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It’s a Toyota, but has AHC.Lexus or Toyota?
15K? run away
It's a crappy situation either way you look at it... wire wheeling/POR/Fluid film is a MAJOR pain in the ass. I mean you really must love your car and have alot of free time (not to mention skill/tools/patience/and not mind doing dirty work) to do a decent job and truly get to "all the nooks and crannies" which you won't anyways until you strip the entire car apart and have every single part media blasted, etc.Looks like surface rust. Wire wheel it, apply por15 and a yearly fluid film inside all the nooks and crannies. It should last a long time. Or plan to spend a bunch of time chasing cars all over the country, putting deposits on unseen cars while taking off work to catch a flight to some far off southern location.
It's a crappy situation either way you look at it... wire wheeling/POR/Fluid film is a MAJOR pain in the ass. I mean you really must love your car and have alot of free time (not to mention skill/tools/patience/and not mind doing dirty work) to do a decent job and truly get to "all the nooks and crannies" which you won't anyways until you strip the entire car apart and have every single part media blasted, etc.
And +1 it seems these 100s sell pretty quick in the salt free states, so if that's the route you're choosing, just know you need to act fast because there are plenty of other people trying to buy the same truck you are.
I recommend trying your luck and buying a southern one sight unseen, even if issues come up (like accident evidence, poor body work, mechanical neglect, etc.), all that stuff can be fixed. Nothing really fixes the amount of rust that truck has that you posted. That ain't no surface rust lol.
Additionally, you would want to plan on putting a traditional suspension like OME in a vehicle like that one. Ahc will not be worth fooling with. I didn’t see anything super bad other then the tank skid, but they rust quick. This is just the reality of the rust belt. Every one buying these pristine southern trucks and bringing them north, what are you expecting? With in a few years if you drive them in the salt they will rust and it doesn’t matter if you keep them washed. All my cars have rusted here and I’m ocd about cleaning the salt off. You could just put them in storage for winter, kind of would defeat the purpose of a capable 4wd.