Welp, been on the hunt for a old school toyota 4x for a little while now. I really wanted something that had been well kept, ran like a toyota should. ALL of the 4runners I looked at were either $2-2500 and had too many miles, ALL had supposed rebuilt motors and were very tired...
There were nice rigs out there in the 4-5k range that were what I was looking for, but 4-5k for an stock good running 80's truck is just nuts...
I drove from east springs to crested butte, fountain, manitou, rockrimmond(thanks Mark), and around the springs in general for a nice 4runner on the cheap and stumbled on to this thing.
$1500 paid yesterday for this 1986 4x4 toyota tercel Sr5. The motor is the 3AC, carb, 5 speed plus a granny gear. 159 rounds on the girl and EVERYTHING works, and it works great. From the a/c to the electronics it runs better than it deserves.
Very solid on the road, keeps up with traffic just fine. These things have 4.10 gears and it easily got to 60 for me on powers.
The pictures don't do justice for the condition of the interior, headliner/dash/seats/carpet are in crazy good shape.
Seriously looks re-done it's soo nice-none of it has been re-done im told.
I know, im not going to tackle the trails at penrose. ha/ or go through eagle rock without making the poor girl yelp. But, I plan on throwing a nice roof rack on for my mountain bike and tinting the window to make it a nice driver. Also plan on some aggresive tires, looks like I can use some generic spacers for a lift up front and some xj coils in the rear for a 2-3" lift.
Good chance i'll just run some aggresive tires for now and see what I can get in to
Because my goals were to get a well kept exploration vehicle, I will be happly plus..... I think I got something that will suprise people offroad if I drive it right
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Looking forward to seeing it in action.
