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I just happen to own one of those indestructible Toyota diesel pickups that Top Gear tried to kill and failed. It's an '84, makes the yellow one at the beginning of this thread look pristine and it gets driven almost daily. Bed is rotting away, frame has scab plates in areas because the frame is boxed and rusts from the inside out and until the frame rot was noticed, I had no problems hooking up a 5000 lb trailer to it and going wherever I needed to go. 21 lbs of boost gives it plenty of hp/torque to go down the road and a brake controller helps get everything stopped. Empty, I pulled Vail Pass (11,000 feet) in Colorado at 70 mph. Great little trucks, dirt simple and after 270,000 miles, still 100% reliable. Just did a 1400 mile road trip last week. But I sure do get a lot grief from co-workers for driving such a clapped out truck. I think this is it's last summer before I pull the engine and put it in something else.
Adam
Adam
