Topic: 1st gen 4Runners ???

[BigMike]

Anyone have more info on this?



I read that its the 1st gen 4Runner and the 84-89 models are actually "2nd gen"

Were these ever in the states??

[88runner]

this is not a runner, it's a trekker.
basicly it's a pickup with the back of the cab cut out and the bed welded to it.
then there's a shell over the bed.
If I remember right, they were made by another company then toyota .

[SWAMPER]

88 is right here goes a link of 4Runner history

http://www.off-road.com/toyota/4runner/history.html

[SuperDave]

My friends dad used to have one these a long, long ,long time ago! It was yellow. Very rare.

[burnyota]

didn't they have glass beds and top?

[m44offroad]

the trekker as i recall was only made in 81 and 82 there was a small number of them made (less than 2000) and somthing like 90% where sold on colorado the attached pics are of one that came in to work about a month ago

[m44offroad]

i forgot to say that it was  winnibego that went to toyota with the idea

[YotaYota]

that beige one is really nice 

[mudguts]

that beige one is really nice 

I agree, lots of potential 

ps I think dirtbag may have had a line on one of these 

[Skinny_Pedal]

i saw a black one in goldendale last year. dam it was nice. i would love to own one. i thought another company besided winni made them to?

[derek]

there is also another one called the trailblazer.

derek

[88runner]

there was 3 of them

trekker trailblazer and wolverine

[FIREBALL]

I've seen a couple of those around here. The trekker and the Trail Blazer. One of them has the stock bed with some kind of a filler piece from the cab to bed, and down the side where the bed lip is. I think I saw one of them for sale the other day. It was set up on 35's or 37's, i'll cruise back by that side of town and see if it's still there and let you all know.
I didn't know Wolverine made them too. I thought they just took pre 4wd yotas (78 and earlier) and made them 4wd using J#$@ JUNK. The nerve of some people.

[kyle_22r]

from what i've seen, all trekkers were made from '81(and possibly '80) trucks.  they all had the round headlights of a '79-81 truck.  all the trailblazers i've seen had square headlights, like the '82-83 style

never seen a wolverine from after '78 though.  saw a blue one driving down the road a few months back, and saw one up for sale in autotrader a year or 2 ago.  they're cool looking trucks, though they did have dana 20 cases and dana 30 front axles...but what else could you use back in those days?  the only really small 4x4s with an axle that'd fit under a toyota were jeeps.  i'd love to build a '74-78 body style truck into a 4x4...maybe my next project

there's also datsun 620 trucks and chevy LUVs that were converted to 4x4s commercially before their respective companies started cranking them out(isuzu offered a 4x4 luv version starting in '79, nissan in '80? '81??)