Not mine but WOW! 82 Pickup almost mint

[85_4RNR]

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?ct=u&car_id=277293930&dealer_id=595909&car_year=1982&rdm=1271700176944&lastStartYear=1981&model=PICKUP&num_records=25&systime=&make2=&highlightFirstMakeModel=&start_year=1981&keywordsfyc=&keywordsrep=&engine=&certified=&body_code=0&fuel=&awsp=false&search_type=both&distance=0&marketZipError=false&search_lang=en&sownerid=562365&showZipError=n&make=TOYOTA&keywords_display=&color=&page_location=findacar%3A%3Aispsearchform&min_price=&drive=&default_sort=priceDESC&seller_type=b&max_mileage=&style_flag=1&sort_type=priceDESC&address=49738&advanced=&end_year=1989&doors=&transmission=&max_price=&cardist=1076&standard=false

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pretty mint. but wtf is up with the vin being screwed on. 99% of ones i've seen are riveted. Wrecked???

[NorCalToy]

on my 82 the VIN plate under the hood is screwed on

[Gixxer Jon]

probably was stolen, Taken to mexico and repainted then found another vin and screwed it on...

Pretty funny for being such a clean truck and they didnt even take the time to get matching screws for the vin plate... LOL

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yeah something is up with it. one looks like a honda dash screw one looks like a light screw. idk but something is shady. I have personally not seen many gold yota's and with root beer brown on top it?

[86bobbedtoy]

first gens are all screwed on.

[Gixxer Jon]

yeah something is up with it. one looks like a honda dash screw one looks like a light screw. idk but something is shady. I have personally not seen many gold yota's and with root beer brown on top it?

Its the black and tan.... lol

[kneedownnate]

It looks very clean but... in my experience, dealers are good at slapping a cheap paint job over bad bondo on an otherwise decent or beat up rig, asking way too much and finding a sucker to buy it.  I've seen a few first gens, the few I can remember off the top of my head anyway, sold for too much at used car dealers.  They all "looked good" for a little while, but I easily found bondo on one and noticed another looked like it hadn't been painted in 20 years after not even 3.

As for the vin plate, they coulda replaced the cab at some point and just transfered the plate.  I replaced the entire dash in my 81 2wd and did the same, screwed the plate from the old dash onto the new dash, but I think I may have used matching screws 

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use the good old magnet test. thats what I do on anything I'm buying even if its just a 200 parts car. Need to know whats metal and whats glass or bondo'd

[kneedownnate]

After looking through more of the pics, it does look pretty clean all the way around.

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Its the black and tan.... lol

sorry I'm color blind hah.

[Gixxer Jon]

sorry I'm color blind hah.

your not color blind.. it is gold. But i was just stating the theme of the paint job...

[fj-rankenstein]

definitelly the vin was either taken off for repainting or its not the original vin..  i have owned 5 first gens and currently have 3 and the vins are all rivited..  my dads truck is rivited and the my buddies two trucks are rivited..  obviously something is up here...  still not a bad truck..

[wakkjobb]

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My 84s VIN is riveted but the ex's 79 was screwed on; the world may never know.