There's a Top Gear episode where they try to destroy a Toyota truck. Of course it's all contrived for the show but it's still fun.
Allan On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, at 5:32 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > Buddy of the youngest son has the domestic equivalent of the HiLux from the > early 80s. He’s a water treatment guy at the Grand Canyon. The truck has over > 400k on it and looks like it, but it still runs like new. He maintains it > well and says it’s never left him stranded. Youngest son got to learn how to > drive a stick in it. > > -D > > > On Aug 20, 2021, at 5:04 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > I had an '87 Toyota pickup, 4WD, 22RE engine. Engine and drivetrain was > > bulletproof. The body sheet metal on the other had was extremely > > rust-prone. Probably would have held up well in a desert though. > > > > Allan > > > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, at 4:31 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote: > >> I had a 1970 Toyota Hilux back in about 1974-75. It was a beater but it > >> didn't cause a whole lot of trouble. A good little truck but little was > >> the word. Small cab and small box. > >> It was the one with the turn signals mounted on top of the front fenders > >> and was essentially avocado green. Some previous owner had pulled the > >> original seat and installed bucket seats out of a VW bug and it was not > >> an improvement. > >> > >> > >> On 20/08/2021 2:15 PM, Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes wrote: > >>> When I grew up in Greece, the lowlife gypsies who would rent their > >>> children out to beg in the streets and pick pocket the tourists drove the > >>> nasty hilux and Datsun pickup trucks. Now it’s the taliban. Either way > >>> the trucks seem to appeal to the lowest form of human garbage. > >>> > >>> Sent from my iPhone > >>> > >>>> On Aug 20, 2021, at 2:54 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> "So reliable even the Taliban drives them!” > >>>> > >>>> -D > >>>> > >>>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > >> > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
