GD it! So YOURE the one!!!! No wonder I cant buy any in town....

 

picked up a red one last night...

 

you're not lookin' in the right places. the 1st gen body style is arguably the 3rd most popular toyota truck in the toy dept. after the old and new FJs.

here's a cool one:



to find the older, 80s trucks, search "hilux".

 

so here's what ive been up to.

chopped off the roof, sanded everything down, added wood planks in the bad, painted it o.d green, trimmed the bed (to look like my truck) and painted it silver to look like alluminum.

(noticed the trimmed front valance)













still have to add the rest pof the "wood planks" (tooth picks ) wouldve used popsicle sticks, but they werent the right scale....and the fender wells are geting green paint to look like my ammo cans.

 

you need to use some acid and make holes in the side of the bed..
and then use a piece of tube out the side for another sweet exhaust stack..

 

i"ll keep that in mind when i get my next mtachbox 4runner

 

that's fantastic. now cut open the back wall of your cab to match the little one!

 

i found some really awesome customized 4Runners today. kudos to the guy who crafted these up. i really wish i had the steady hands and patience to do this kind of thing.

this one was cut and converted into a standard cab pickup.


this one was custom painted and light bar (a paper clip!) added:


and this thing is just sick. how many of us wish we could do this kind of conversion so well on a real truck!!!



mad props to the customizer!

this one appears to have been done by a different guy who swapped the body to a new chassis. longer and wider wheelbase, awesome!

 

one more; i didn't check if this is already posted, but it's really cool. saw it for sale on fleabay. again, really great work by the customizer:

 

you can see with this one, a lot of hard work to create a pickup bed and back window....


...because here's another great pic i found of one with the top cut off, and you can see there's a huge chunk of metal inside the tailgate for the rear fastening point and the cab is wide open typical of a 4Runner:

EDIT: I HATE WHEN PEOPLE DELETE THEIR PHOTOBUCKET PICS. sorry these pics vanished so i deleted the dead links.

of course, custom body fab is less work at 1:64 scale than 1:1 scale, but still, awesome creativity and craftsmanship by these guys.

 

here's the green forest ranger version.

 

NEED 2nd gen!!

 

while the 2nd gen PICKUP body (like '81) is probably the most popular toyota toy truck body available...


...there are lots of 2nd gen 4Runner toys to be found on the web. sometimes you have to search "hilux surf", but there's a bunch, including some very cool 1:25 scale models. google IMAGE search "4runner tamiya" or "4runner majorette" to see some examples quickly.

 

got this at Wal-Mart yesterday....

 

I was able to find my self one of each color

and also bought a couple old 1st gens of ebay like I used to have as a kid

 

Not sure what gen this one is (no fenders) but looks freaking sweet...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Matchbox-MB7...item519d20e797

 

 

For those of you that have followed this post there is a red version out now. I came back from work one day and my wife had bought my son one and she has since bought me two. One of them will stay in the wrapper and the other one I am going to salvage tires and parts from his other broken hot wheels and matchbox cars to do a "build up" to match how my current toyota looks.

I am in the middle of packing my house up to move from alaska to texas so I dont have them available to take pictures of. I will as soon as we get to texas and we can unpack.

 

FYI, If you are talking about the red 4runner with the gold stripes, it has been out as long as the light blue one, if not longer. Take a peak back in this thread, you will see many of them.