1987 toyota Custom Cab

Well i usually hang out at the older toyota site, and until last night I had never heard of the custom cab. It takes a little getting used to. Not sure if I am there yet. Anything Toyota 4x4 turns my crank. It is a problem I need to seek help for. Until then this is the newest toy I have brought home. I was actually able to drive it, and I have to say, it rode pretty nice. It is a 1987 Toyota 4x4, with 190000 on the clock. I it came from California, overall real solid. I have not yet ran the numbers, but the person i bought it from said it was a turbo truck, but was removed some time ago. As it sits it has the original 22r, with a carburetor, and 5 speed transmission .
Just thought it was so unique that I would share it with you.

 

when I first bought my new Toyota, a 1986 4runner, I test drove a custom cab. It was cool but the turning radius was huge.

Many of the custom cabs were turbo. If it was a turbo hopefully it still has the R-151 trans, those are the most desired of the early manuals

 

What was the reason behind the cab design??

 

What does the inside look like? Length of the bed?
Cool find, thanks for sharing!

 

I dont know if the custom cabs were turbo or not. If a truck was converted to a carb truck from an EFI or Turbo, if not done correctly, is a butcher job. The wiring harnesses are nothing the same. Fuel tanks are different as well. I have converted trucks from one fuel style to the other and it is a big job. A few pictures of the wiring harness and I could probably tell which it really is. To do a conversion back to factory specs is not easy to do and probably most could not do it with out showing some evidence of it being converted correctly.

 

I was going to do a little cleaning before taking this shot, but here it is. the interior has the bench seat in back, i think the purpose of these were to make the quad cab available in the states.like the early dodge and chevy quads, terribly awkward looking, but practical .
That is interesting about the carb swap, i did not look close but it appears to be well done, i will get a pic soon. I read on the Internet most were turbo, but in the pictures i have seen one was the 3.0, the rest non turbo. The transmission on the data tag is a g52, when i looked it up it showed it was used in 84-85, The w56 in 87.
I love to research my hobbies, but most will probably be forgotten in a year or so.

 

I believe that this was before the existence of the "XTra cab"

Why they (Toyota USA) never brought over the DOUBLE cabs (they exist in that body style - over seas) is not clear to me
Probably Tarrif related (i.e. why many 4Runners had the rear seats added in the USA)