So I traded my 97 4Runner for two rigs, a built Yota and a tow thing. On the ride home the tow thing broke down twice! Luckily my friend really wants it and bought it off me when we finally got both rigs back. The plan is to swap a new body on the old chassis and then have some fun with it! SO here's some pics of the progress, we've hit some unexpected snags but hopefully things will get worked out before my annual camping trip to Naches.

Wow....now that is a leap of faith..hope every thing works out...

That's not the Toyota from the famed Top Gear episodes is it?

It's going to get an Xtra cab and a fore/aft bob to fit everything on the regular cab shortbed frame. I was hoping to get a 3rd Gen xtra cab (89-95) but haven't been able to find one yet. Looks like now I'm going to go with an 87 Xtra cab that I found for cheap, I'll just have to make it somewhat nice!

It's definitely a pretty serious project, but it's a good way for me to get more in tune with the truck and learn wrenching/fab skills. I'll keep you guys updated when we start to hit it again.

I don't think it's quite 'sexually suggestive', maybe if there was a little more side boob!

3.  A thread, post, or image is considered inappropriate if they contain one or more of the following: 

• Any content that isn't appropriate for a grade school classroom.
• Any content that promotes mudding, driving off-trail, intentionally damaging nature, or any other content that violates Tread Lightly principles.
• Sexually suggestive topics
• Provocatively dressed persons
• Vulgar or crude topics
• Brand or product bashing
• Any material that could be considered discriminatory in any way including but not limited to racial, sexual, religion or nationality
• Mocking others or acting superior to others (whether "others" is on this website or not doesn't matter).
• Vehicles with a lot of body damage
• Vehicles that look like they might be off-trail (whether they are or aren't)
• Vehicles doing resource damage
• Sexually explicit content 
• Irrresponsible behavior (E.g. unsafe recovery techniques)
• Drinking and driving
• Political or religious statement

What about this truck? Brand discrimination?

Let's be entirely fair, neither was my truck! Below is what I hope to return it to, either sourcing a 1st Gen cab and cutting out the back and making it into a Trekker style truck with a soft top or if I can find a decent 3rd Gen Xtra cab going witth that and a double bobbed bed. This is the biggest project I have ever attempted and I thought that it could ad some worthwhile content to the forum.

I can see where both Craig and Rus are coming from. I think a fair compromise would be deleting the pic of the truck posing on the tree stump in the front yard. I have seen first hand where a picture has been taken out of context and used a fodder for an anti-offroad group. The whole no damaged vehicle pic is a gray area, on one hand having a bunch of pics of trucks all beat up and mangled adds to the stereotype that we(offroaders) are all rednecks that don't care about damage to their trucks or the enviornment. The other hand is like Rus, taking a ole beat up ride and restoring it or say starting a thread on repairing some severe trail damage.