Moving to the West Coast - need a new truck!

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sparx
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Moving to the West Coast - need a new truck!

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Hey everyone - what a friendly forum this seems to be!
I'm an Aucklander doing the big move in the first week of May down to the West Coast to go work on a new mine shaft just out of Blackball.
I used to have an old fj40 which was great out on Muriwai, Piha and bumbling around in the forest but when I move I want to get something a bit more substantial - Ideally one of those stonking supra powered hilux surfs - something that will handle hard club runs and possibly a little more.
Budget wise I'm pretty much open minded (depends how much change I have when I come back from Thailand) but I am only interested in Toyotas later than 1980 and they have to be road legal.. call me stubborn if you like but I have owned post 1980 Toyotas all my life.... I'm just a Toyota guy.

I would happily buy any of the following

Supra powered hilux or surf (pref double cab hilux so I can rip the wellside off)
Lexus powered hilux or surf
2.4 turbo diesel hilux or surf provided its got turbo timer and 3" exhaust pref with a recent engine rebuild
2.8 or 3.0 turbo diesel hilux or surf
Turbo diesel landcruiser prado

If anyone has anything that fits the bill it would be greatly appreciated if you could let me know - as of Saturday I will be in South East Asia until I start on the mine in May which is when I will need to buy the truck..
Oh yes and I have a 1992 Toyota Camry CSX station wagon 260KM in good cond if anyone wants it as a part trade on the truck... I'm also a registered spark so I can rewire your house/car/boat as part trade also if it's better for you than a wad of bills. (like I said I'm pretty flexible on this ;-) ).

Cheers
-Matt
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Post by SupraLux »

Welcome aboard Matt... and you've come to the right place for Supra powered Hiluxes... there are a few about on here...

Not aware of any for sale apart from a balck surf I saw on trademe the other day at around $5k from momory, and can't help with anything on your shopping list - but if you want to build one up there are threads galore on here to help and several pretty clued up motor-boffins in the Toymota camp as well...

Good luck in the search

Steve
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Thanks Steve.. looks like you're the man to talk to about springs, axles and locking diffs if I decide to scratch build... which may be the case as my 4x4 budget looks like its going to increase considerably due to some recent developments.
I'm on a plane to S.E.A tomorrow so I won't be able to check this thread for quite a while so if anyone out there knows of one for sale please just link it here and ill follow it up when I get back, thanks heaps!

-Matt
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