Believe it or not, some people like 2WD in one of these. It made it a lot easier for me to get a Triumph into the bed.

Good point. The only reason I owned two Toyota pickups is that my '84's frame wouldn't pass inspection.

That’sa few assumptions you're making...first, I did plenty of work on trucks like this in my driveway, and sometimes in upstate New York winters. Second, if you have a family you're probably not buying a standard cab pickup. Third, buying a $2800 truck doesn't always mean you can only afford a $2800 truck. It often…

The fact that there are some people who can't do the work that something like this might need doesn't mean nobody can do the work, and the people who can, see this truck as a deal. I never swapped an engine on my Toyota pickups but I did change a radiator, clutch slave cylinder, and starter, did a front brake job, and…

Those people have no business looking at 28 year old trucks, but there's enough of us "other people" to make this a great deal.

A ‘94 will have a 22RE. Seems like nitpicking but the RE goes through timing chains and tensioners, if you use OEM. Not a deal breaker. I had an ‘84 and a ‘93. I sought out this spec, 2WD 4 cyl 5 spd, standard cab, for simplicity, economy, low bed height and maximum bed length, and they gave me exactly what I was…

$600-800 trucks don’t have wheels, and sometimes engines.

It’s a Toyota and this is 2022.

The original question was what CLASSIC cars aren’t worth collecting. The date on the build tag is not the sole qualifier for a classic car. A Chevette was never classic, nor a Mustang II, so what do they have to do with this list?

A rusty Tucker running on five cylinders is...a Tucker. Although since they're almost all accounted for, that's probably a bad example.

Any time I see somebody comment "too many doors," I think, maybe, if you only have one friend.

To me this is really about what happened to the word "classic." When car collecting started, only rich snobs did it, and they started a club with rules. Among the rules were some about what could be considered a classic. It boiled down to a few elite makes and/or coachbuilt cars. A Packard could get by with a nice…

Yes! GM sent three Corvairs and a support team, and at least one Corvair made it all the way. I believe one is still in the jungle.

True story, back in 1989 I had a roommate who had a ‘70s Mercedes 220, or whatever looked like a 240D but ran on gasoline. Then one day she came home in a red 4-door Chevette. Said she got sick of having hubcaps and hood ornaments stolen. I lost track of her after she moved out but I don't know of any trouble she had…

Just accept that this is who you are, and get a piece of real estate that accommodates it.

I was in college in Alaska in 1986 when a drifter walked from Little Diomede (US) to Big Diomede (USSR) and was promptly captured by the Soviets. He was a little lighter than a minivan, and I wouldn't be surprised if the ice freezes thinner now than 36 years ago, but also an American driving a Chrysler across Russia…

The main ingredient in the Dollar General Frankfurtermobile.

I'd like to say that with hypermiling, at least you're using your car as transportation rather than just driving around showing off for kicks, not that there's anything wrong with that, but then you have people who go out and hypermile just to show how little fuel they use, and they're not even trying to get anywhere,…

So get a '60s Imperial. They're famous for being banned from demolition derbies because they soak up damage like a Sham-Wow!

Any VW from before about 1970, I say put the stock engine in a display case and bolt up a fresh 1600. It only takes a couple of hours to swap back.