It’s bad enough that the seller is trying to pass this monstrosity on to someone else because they can’t be arsed to fix it but then to add insult to injury and ask $26K?? Hard ND at half the price.

Maybe it is just me, but whenever I see a listing where there was an engine swap or some other major rebuild or swap done just 2-3k miles prior, I wonder if the owner is “sick of this POS” and trying to cash out before it strikes their wallet again.

Note to seller:

1. Rock it all summer

WAY too much jank going on here for 20GRR.  GTFO with this shit - maybe for $7,500 and even thats stretching it.

... oh Hail no!

i guess? doesn’t seem like a bad price. as far as the Camaro from yesterday, were you alive yet in 98 Rob? I don’t think any human wore a flat brimmed cap and listened to Poison at the same time.

Hey!!!! This is MY car! I saw this Jalopnik article and my jaw dropped, haha.

I can answer that, as my mother had one of these, with an autotragic no less. It will get 45mpg+ even when being driven like you stole it - and you have to drive it that way, because the powerplant is three chubby hamsters under the hood. It will go 80mph all day long on the highway. Bring noise-cancelling headphones,…

A fine specimen of a car that probably no one wants? Given the market, it really doesn’t seem that crazy of a price. What’s really crazy is how intact the body looks.

Come on, people! That is clean as a whistle and cute as a bug’s ear. So what if it’s a third of the horsepower to which I have become accustomed (and far less than most of you would ever tolerate). But that fuel economy! That sweet frsh Spring-like color!

I (like the voting right now) am borderline. It seems like an OK price. But I guess the question is -

It’s amazing to think that Tahoe — the lake — has been sitting there the entire time that we’ve all been evolving from tree-living poop-flingers to our current state of upright walkers and social media followers.

Drive until it breaks , or if you’re so inclined, wrench like David Tracy until it’s a lost cause. Either way, you’ll likely get your money’s worth before you have to part with it. Or part it out.

Really? It’s an ‘85. How many mile would you like it to have? At certain point, why not just be glad it presents & runs well? 

I’m going with a cautious NP. It’s a project car that needs a little TLC. First order of business would be to remove the abomination in the trunk and ensure that the car’s electrics survived the subwoofer ordeal.

Three-time 4Runner owner here. Yes, they run a long time but a 1990 with 150,000 miles on the clock is not “just getting started in life”. A 2015 with 150,000 miles maybe, but not a 33-year-old truck. It’s like saying a 69-year-old man is just getting started in life because he hasn’t traveled much.

Nothing at all special?

Apparently a repair was made between the time of Rob writing this and today’s post, as the ad states “**Four new tires have just been installed, as well as new door latch switches.” So that’s good, and sounds like the kind of seller you would want to buy from. Not a screaming deal, but NP.

It’s gorgeous. Somebody will bite but I doubt it’ll be one of us. :)