Hi from NOCO

[gearheart]

Hey all. Noob from Loveland, CO here. Long time follower but I figured I would get myself an account so I can ask some questions here and there. Just bought a house with a decent 2 car garage but am looking to build a shop in the spring. My back yard has plenty of room since I'm in the middle of a cul-de-sac that backs to a dead end street. Also luckily, my neighbor to the west's house was once owned by a contractor who did it up bigtime and already built a shop out back. When he did he had the sidewalk cut with a slope so he could pull cars in and the owners of my house at the time must have had the same people cut theirs. So I have a nice big gate and a pull in to a gravel patch currently:

Anyway.. until the shop plans go into full effect the current garage is in the process of awesomification... It was a pretty good blank canvas to start with and now I have two benches in full effect:

Closeup on the corner bench:

and the other toyota.. the main project.. in bare metal and under close inspection from my apprentice mechanic:

That's all for now. I'll be around.. picking many brains

Thanks,

Ian

 

[uniballer]

I just hauled a 71 helix last year. They dont make them like that anymore!

 

[gearheart]

I just hauled a 71 helix last year. They dont make them like that anymore!

It's Hilux.. 72 RN22 to be exact. Yours was an RN15... the one I really wanted but couldn't pass this one up. It needs a title yet but once that's square then it will be dropped 2in and receive some awesome rip-off 14in bbs gold mesh rims with white letter tires. My plan is to make it look like the pit truck of an under 2 liter trans-am team from the mid-70s. Like it got all the parts that came off the race car We'll see how close I get.

 

[Fitzgerald]

Welcome!

Love the Toyota's.

 

[gearheart]

Welcome!

Love the Toyota's.

Thanks! It's really a disease at this point.. I want to do something else in my life other than replace rust.