Are you a manufacturer fanatic?

[Mullen]

I used to considered myself a GM guy, but my list is dominated by Toyotas. When it came time for a new truck, I chose a Tundra even after considering and driving all the full size trucks at the time.

84 Toyota Pickup - single cab, long bed, manual tans, windows, and steering. This truck made me a man.
86 Toyota Pickup - paid $300 for it and it ran like a top. Chopped it up to build a race truck, never finished it.
89 Toyota Pickup - beater prerunner. Paid $4k for a hack job as a dumb high school kid. Even worse, I sold my Camaro to buy this piece of shit. The only shining light is had I not done that, I never would have been a fabricator and likely wouldn’t know any of you fine gentlemen.
67 Camaro - first car I bought with my own money and the only car I regret selling.
08 Charger RT - first car I bought new. Couldn’t afford it and faked pay stubs to get it. Real Charger level shit.
08 Charger SRT8 - first car I bought after graduation.
95 Ram 2500 Cummins - it was cherry and I would have kept it if it was 4wd.
95 C1500 - possibly my favorite truck I’ve own. Started out slammed with a crazy paint job, ended up as a super clean fakerunner.
94 C1500 - solid prerunner, no cage though.
91 Explorer - my aunt gave me this. Only Ford I’ve ever owned, though I currently have a 21 F150 work truck.
11 Tundra - sold to buy a ring for the now-wife.
05 350Z - got the car for free from my bro in law. Built it into a decent track car and would have kept it if I had the space when I bought the V.

Currently own:
01 Tundra - built prerunner. I’ve had the truck since 2016 and it works well.
14 Tundra - bought new and probably will never sell it. If I sell my 01, this truck will get a blower and possibly LT.
10 CTS-V - blown, manual, sedan. By far my favorite vehicle I’ve owned.

 

[Cleandezert]

I used to considered myself a GM guy, but my list is dominated by Toyotas. When it came time for a new truck, I chose a Tundra even after considering and driving all the full size trucks at the time.

84 Toyota Pickup - single cab, long bed, manual tans, windows, and steering. This truck made me a man.
86 Toyota Pickup - paid $300 for it and it ran like a top. Chopped it up to build a race truck, never finished it.
89 Toyota Pickup - beater prerunner. Paid $4k for a hack job as a dumb high school kid. Even worse, I sold my Camaro to buy this piece of shit. The only shining light is had I not done that, I never would have been a fabricator and likely wouldn’t know any of you fine gentlemen.
67 Camaro - first car I bought with my own money and the only car I regret selling.
08 Charger RT - first car I bought new. Couldn’t afford it and faked pay stubs to get it. Real Charger level shit.
08 Charger SRT8 - first car I bought after graduation.
95 Ram 2500 Cummins - it was cherry and I would have kept it if it was 4wd.
95 C1500 - possibly my favorite truck I’ve own. Started out slammed with a crazy paint job, ended up as a super clean fakerunner.
94 C1500 - solid prerunner, no cage though.
91 Explorer - my aunt gave me this. Only Ford I’ve ever owned, though I currently have a 21 F150 work truck.
11 Tundra - sold to buy a ring for the now-wife.
05 350Z - got the car for free from my bro in law. Built it into a decent track car and would have kept it if I had the space when I bought the V.

Currently own:
01 Tundra - built prerunner. I’ve had the truck since 2016 and it works well.
14 Tundra - bought new and probably will never sell it. If I sell my 01, this truck will get a blower and possibly LT.
10 CTS-V - blown, manual, sedan. By far my favorite vehicle I’ve owned.

i love the comment about the 08 charger RT. lol

 

[Fenix Motorsports]

I'm a GM guy through and through even my jeep has a GM engine, although I seem to work on mostly tacomas for some reason, most of my R&D has been put into one of my two personal trucks, although I recently got a 2nd Gen tacoma to work with from a close friend of mine, I also should be getting an OBS F150 to do some R&D on as a partial trade for building the tacoma.

'94 Corvette - Clapped out, 6 speed manual needed a rebuild but no parts availability/expensive, sold to purchase the sierra

'07C GMC Sierra 1500 4x4 Z71 - Current daily/work truck, basically just hauls steel and drops off packages, parts runs.

'74 C10 Cheyenne Super - Resto still on progress, haven't had time to work on it with client cars and trying to keep up with production and R&D

'70 Jeep CJ5 - Still in a million pieces, have full drivetrain, need shocks, need fixture table to build chassis and some other small parts/pieces

'72 Triumph Spitfire - Huge POS, hate the wiring in these cars, the whole thing has 3 fuses and no relays, 1200cc tractor engine with 60ish hp in a sports car, oh and they like to blow up if you rev them too much, I have a complete 3SGE/trans setup for it but need time to put everything in the car

'16 Polaris XP Turbo - Got this thing as a cheap desert beater, has 6300 miles and is pretty clapped aesthetically, I pretty much just prepped the stock suspension and rebuilt the clutches, and built a cage for it and called it a day, although I am now redoing part of the cage that I wasn't huge on when I built it initially.

'01 Kawasaki KX250 - Back when the KX250 was cool, now its a four stroke. I love this bike, but the reality is I am a desert/singletrack enduro rider and this thing sucks for that. Its geared too short for the fast doubletrack sections and its geared too tall for the slow singletrack sections, also the powerband hits like my old Banshee.

 

[Heer_O]

I've owned numerous Ford , and GMs, a few Mopars, a few VWs, one Kia and one Toyota. Guess which one I will never own again. TOYOTA! I've never in my life had a vehicle with so many problems. And I genuinely don't know if it was because I thought would be "reliable" and it turned out to be the biggest POS or if somehow I managed to get the one that failed every QC inspection at the factory. But I'm more familiar with GMs so that's where I think I'm gonna stay for a lil while.

 

[4xFoorOffroad]

In order:
1981 Toyota Pickup
1984 4runner
1997 Tacoma
2008 Tacoma
1998 Tacoma
1997 4runner

oh and a 93 pos fast and the furious aborted honda civic and a 2008 Honda Fit

 

[Prerunsilverado]

In order:
1965 VW Bug
1999 Silverado
1996 Ranger
1996 Ranger
2019 KTM 500
1999 Explorer

I have all but the bug. All still run and get driven. I wont sell them (the trucks arn't worth anything anyways).

Ill never get an electric vehicle.

 

[Prerunsilverado]

I've owned numerous Ford , and GMs, a few Mopars, a few VWs, one Kia and one Toyota. Guess which one I will never own again. TOYOTA! I've never in my life had a vehicle with so many problems. And I genuinely don't know if it was because I thought would be "reliable" and it turned out to be the biggest POS or if somehow I managed to get the one that failed every QC inspection at the factory. But I'm more familiar with GMs so that's where I think I'm gonna stay for a lil while.

Have you had any recalls on your GM stuff? It seams like every month there is a recall letter for them on our new work trucks here at Frontier Fence. Quality Chevrolet charges for the scanning of the computer to find what codes are being thrown even with the letter clearly stating what the problem and solution is! This includes the 1500 gassers up to the 6500 diesels.

Seams like Chevy trucks have gone down in quality since Covid. Anyone else seen this?

 

[Heer_O]

Have you had any recalls on your GM stuff? It seams like every month there is a recall letter for them on our new work trucks here at Frontier Fence. Quality Chevrolet charges for the scanning of the computer to find what codes are being thrown even with the letter clearly stating what the problem and solution is! This includes the 1500 gassers up to the 6500 diesels.

Seams like Chevy trucks have gone down in quality since Covid. Anyone else seen this?

Nothing on mine, other than the airbag recall crap. In full disclosure, the news one I own is a 2013 Denali. But I genuinely had more issues with my one Toyota than I've had with ALL my GMs and Ford's combined. And only had I issue with one VW bug I had. And that was 100% the fault of the dude who "rebuilt" the motor.

And yeah it's seems like ALL manufacturers have gone to shit the past few years.

 

[Heer_O]

I guess I can list everything I've had over the years:
1977 El Camino
1973 El Camino
1962 Bel Air
1967 Camaro
1977 Corvette
1991 Astro
1999 Yukon
2001 Silverado
2005 Tahoe
2007 Denali
2009 Suburban
2013 Denali
1969 Dart
1976 Dart Swinger
2002 Dodge Ram
1987 Mustang N/B
1989 Escort 4 dr hatchback 1.8 Dohc swapped
1989 Taurus SHO
1993 Bronco
1954 Baja Bug
1967 Baja Bug
2011 Kia Optima

And last but not least
1997 4Runner

I think that's it lol

 

[4xFoorOffroad]

I've owned numerous Ford , and GMs, a few Mopars, a few VWs, one Kia and one Toyota. Guess which one I will never own again. TOYOTA! I've never in my life had a vehicle with so many problems. And I genuinely don't know if it was because I thought would be "reliable" and it turned out to be the biggest POS or if somehow I managed to get the one that failed every QC inspection at the factory. But I'm more familiar with GMs so that's where I think I'm gonna stay for a lil while.

I use to follow your build on DR, I know 90's Toyota's can have some difficult to repair and diagnose stuff like evap codes, no-starts, etc. along with weak points like weak spindles, but curious what you exactly had happen, did you have a 3rz or a 5vz? On the flip side I helped a neighbor with a second hand 06 2wd Suburban he neglected and drove into the ground and a V6 Charger that we had to syphon all the gas out of and replace fuel pumps that he had parked on bad paperwork. There were things I liked about both of them like a shrader valve on the fuel line on the Chevy and a plastic fuel tank that makes it so just replacing a fuel pump or two is all you ever need to do on the Charger.

Each oem has plusses and minuses out there for sure.