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To: Bryanw92

My first truck was a little Datsun pickup...I think it was an 79 or 80 model (could be wrong about that but it was around then)...

A great little truck and it served me well when I was building my house back then.


48 posted on 12/03/2014 6:11:05 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

It probably is still running somewhere in Asia or Central America. True story. I am on my third Toyota Tacoma(89, 99, 2012). When I sold the 1989, I had two guys that wanted to buy it and ship it overseas. One shipped them to Central America and South America. The other one shipped them to Asia. These guys were only interested in Toyotas and Nissan/Datsuns. Nothing else. They were also primarily interested in trucks that would not pass inspection in the US due to rust/frame issues. They told me they loaded them in containers and would sell them for triple the price in those markets.

Not long after that, the war in Afghanistan broke out. You would see on the news bunches of guys riding around in our pickups with a machine gun mounted in the back. This led me to go on Zazzle and make a bumper sticker that said:

TOYOTA TACOMA
Official Vehicle of the Taliban

Some people did not see the humor in that bumper sticker. Some thought it was hilarious. I figured that some folks just do not have a sense of humor.


63 posted on 12/03/2014 6:28:58 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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