TRAVISD
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I have been wanting to do NORRA for quite sometime, but just haven't found a car or truck that I was interested in, or something that was meaningful to me or something with history. There has been a few single seat buggies, but for this event I rather have someone ride along with me. More than a few months back this post appeared here.
http://www.race-dezert.com/forum/threads/is-this-one-of-thetoyota-ppi-trucks.123978/
Is this one of theToyota PPI trucks?
It immediately caught my attention. As soon as I saw the truck I knew what it was. I posted a few things about the history and inquired if it was for sale. In the meantime I got busy with work and life and such, but kept the truck in the back of my mind. That was until a couple of weeks back on whim I sent out a private message to see if they still had the truck and if it was for sale. By the end of the day Ken Lock had responded and we started talking about the truck. He still had it and it was just sitting along side his house. I went out to look at the truck to check its condition, and liked what I saw. A deal was made and last week picked her up and hauled her home.
This truck was built by Randy Fortune for Malcolm Vinje and Mark Hansen. This would be the second Toyota truck they campaigned in 7s. Malcolm and Mark had raced class 5 for years and switched to 7s roughly around the 85 season. Around this time my dad had started to co-drive for them in class 5 and onto 7s. As a nose picking young kid I would be tagging along with my dad to work on the truck, pre-run, and chase it around the deserts of the Southwest and Baja.
Now that I have the truck home, I started test fitting all the engine components (the engine was out) just to make sure I had all the important items that go under the hood. Other than missing a bit of the hardware everything was there and good to go.
This week I have started to disassemble the rear of the truck. Taking pictures, bagging and tagging all the items. My goal is to get it get the truck completely apart and get it media blasted to crack check and a fresh coat of paint.
I will be repainting it back to the red and white color scheme of the Toyota, Yokohama, Bosch team colors that it was originally painted for.
http://www.race-dezert.com/forum/threads/is-this-one-of-thetoyota-ppi-trucks.123978/
Is this one of theToyota PPI trucks?
It immediately caught my attention. As soon as I saw the truck I knew what it was. I posted a few things about the history and inquired if it was for sale. In the meantime I got busy with work and life and such, but kept the truck in the back of my mind. That was until a couple of weeks back on whim I sent out a private message to see if they still had the truck and if it was for sale. By the end of the day Ken Lock had responded and we started talking about the truck. He still had it and it was just sitting along side his house. I went out to look at the truck to check its condition, and liked what I saw. A deal was made and last week picked her up and hauled her home.
This truck was built by Randy Fortune for Malcolm Vinje and Mark Hansen. This would be the second Toyota truck they campaigned in 7s. Malcolm and Mark had raced class 5 for years and switched to 7s roughly around the 85 season. Around this time my dad had started to co-drive for them in class 5 and onto 7s. As a nose picking young kid I would be tagging along with my dad to work on the truck, pre-run, and chase it around the deserts of the Southwest and Baja.
Now that I have the truck home, I started test fitting all the engine components (the engine was out) just to make sure I had all the important items that go under the hood. Other than missing a bit of the hardware everything was there and good to go.
This week I have started to disassemble the rear of the truck. Taking pictures, bagging and tagging all the items. My goal is to get it get the truck completely apart and get it media blasted to crack check and a fresh coat of paint.
I will be repainting it back to the red and white color scheme of the Toyota, Yokohama, Bosch team colors that it was originally painted for.