Thats the real difference. You can sell near every bolt on a trashed toyota.
You know how there's a certain plow guy who has a propensity to run his mouth forgetting that everyone in the room has the experience to call bullshit on his bullshit? Well that's what your dumb left coast ass just did.
You can sell every bolt on a Toyota for the same reason that junkyards can't keep "100k and it ran when we got it" quality Nissan CVT or Hyundai/Kia 4-banger on the shelf but are tripping over all the Prius CVTs and Honda 4-bangers that nobody needs because they don't blow up.
There are just so few of those trucks left that every part is worth gold to some piece of shit person who'd trying to keep theirs still on the road.
I've bought Lesbaru parts from fucking Latvia. Are you really so stupid as to think I don't understand this dynamic?
Your life path is more or less predicated on the fact that stupidity hurts far too little. Both for you and your customers.
You're like the driveshaft equivalent of a meathead beat cop. You're just half a step ahead of Deepak the clutch dumping steering wheel holder. It's pretty indicative of where you stand in the world that, much like the meathead cop, the only people who give you a lick of respect are the dumb old boomers who've been indoctrinated with small business worship.
Most of the Rangers I pick up with the loader forks do that too. The only difference is no one wants them before they're fed to the shredder where as the export guys are fighting over the junk Toyotas to ship overseas.
There's 10x as many Rangers still on the road. No need to pick them over because so much shit is still in production. Nobody is picking them clean for the same reason no dismantler is stupid enough to pull and shelve GMT800 headlights.
Tacomas, toyotas, 4runners will be in classic car auctions soon
History repeats itself. Look at what all the worthless boomers who we should have pushed off a cliff wound up driving prices up on.
It wasn't the reliable, practical everyday cars of their generation. It was the high strung status symbol garbage and impractical toys. Heck, they neglected that stuff to the point that when a base model wagon or a compact car of the era turns up it's an event worth mentioning whereas nobody cares about a restored camaro or tri-five with all the options.
You're gonna see the same thing happen all over again. Whatever vehicles have an outside reputation for greatness are going to be the popular shit.
Its a good reason to build an offroad ranger vs a jeep or toyota.
That's what people said about Chevelles when they were hacking them up to put a tree-fiddy in.