{"id":7518,"date":"2024-05-07T20:17:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T00:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=7518"},"modified":"2024-05-07T20:17:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T00:17:32","slug":"tacoma-finally-done-well-for-a-bit-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=7518","title":{"rendered":"Tacoma finally done (well, for a bit now)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I bought a Tacoma at an auction nearly a year ago. It sat in the driveway for months as I didn&#8217;t have a lot of time to deal with that. It then made its way down to Mexico where I had the engine torn apart, some upgrades, and then had the body disassembled and repainted a color I like (from the 3rd Gen Tacoma line: Quick Sand). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7405\" style=\"width:402px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240406_135324.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240406_135324.jpg?resize=640%2C288&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240406_135324.jpg?resize=1024%2C461&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240406_135324.jpg?resize=300%2C135&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240406_135324.jpg?resize=768%2C346&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240406_135324.jpg?resize=1536%2C692&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240406_135324.jpg?resize=2048%2C922&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240406_135324.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240406_135324.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s nearly in new condition at this point &#8211; mechanically solid (80k miles was higher than we would normally get), new paint, new tires and rims, new stereo system (it&#8217;s amazing), and LED inside and out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love this thing and though Yun was skeptical, she now has come around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a Tacoma at an auction nearly a year ago. It sat in the driveway for months as I didn&#8217;t have a lot of time to deal with that. It then made its way down to Mexico where I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=7518\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVHK-1Xg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}