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Old 11-14-2014, 08:17 PM #1
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Ruggedly Elegant Golden Pearl Build

Greetings from San Antonio,
I’m new to the forum and wanted to start a thread to not only monitor progress, but to share to the my Runner to the world. I know that there aren’t of a lot of Golden Pearls out there, so I want to make this one, one of the best out there. I fell in love the color some time ago when I seen one on the road. I was for certain that I wanted the color, but in 4WD, seeing how both are rare, I hopped on the first one that I seen when I was ready to purchase. My girlfriend and I flew out to Las Vegas and picked this one up from Friendly Ford. I had secured the deal from over the phone with the salesman. The dealership wanted $11,777 but I was able to negotiate down to $10,821+ Texas TTL when I returned back to the state. The journey back was pretty awesome, we spent the night in Vegas and headed down to the San Diego Area for a couple of days before returning back to Texas. We were able to see a few beaches, La Jolla and Carlsbad, and then we journeyed over the mountains to the Palm Springs Area.

My reasons for wanting a T4R are pretty simple. I wanted a vehicle that could go anywhere and do anything. Coming from the “slammed to the ground” Honda world, I wanted to go a different route. I hope you all stop by every now and then and check out the progress! I look forward to learning and progressing here on the site.

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Year: 2002
Model: 4 Runner
Color: 057 Golden Pearl
# of Owners: 2 prior
Accidents: 0 known
Origin of Vehicle: 2yr Colorado/10yr Nevada
Date of Purchase: 08/29/14
Picked up: 9/12/14
Location: Friendly Ford, Las Vegas, NV
Miles: 115,394


When I first laid eyes on her…






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Marine St Beach in La Jolla, CA

Carlsbad, CA

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Picked up some FJ/TEP Wheels in Houston. The seller only had them on for a little more than 2000 miles.

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Old 11-14-2014, 08:24 PM #2
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Those wheels look great at stock polished color.

Gloss black is always cool. Matte black is to each their own, but my opinion is it's not great. Matte just looks dirty after a few hours compared to days for gloss.

Your truck is a beautiful looking (gloss) color.
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Beautiful color! Good move ditching that ford hitch cover. I'd keep the wheels like they are. White letters out on the BFG's would look really good IMO.

Nice truck and welcome!
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Can't wait to see those wheels mounted. I keep thinking about picking up a set myself.

Good pickup on that 4Runner. Low miles and good color.
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That color looks great. I would toss that dealer license plate frame too. No point in advertising them if they aren't paying you to do it.
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Wish the leather in my 4runner looked that good.

Welcome to the golden pearl club.
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Thanks for all of the comments! Since my Si was totaled out last week, due to being rear-ended, I kept the rearview mirror so that i could use the BlendMount for my Redline. I ordered the ScanGauge II w/ BlendMount and will be running it on top. I'll post pics when that comes it as well...



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finally upgraded the headlights and fog lights. I've had the headlights in for about a month now, but i just finished up the fogs a little while ago. I used MTD's Thread about installing sealed fogs.

Headlights: 4300K OEM White
Fogs: 3000k Golden Yellow


For any questions, check his thread out.
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finished up the install of the ScanGauge w/ Blendmount...





More goodies that came in....







Lift and Wheels are coming next....

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Since it was a nice day, a buddy of mine and I decided to have a mud playdate…









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Finally had some time to install the Hella Supertones...







The goodies keep coming in...



Toytec Boss Coilovers|OME 891| Bilstein 5100s...I kinda took a page out of ScatAdams' Playbook. His build inspired me to see out my dream of building a Golden Pearl Runner...



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My tires finally came in at Costco...





next is the lift install this weekend...

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The weekend can't come quick enough. Two more days until showtime. I removed the running boards earlier today, but I can't wait to mount these bad boys...



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i think i died inside when i saw you take it mudding. but got better then you washed it. please dont ever get that beautiful white unicorn dirty again. im begging you! lol sexy man!
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