How many 65+ (elderly by definition) 5th gen 4Runner owners on this forum?

[TRD PANTHER]

Glad there are some other youngsters on here like me��

I’ll only be 84 in November and only on my 4th T4R, a 3rd, a 4th an 2 5th gens.��

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. You sir are the oldest so far and that is awesome. I will be surprised if anyone tops this. I had my 3rd gen prior for 17.5 years. I guess by definition I’m considered young elderly. Hope I’m driving at your age. My father drove until he was 90.

 

[TRD PANTHER]

68 here. First 4R, 2019 OR, after having owned 3 2nd gen Tacomas, several (lost count, 6+/-) 1st gen Tacomas, one of which is currently in the driveway.

The 4R is the best of the bunch.

Three years apart as we get older is a big difference. I agree with you on the 4Runner. It is my favorite.

 

[Rack]

Elderly ??
I prefer "Senior Citizen"
In SoCal, I'm referred to as "Se-nor"

 

[DAW89446]

Great that you’re still getting out to hunt. No arthritis, but, My prostate is starting to act up. I need to make it out to Great Basin National Park.

I still need to make it to Great Basin. Before the pandemic the only major trip I took with the 4Runner was into the Idaho panhandle. The wife is disabled, so camping is out. Now that things are pretty much open, we’ll base in Ely and spend a few days taking in Great Basin and all the area.

Yes, still hunt. Deer and antelope often visit my property. I tried to combine with a couple of friends on elk this year, but none of us won a tag. I can bag my limit of cottontails from my porch in less than five minutes. Upland game trail starts two miles away; five miles of narrow, off camber, steeply climbing two track that tops out just under 7,000’ with nearly a dozen sets of multiple springs, then six miles back home. Plenty of sagebrush pinstriping because the 5th gen is nearly a foot wider than my ‘02 Tacoma TRD. Needed the locker on the Tacoma to make one section on the upland game trail, but A-TRAC handles it fine in the SR5. I run BFG All Terrain T/A KO2s, load range E.

 

[TRD PANTHER]

Elderly ??
I prefer "Senior Citizen"
In SoCal, I'm referred to as "Se-nor"

Senior Citizen does sound better. I found this on the internet.


“For example, according to Medicare, a senior is 65 years old or older. However, Social Security benefits are eligible for seniors starting at 62, even though the Social Security Office reports that 67 is the age of retirement. Yet if you are 55 and you visit an Arby's or McDonald's you can get a senior discount.Aug 22, 2022”

Versus,

“Aging, an inevitable process, is commonly measured by chronological age and, as a convention, a person aged 65 years or more is often referred to as 'elderly'.”

 

[blue$]

70 and far from elderly.

Still lift a couple days per week and get the mileage in with the dog in our rural area.

Elderly...ha!

 

[Salvo Jimmy]

70 and far from elderly.

Still lift a couple days per week and get the mileage in with the dog in our rural area.

Elderly...ha!

Walk rapidly about 1 mile per day, do 30 squats every day and 60 arm lifts at 17.5 # each arm per day. 84 next month. Old numerically, yeah; old physically, hardly.

 

[DAW89446]

Yet if you are 55 and you visit an Arby's or McDonald's you can get a senior discount.Aug 22, 2022”

I’ve bought my senior coffee at McDonald’s for 15 years. There’s been places I’ve stopped and only paid a quarter. For years the nearest McDonald’s to me charged 64¢ after tax. The last time I tried there was no senior coffee, all coffee sizes were the same price, $1. When it was 64¢, I always thought buying coffee at Starbucks was silly. Especially since the nearest Starbucks is more than three hours away from me.

Another advantage to being a senior is that one of the nearest casinos had a free senior breakfast each 1st Tuesday of the month. But that stopped in 2020 when the pandemic hit. Don’t know if it has resumed. The food quality was kind of going down hill by then so I haven’t been too keen to check it out again.

Another nice senior perk is senior services. In rural Nevada a senior attorney is available through the senior center in the nearest town. I’ve utilized their services in connection with my father’s last year alive. No charge. The attorney really helped a lot.

So anyway, enough of my senior mind. Back to 4Runners. Carry on!

 

[DAW89446]

Walk rapidly about 1 mile per day, do 30 squats every day and 60 arm lifts at 17.5 # each arm per day. 84 next month. Old numerically, yeah; old physically, hardly.

I get my exercise piddling about my acreage. Afterwards, it’s nice to sit on the porch watching the late afternoon/early evening colors on the mountains with a frozen pub glass of cold beer. Last night after dark I enjoyed sitting on the porch with a shot glass of bourbon and a view of the near full moon with Jupiter close to the left. The moon was reflecting off the hood of the 4Runner. So there, I kept my comment on topic! :blah:

 

[JaSC1]

Will be 60 in a couple of months. Do all the work on the 4Runner from Lift to front bumper. Next is a rear bumper possibly. Put spare tire up next to back window. Possibly act as a buffer when getting rear ended and people tend to stay further back when you have one, no bumper riding. A roof rack depending on prices one day.

 

[Saker]

68 here Boyz!

 

[Beach5150]

68 Here.
Retired 13 years ago. Still love wrenching on cars.
Escaped from california to the Oregon coast. Unfortunately we’re quickly becoming Oregofornia.

 

[johnnygraphic]

68 Here.
Retired 13 years ago. Still love wrenching on cars.
Escaped from california to the Oregon coast. Unfortunately we’re quickly becoming Oregofornia.

Sorry about that. It’s spreading out from Portland and crossing your southern border. It is gorgeous out there. We went camping a while back in Coos Bay.

I would’ve been outta CA years ago if I didn’t have family ties. But I wouldn’t go north. Id go towards AZ or TN or TX.


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[TRD PANTHER]

68 here Boyz!

Thanks for all your helpful posts, tips and threads.

 

[TRD PANTHER]

68 Here.
Retired 13 years ago. Still love wrenching on cars.
Escaped from california to the Oregon coast. Unfortunately we’re quickly becoming Oregofornia.

The Oregon coast is absolutely beautiful. It’s too bad the left coast as become so bad. The 60’s through the 80’s were nice in California. Californian’s are impacting many states in some negative ways.
This is not new.I think most remember the bumper stickers on Oregon cars back in the 70’s that stated something like, “Californians go home”. I’m sure many states have similar stickers now.

 

[TRD PANTHER]

Walk rapidly about 1 mile per day, do 30 squats every day and 60 arm lifts at 17.5 # each arm per day. 84 next month. Old numerically, yeah; old physically, hardly.

That’s impressive. I need to do more myself.

 

[DAW89446]

The 60’s through the 80’s were nice in California. Californian’s are impacting many states in some negative ways.

I’m a native Californian, though I was born and raised in the wide open Mojave Desert and lived most of my adult life farther north along the sparsely settled Nevada border (with exception of a couple years in Wyoming) until I crossed over a couple dozen years ago. What was once empty desert in the 1950s and 1960s is now urban sprawl.

And don’t forget that California’s population boomed by Caucasians first by gold seekers from back east in the late 1840s and 1850s; then during the Depression (which brought my mother); then WW2 (which brought my father). The nation’s population has always been restless. Sometimes with negative side effects.

 

[Auntie Soshul]

74 years old here. Change my own oil and do non-heavy mods, mostly involving audio.

 

[TRD PANTHER]

I’m a native Californian, though I was born and raised in the wide open Mojave Desert and lived most of my adult life farther north along the sparsely settled Nevada border (with exception of a couple years in Wyoming) until I crossed over a couple dozen years ago. What was once empty desert in the 1950s and 1960s is now urban sprawl.

And don’t forget that California’s population boomed by Caucasians first by gold seekers from back east in the late 1840s and 1850s; then during the Depression (which brought my mother); then WW2 (which brought my father). The nation’s population has always been restless. Sometimes with negative side effects.

I too, am a native Californian. My father came to California from Canada after serving with the Royal Engineers during WW2 from 43-46. He came out here in 1950 and got a job, then 6 months later they found out he was here illegally and sent him back. He got his green card and came back out a few years later and met my mother who came out here for work in the 50’s. My parents were both depression kids and I initially grew up in the Rampart district of L.A.
I use to walk and ride my bike everywhere back then. McArthur park, Echo park, Santa Monica, etc. I’m sure we all have good stories of how good and safe it was back then.

 

[CutthroatSlam]

My wife has the 4Runner and she is 75. She uses it to go back and forth between our Southern California home and our ranch in SouthWest Montana, as well as off-roading and camping. 2014 SR5 with 310K miles and I do all the maintenance which has been pretty much routine, with no major repair issues. I love wrenching on my cars and boats.

Both of us were born and raised in SoCal. It has become a shithole due to liberal progressive super majority control of the State. Homelessness and crime are out of control. Our future is in Montana when I retire in a couple more years. The Bitterroot Valley of Montana is filled with conservative political exiles and refugees from California and they don’t want the liberal progressive ones.