Toyota’s full-size Tundra pickup isn’t a typical selection for a retro-style hot rod custom, but that didn’t stop the Japanese automaker from creating its own 1950s-style muscle truck at the 2009 SEMA Show in Las Vegas.
Toyota started with a basic two-wheel drive, regular cab Tundra with the automaker’s 5.7-liter V8 and six-speed automatic and began piling on the vintage-style upgrades.
A maple-lined bed, aluminum side panels and a pair of Fender guitars address the situation out back, while a flame-style matte finish paint job with a sufficiently vintage 1950s-look Toyota logo add style to the front fascia. The Tundra Hot Rod rides on Bonneville Moon Headlamps and signals its presence with a Cherry Bomb exhaust system.
Inside, the Tundra Hot Rod got a “Tuck and Roll” interior with a custom headliner, unique bench seat and hand-turned brass control knobs on the dashboard.
11/04, 8:49 AM
posted by:
gehrhardt
The only thing I like about this is the bench seat. Otherwise… Ewwwwww!
11/04, 9:14 AM
posted by:
2WheeledSpeed
Exactly why I hate SEMA… Stupid stuff like this…
11/04, 9:56 AM
posted by:
beatusmongous
The bench seat is pretty cool. But realistically, would anyone put two amps and a guitar in the bed of a truck?
11/04, 9:57 AM
posted by:
4thyrkindergarten
That’s just all wrong!! It doesn’t fit, it doesn’t work- Please put it back on the boat!
11/04, 10:20 AM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
beatus, it’s Japanese. Look a little harder and I’m sure you’ll find a Karaoke machine somewhere.
I’m with you on the bench seat too.
11/04, 10:21 AM
posted by:
armstealer
Adding a guitar is generally my first audio upgrade in any vehicle I restore.
11/04, 10:26 AM
posted by:
Need more oil for GM
What a joke. Probably turn into a pile of rust once the show is over.
Nobody gives a sh1t about a stupid Toyota anything, don;t know why LLN reports japcrap on a GM fansite.
An American Revolution
11/04, 10:28 AM
posted by:
reedfast
wow. toyota is having massive rim fails at sema, somebody needs to get canned. Can anybody tell me what kind of guitar that is?
11/04, 10:28 AM
posted by:
DenverGuy217
sounds like someone forgot to take their Prozac this morning…
11/04, 10:32 AM
posted by:
Need more oil for GM
Go GM!!!! Put everybody else out of business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to see the imports gone in the next few years, victims of the American Revolution!
Americans finally get it, this is GM COuntry!
An American Revoution!!!!
11/04, 11:32 AM
posted by:
armstealer
reedfast: I don’t remember if it was a telecaster or a stratocaster, but I do remember that it had a heart of
chrome and a voice like a horny angel!
11/04, 11:34 AM
posted by:
The Stig
And people wonder why Toyota is having financial troubles…
11/04, 11:40 AM
posted by:
Lawnchair88
*Facepalm*
11/04, 11:43 AM
posted by:
reedfast
so toyota probably bought an imitation stratocaster for 99 bucks, thanks armstealer
11/04, 11:56 AM
posted by:
superman
seriously? this looks ugly as sin. who put this monstrosity together? what ugly rims.
11/04, 12:35 PM
posted by:
A4
NO TOYOTA YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG
11/04, 12:48 PM
posted by:
Need more oil for GM
^Doesn”t matter, let them put themselves out of business. If they don”t do it, General Motors will.
An American Reolution
11/04, 1:14 PM
posted by:
beatusmongous
Johnny, every car has a karaoke machine – the stereo! I sing along to mine every day.
11/04, 4:42 PM
posted by:
key4wheels
That paint job is almost as ugly as the truck itself.
11/04, 4:46 PM
posted by:
tyler_is_aero_tt
It’s funny how NMOFGM says put everyone out f business when it was the other way around, and he’s talking about a company 10 times stronger than his own.
11/04, 9:12 PM
posted by:
85ZingoGTR
@ NMOFGM – Ok hotshot. Lets focus on preventing GM from going out of business themselves before GM can even open open their mouth and talk smack about other companies who are doing much better and actually know a thing or two about proper marketing.
11/05, 12:15 PM
posted by:
RaineMan
85ZingoGTR… I hate to say it, but if you read the latest headlines Toyota ain’t doing so hot themselves.
11/05, 1:14 PM
posted by:
Need more oil for GM
Nope they are not. GM is putting major smackdown on Toyota in all segments and will run the japs out of business by the next decade. Toyota is sh1t and everyone is realizing this. FINALLY.
As a person who has never owned or driven anything but a GM vehicle it gives me great pride to know that GM is Americas truck, car and SUV and that the one time media star Toyoda is struggling to stay alive with the onslaught of the American Revolution at their doorstep. They would be best packing it up and going back to japland.
Be American Buy American. buy GM. AN American Revolution
11/05, 10:23 PM
posted by:
ltlPony
LOL in Japanese
11/06, 3:54 PM
posted by:
85ZingoGTR
I am aware. But unlike GM they can’t keep up with the demand for the prius. GM on the otherhand can’t start a demand to begin with. My god NMOFGM. You poor thing. All the parts you must’ve went through with all your cars. You never got to really experience a real car of high quality have you? You have to constantly worry about leaving the car out in the street during spring cleaning when they take out the trash or the might’ve taken your car as well by mistake. It sure could fool me if I was a garbage hauler. hehehe.