For what it's worth, *I* am not even sure where this is going! I do know it's gonna be 2 seperate directions.
The fun part of the front-clip swap is that it shouldn't really work. But most real vehicle Clip Swaps are like that...
That 6-square grille still mounts to hood, but has a screw tab that's supposed to tie into winch bumper, winch bumper ties to chassis mounts. So after sneaking up on tolerances slowly, you basically cut the non-fitting parts flat, glue under-bumper to body. Then hopefully remember to come back and mount the screw tab to grille, so you can sink screw hole into under-bumper somewhere not seen through bumper holes.
Info stolen from
https://www.fourwheeler.com/how-to/1...toyota-pickup/
"1979-'82 Toyotas have round headlights and the '83-'85s have square. The '84-'85s appear taller because they have square-cut fenderwells versus the '79-'83s round ones. Grilles changed slightly during the '81-'83 model years."
Now Blue is a 79-82. Red is an 83. If i took one with the 6 square grille, slammed it, raised and squared out the wheelwells it'd be 84-85.
Red is going newer styled: 4-link, 4wd, big wheels, stock height. Royal metallic, stripes. Big airbrushed looking decal on tonnau if i can find something cool.
Blue is going old-school: leaf spring, 2wd, small wheels, low. Pastel, with weird line graphics on sides
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Turns out these trucks can be either Steel or Aluminum frame rails.