2003 Toyota Tacoma

The first part of the name is "Tacoma" which is what the truck is and the second is "Comatose" which is what happened to the truck shortly after I bought it. One day the truck laid down on me and would not do anything. I could not get it to turn over, it had no power to anything. It was like it was in a "coma". It took several months to get it running again. Shortly after that I decided to pull it completely apart and body drop it and fix any issues that I found along the way. I was leaning in the direction of using something with "coma" in it because of what it is and it being laid out and blacked out but when it laid down on me I knew 'Tacomatose" was the perfect name for the truck.

Adam Johnson

I had been away from shows and custom scene for several years. My son was starting to get old enough to help and I wanted to get him interested in the custom automotive scene. I wanted to build a truck that the my son, my wife and I could all work on and spend time together working on and we are all proud to go to show with. We went to a small local show and meet up with some friends from the past and the itch to build something else really got going. I was open to any mini truck but I wanted the right one. I wanted a smaller truck because I felt I could manage building it easier than a bigger truck at this point. I looked at several different trucks but they never jumped out at me. I have always loved the lines of the Tacoma and when I found this one I knew it was the one.

almost 2 years. I bought the truck in July 2016 and started pulling it apart in December 2016 and it made it first show in August 2018

20+ years but I walked away for several years when my son came along.

RELAXED ATMOSPHERE

Right now just enjoy it and enjoy taking it to shows. Maybe change wheels and add some type of graphics.

Anne Holt (wife and model), Dakota Holt (son), Todd Faulkner, Robert Nelson, Joe Sills, Brandon Shirley. I would like to thank my beautiful wife and awesome son for all the help and support, I could have not done it without you. I would like to thank Todd Faulkner for all the time he put into it. I would like to thanks Robert Nelson and his wife Angela Nelson for all the help and being our partners in crime. Big thanks to Joe Sill for helping get the interior knocked out. Big thanks to Brandon Shirley for the pinstriping.

1999 Dodge Dakota extended cab, solid black color, bagged and bodied

Toyota 2003

4 - cylinder

2.4L

Stock 2.4L w/ automatic trans. Exhaust built from header back to fit the bodydrop and ceramic coated flat black. The complete wiring harness of truck from front to back was pulled off and covered in black braided loom. Motor and trans pulled and painted silver with parts pulled off the motor and pained Luna. Relocated big battery to under the bed with small battery running up front. Green air intake filter. Painted under hood silver, black and Luna. On the fire wall the upper half, top of wheel tubes and radiator support are all painted gloss black. Front wheel tubes pinstriped on top by Mad House Designs Pinstriping by Big B (Brandon Shirley). On the bottom half, under the wheel tubes, under the cab and the complete under side of the bed is all finished with flat black bed liner. Truck still has heat and A/C. Work and paint by Todd Faulkner and myself.

Drilled and slotted front rotors by Brakemotive W/ caliper painted silver. 7" Dual diaphragm chrome brake booster & dual bail cap master cylinder. The brake booster was moved over on the fire wall to make a little extra room for the wheels and front tubes.

Pre-Tacoma rear axle

Stock floor body dropped using 2" x 3" x 1/4" tubing under the cab. Z'd front. Boxed in back half of frame. Round notches. Aluminum 15 gallon fuel cell, (2) 3 gallon air tanks & (2) viair 444C compressors mounted under bed. Shocks all the way around. 2" x 3" tubing transmission and carrier bearing cross members. Triangulated 4-link with slam specialties SS-7 bags. Bags mounted behind axle. Pre-Tacoma rear axle. Tubular upper and lower a-arms that are narrowed with slam specialties SS-7 bags. Cut into frame and boxed in frame at the bag pocket for more room to run the SS7 bags. Relocated the strut bar off the lower control arm so its center line pivot point is the same as the lower control arm. 2" spindle spacer. Slam specialties SS-7 bags front and back. SMC 3/8" valves with 3/8" lines. (2) viair 444c compressors, (2) 3 gallon air tanks, Viair 200 PSI pressure switch. All air ride mounted under back half of the bed along with the 15 gallon fuel cell. Suspension and bodydrop by myself, Todd Faulkner, and Dakota Holt. Frame was powder coated "Bright Argent Metallic Silver" by Martin Custom Powder Coating in Wildersville, TN. Control arms, 4-link, shocks, air tanks painted " Custom Color Shop Epic Colorz - Luna" painted by Todd Faulkner. Rear Axle, spindles painted gloss black by Todd Faulkner.

20" KMC Rockstars w/ 245/35/20'" tires all the way around

Custom Color Shop Epic Colorz - "LUNA"

Pinstriping under the hood on the front wheel tubes, on the hood, on the tailgate and on the back of the cab beside the extended cab window all by Mad House Designs Pinstriping by Big B (Brandon Shirley).

Todd Faulkner

Stock floor body dropped using "2" x 3" x 1/4" tubing under the cab.

Shaved fuel door, door handles, windshield squirters, shaved antenna, molded in roll pan and welded up the tailgate and tailgate handle. Tubed fire wall and finders in front and back. Splash guards welded and molded onto the front fenders and bed wheel wells. Smoked all exterior lights. I wanted the bed to look as stock as possible and I wanted it to be as functional as possible. I bought a donor bed and cut the floor out of it. I wanted to keep the floor ridges throughout the bed floor. I tried keeping the floor as close to the 4-link and bridge as possible to keep as much room in the bed as I could. The center part behind the axle is raised up a little more because of the fuel cell. I took the factory tacoma fuel door out of the donor bed and molded it into the floor of the bed over the fuel cell. I also added the wheel tubs to make the bed solid. The bed was finished off with black U-Pol Raptor liner. Mods performed by myself, Todd Faulkner, Robert Nelson.

myself, Todd Faulkner, Robert Nelson

Painted dash, door panels and extended cab panels black with prismatic pearl. Small dash pieces, console and fiberglass box painted "Luna". Grey Suede inserts on the door panels. Head liner finished in Grey Suede. Floor covered in black tweed. Seats covered in light grey leather with grey suede center inserts. Factory floor shift console and fiberglassed it to extend it to the seats and fiberglassed in the air gauges. Momo shifter and steering wheel. Pioneer AVH-P2300DVD double din touch screen CD/DVD player head unit. Boss BE5768 300W 5" x 7' Rage series 4-way speakers front and back on a Boss AR1600.4 4-channel Armor series amp. Two 12" Boss AR12D Armor series subs on a Boss AR4000D Armor series amp. Kinetik HC600-BLU battery under the hood and a Kinetik HC1800 battery under the bed. Fiberglass box built, painted "Luna" and installed by myself and Joe Sills. Interior performed by myself and Joe Sills.