Last week, a pair of factory Japan 20-something-year-old hot rods over a parking space in garage fire furnace. Driving a Mitsubishi Galant VR part quick-bustingly 4 or bewilderingly science fictiony Subaru XT6 as a daily driver would be nice, but how would you go pick up the replacement of the engine and the transmission you will need on a regular basis with a good car? You can load that stuff into the dime-a-dozen Ford F-150 as everyone else, but you won’t even have a garage fire if You that kind of person.
No, what you need is one of Japan’s first pickup for sale in North America as part of your hauler, and pickups that should be restored and adapted in a full-on, Tokyo-class VIP style.
Of course, the main attraction of small pickup Japan in the mid-1960s was their low prices, so you have to hope that the survivors has been used vigorously and will require TLC pako Festa. Do not despair, though, because hell Satan’s garage has found several projects that have to hands and knees crawling through a trench full of simmering plutonium walk in the Park!
If you are going to slam the vintage pickups Japan less than borrowers in arrears stepped on by Yakuza weight, you need a truck that will look right with about a half inch ground clearance, embroidered curtains in rear Windows and 20-inch polished aluminum wheels. In other words, we are not talking about Mazda B1500 or Isuzu Wasp (actually, a WaSP will look good with VIP treatment style, but You can’t find one). What we are talking about here is the original Datsun 320 pickup, with styling that still shows the influence of Nissan’s former partner Austin Motor Co.
Yes , 320 equipped British mandate, which of course adds horror character of the project. It is not easy to find the 320s currently, for example most North America wearing out carrying tons of pork offal and/or eaten by rust Monster, but we’ve got you covered. Check out here if the list disappears) in Southern California, the price is very reasonable $ 800. Seller’s truck team, this was a poet, so let’s admire her works: