Admit you'd drive this!!

[BAD MERC]

1976 Datsun pickup. Only 8 are still registered in the United States and apparently this is a real 4X4 with Dana axles right from Datsun. This frame-off was meticulous and he had 30 miles on it since restoration. Fired right up with a quick stab of the key and was as fresh as the day it was built.



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[Raven34]

Cool! And yes I'd drive it. But I'd prefer a beat up non-restored one so that way I wouldn't feel bad about 'wheelin it.

[boatmangc]

I had one of them in 1983. If you listened real close you could hear it rust.
Lotsa fun in the sand dunes north of WPB Fl.

[ImpalaSlayer]

thats sick

[Motorhead350]

I love trucks. Cool find.

[Leadfoot281]

I had an '88.5 Suzuki Samuri.

I guess that means I'd drive anything. :o I could also hear that one rust too. Slamming the door too hard would cause chucks of it to hit the ground. Most fun I ever had with $800 though.

[TFB]

Nope, not me...

[Joe Walsh]

I would drive that......................if it had a 3.8 Buick Turbo V6 in it!

[SpartaPerformance]

I would drive that......................if it had a 3.8 Buick Turbo V6 in it!

Or atleast a 280ZX Turbo motor in it.

[CBT]

My uncle had a Datsun pick-up. Same body style, non 4 wheel drive tho. He had it about 10 years. Everytime it would rust out, he'd re-bondo it and paint it a different color. I saw it solid blue, solid green, and solid blue AGAIN all in 10 short years. The bed finally rusted thru and fell down on the wheels. Sucker ran like a champ right up till the end, tho.

[Joe Walsh]

Or atleast a 280ZX Turbo motor in it.

Good call!...Keep it all Datsun hardware.

[Mr. Man]

My first vehicle was a 1978 Datsun King Cab 4x2. It ran like a champ, had a 5 speed manual when everyone else was using 4 speeds. The issue was bed rust. Single wall construction and cheap American paint jobs were the death knell for the bed. The trucks were shipped from Japan in chassis cab so you could configure how you wanted the bed. The Japanese paint faded in 6 months but wasn't prone to rust. The beds were another story. One little dent from the inside and you had a potato chip and rust was sure to follow.

[martyo]

I'd rock it if I could fit in it!

[liquid]

Sorry to the OP but no, this truck is just too ugly for me! Also I'm having a hard time digesting the $49.99 trailer rims on any "meticulously restored" vehicle.

[Egon Spengler]

That thing is great! I would love to drive around in a truck that said "LIL HUSTLER" on it! There is a Datsun pick-up in the woods in my town and my friend and I discovered it once as kids when we were riding our bikes through the woods. It was full of bullet holes and scared the hell out of us and we pedaled off as fast as we could! haha. Of course we did go back to it because it was cool. There was also an abandoned house in the middle of the woods with no driveway or anything leading up to it. That was a cool fort!

[WI Fordguy]

Dana axles? Front is, but the rear doesn't look like a Dana, if it is somebody educate me.

[2,4shofast]

That is really cool, my dad had one when I was young.

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Reminds me of this. They were selling these new at the Dodge dealer I worked at as a porter. I thought they were kind of gay even back then. At least they had a V8.

[MrBluGruv]

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It works.

Reminds me of this. They were selling these new at the Dodge dealer I worked at as a porter. I thought they were kind of gay even back then. At least they had a V8.


One of those popped up at a local classic car consigner a few years back, except they replaced the entire drivetrain with that of a Ram SRT/10: 8 litre V10 engine and T-56 6-speed trans. MEAN little truck.

[tbone]

Anything with that drivetrain would be instantly transformed into an awsome vehicle. Even the Pelosi GTXi!

[Mr. Man]

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It works.

Reminds me of this. They were selling these new at the Dodge dealer I worked at as a porter. I thought they were kind of gay even back then. At least they had a V8.
There was a Worlock version as well but I don't recall the specs. The 'lil Red Express was Dodges fastest production vehicle in 1978:)

[tbone]

There was a Worlock version as well but I don't recall the specs. The 'lil Red Express was Dodges fastest production vehicle in 1978:)

Not sure how great that is. 1978 was a rough year for cars.........:depress:

[gdsqdcr]

Cool? Yes ...
Would I drive it? No. I want a truck I can use and abuse, i.e., I have put 70K miles on my used 04 Sierra in the last 3.5 years -- and no it is not my daily driver. It gets more car washer in the winter (I hate salt) then the rest of the year combined. It is a truck and is meant to be used!

[SpartaPerformance]

Not sure how great that is. 1978 was a rough year for cars.........:depress:

True very limited choices for speed, T/A comes to mind, even the Vette was a slug.

[Joe Walsh]

True very limited choices for speed, T/A comes to mind, even the Vette was a slug.

I think that the fastest Ford in 1978 was the T-bird with a 400M in it.
The Mustang was the hapless 'Mustang II' with the anemic 130 HP 302 V8.

[tbone]

I think that the fastest Ford in 1978 was the T-bird with a 400M in it.
The Mustang was the hapless 'Mustang II' with the anemic 130 HP 302 V8.

How can a 302 V8 be de-tuned down to only 130 hp for 1978!? It seems like it would almost be harder to do that, than to go the other way and make it crank out 400hp! Jeesh, what the government has done to our cars!:bigcry: