one ton toyota

Our '86 Dolphin Class C was built on a 1-ton Toyota dually cab/chassis, as were many other brands of that era. Chinook, Coachmen, Conquest, Dolphin, Durango, Escaper, Granville, Gulf Stream, Heritage, Itasca, Keystone, Mirage, MRV, New Horizon, Odyssey, Seabreeze, Sunland, Sunrader, Travelmaster, and Winnebago are all brands that had Toyota based models, mostly using the 1-ton dually chassis. I know there were more, but that's all I can remember. A search on "Toyota Motorhome" will likely turn up a website or two devoted to these classic mini-C's. There's also a Yahoo Group devoted to them.

I have never seen one with the extended cab or the pick-up box… but there were plenty of Toyota and Nissan, Datsun dually presumably 1 ton regular cab and chassis around… at least some of the Datsun and Nissan were V6’s… I think there were at least 5 MH builders using them in both stick and tin, and fiberglass…

Datsun pioneered the compact truck market here, 69 first ½ ton compact, 75 first long bed pick-up, and in 77 the king cab, and was the first importer to mfg pickups in the USA…

wbwood wrote:
And it's only 4 cylinder

Whadda ya mean...."only" ??

How many cylinders do you need ??..:@..:W

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Good 'ole Orangevale LOL...

You can find anything on some-o-them rust ranches over there :B

Yoop those things were pretty common some years back.

Sweet looking rig. One ton "mini" trucks are out there, when I was working for a petroleum co back in the '90s we had a 1 ton stake bed DRW Ranger with a V-6, ran forever, got good mileage and got worked like a rented mule.

Sweet looking rig! My Sister is looking for something similar and I know others are after these smaller campers. The reasoning is that they are fuel efficient. I can't understand the rationale because I just don't put on that many miles in a year so that fuel cost becomes an overriding factor.
That said, I've always had respect for the campers built on the Toyota chassis. Most of them seemed very durable. If I was after fuel efficiency, I'd pick up an Isuzu diesel with low miles and add in the camper. It might be possible to have a dual-use rig with a flat bed and a slide-on shell. Sorry, I'm always wanting to build my own...

And it's only 4 cylinder

I miss the old Hilux type pickups, the compact vehicles that are almost unkillable, sip gas, and can handle almost any load you can throw in the bed (within reason). The Tacoma doesn't even compare, and the Tundra is just one of many full size pickups.

I still wonder why it takes so much technology these days to do what a motorhome did 20 years ago, MPG-wise. A neighbor's 4-banger class C on the old pre-Tacoma frame gets 20+ MPG.

When I was in high-school,(late 1970's) a buddy of mine had a toyota dually truck with a stake-side bed.
Heavy duty front rims.
I wonder if this was the same chassis?

Bill

nice! I live in Orangevale {last 47 years}