Is this thing a joke, photoshop or real ?

I vaguely recall seeing one sometime in the murky past.

Also used to see small Nissan trucks from the '70's or so that had diesel engines. They were painfully slow, but I understand the engine was quite durable.

Seen plenty of Toyota duallys. Usually as a gardener's flatbed conversion.

u haul used a toyota duelly for movng trucks to

Lessmore wrote:
I vaguely recall seeing one sometime in the murky past.

Also used to see small Nissan trucks from the '70's or so that had diesel engines. They were painfully slow, but I understand the engine was quite durable.

We had an 82 Toyota diesel pickup in the family. Pretty much could say the same thing about it.

I know the neighbor had a small Toyota Class C that had dual rear wheels. I'm not sure the year, but I do believe his was a 6 cylinder, though.

Nissans in the 70s were Datsuns.....lol !

NJRVer wrote:
Toyota even had a "1Ton" rated pickup back then.

Yes, this is correct. A good friend had a Toyota one-ton. It was single wheel, regular cab, 7 ft bed, 4 cylinder, 5 speed stick.

I own one of those ultra rare Toyota diesel pickups. 1984 vintage and it just ticked over 276,000 miles. Even came with AC and it was a 4x4. I put a turbo and intercooler on it about 120,000 miles ago and it's far from underpowered, but body and frame rot have forced me to park it until I put the engine in something else. If I could post pic, I'd show my one-time 7000 lb load of sod. No problem going down the road, but any sort of a panic stop definitely required the use of the trailer brakes.

Adam

Adam R wrote:
I own one of those ultra rare Toyota diesel pickups. 1984 vintage and it just ticked over 276,000 miles. Even came with AC and it was a 4x4. I put a turbo and intercooler on it about 120,000 miles ago and it's far from underpowered, but body and frame rot have forced me to park it until I put the engine in something else. If I could post pic, I'd show my one-time 7000 lb load of sod. No problem going down the road, but any sort of a panic stop definitely required the use of the trailer brakes.

Adam

My first pickup was an 81 Toyota Diesel. I used it for my lawn mowing business in highschool. It was awesome. I bought it for $700. We put in a timing belt and eventually new glow plugs. When it started in the cold, it would fill parking lots with white smoke. It was leaking oil pretty bad when we sold it to some guy that was going to take it to central America. Ah, great memories.

Japanese & other auto makers build lots of models not available in North America. Look up Toyota Hi Ace trucks.

What about the Class C's on a dually Toyota compact pickup frame?