When looking through the pictures I took at a recently held event for Japanese cars, I noticed the five family trucksters, all dressed in white. It was quite a wild variety too, mind you. So I decided to put them all together in this mini-tour. Enjoy.
Starting with a cute 1977 Toyota 1000 wagon. Its engine displacement is 993 cc, actually. The 1000 was the name for the Publica P30-series in most markets outside Japan.
Just a few steps from small & cute to a compact brute, a 2000 Subaru Forester S/tb STi.
Powered by a turbocharged 2.0 liter flat-four with a maximum power output of 240 DIN-hp. AWD, naturally.
The grocery getters are getting bigger now, with more turbopower.
With the tinted windows and black pillars the roof of this 1997 Subaru Legacy GT-B (B for Bilstein) really seems to float.
Power unit: a twin turbo 2.0 liter flat-four, according to the wagon’s registration good for 260 DIN-hp. Given that number it must have an automatic transmission (I didn’t peek inside) and the EJ20H engine from the contemporary Legacy GT. Feel free to chime in, dear Subaru-connoisseurs.
And then there was this. I’ve got a feeling it might be the CC-crowd’s favorite.
Live wagonlyfe to the max…
…with this 1997 Nissan Stagea RS Four. There’s a turbocharged 2.5 liter inline-six engine under the hood of this AWD wagon. Registered maximum power output 280 DIN-hp.
Ah, the face of a gentle giant.
1981 Toyota Land Cruiser 60-series (as introduced in 1980) with a naturally aspirated, 4.0 liter inline-six diesel machine. Just 105 DIN-hp, but most likely it will last till eternity and beyond.
Next episode: a plush Nissan, dressed in black.
Very nice! I could be convinced to adopt any of the five, each for different reasons.
Thanks for sharing. I actually added a Japanese wagon to the family. Will probably do a write-up on it sometime:
It is funny how most of these are unknown in Spain, which for cars after 1986 (when Spain joined the EEC) there was already a single market. Only the Subarus are seen here!
Interesting group. I think the 280PS rating for the Stagea would be a “gentlemans agreement” number, and the real power output would be a bit more than that!
Also the Landcruiser has a steel bumper similar to the one on the Chevrolet pickup Paul posted recently, but with matching front and rear tow hitches! This is something that is seen in Australia sometimes, usually so that a caravan can be maneuvered into a tight spot more easily.
Ex JDM 60 series Landcruisers that were quite common not long ago here all seemed to have a front winch and the four cylinder diesel engine, Ive only had experience of the 4.2 six and those go well enough.
Subaru wagons and Stageas are quite common depending on which engine it has Stageas can be very fast or not, similar to the Subaru range, twin turbo models are quick non turbo arent, durability and reliability seems patchy on both plenty turn up on FB sale pages sporting a wide variety of problems, but for very little money. Speed limiters were still in Japan on high output cars they can be disabled along with the annoying 100kmh warning chimes.
Oh, no! That little Toyota.
Years and years ago, barely 18 y.olds, travelling in the country with a car-nut best mate and his very sweet granny, we advanced behind an old behatted fellow driving what must be the only such Toyota in the country (it wasn’t sold here). It too was white, but in my memory, it looked older than this. Me and carnut mate were straining to read a badge, nothing said. Gran, front passenger, peered too, probably in polite confusion.
“Pube-licker”, she pronounced after a bit. “What’s a pube-licker?”
Stunned silence. Complete inability to respond. A Very Large Laugh was being held in, for both of us. Tears began to form on mate’s face, which itself slowly turned into a tomato and then a roaring fire.
“Pube-licker,” she repeated, musingly, to fill the silent non-response. “Funny name, that.”
I was safe in the back. I couldn’t be seen.
“Sure is!” I squeaked, and collapsed sideways out of view , utterly out of control with silent, screaming laughter, fitting, unable to breathe. From the drivers seat, I could hear the occasional sniffle, then cough, then a loud blurt. The car, (a Passat), kept twitching from side to side just a bit. I could see the drivers seat runner shaking involuntarily from my bent over viewpoint.
“Who makes pube-lickers?”, she said to the strained silence.
“God does, I s’pose!” I hissed, especially so Gerard would hear but dear gran wouldn’t.
“Ooh, are you ok Gerard?”, says gran.
Oh my, he wasn’t. How he wasn’t!
And how we ever got to our destination alive, I’ll never know.
Good story! You see why numbers on a trunk lid / hatch often work better than names? Then again, in that case you wouldn’t have had these memories! “Oh look, a Toyota 1000″…nothing to laugh about or remember.