1997 Daihatsu Hijet Dump#BUC58024

This 1997 Daihatsu Hijet Dump is a Japanese domestic-market vehicle we imported and are selling directly, finished in White. Drive on this Hijet Dump is four-wheel drive. There are 10 photographs of this exact vehicle on this page — not stock images of a similar one.

1997 Daihatsu Hijet Dump: the background

A 1997 Hijet sits in the middle of a production run that has outlasted most of the companies that started building trucks alongside it. The Hijet was built to be maintained by its owner rather than by a dealer: the seats tip forward, the engine is right there, and the service points are deliberately obvious. Four-wheel-drive Hijets were aimed at farm and forestry work, which is where the sub-transmission low range and the differential locks in this family come from. Trade-spec Hijets were overwhelmingly white; this one is recorded as White.

What is on file for this Hijet Dump

A 1997 vehicle showing 53914, recorded with a Japanese auction grade of 4/B. That reading of 53914 came to us without a unit attached, and we have left it exactly as found.

How this 1997 Hijet Dump is put together

Drive reaches the road through a 5-speed gearbox, four-wheel drive. Four-wheel drive on a truck this light matters less for speed than for not getting stuck: there is very little weight pressing the tyres into wet ground.

Living with a Hijet Dump

Landscapers, small builders and smallholders are the people who end up with a Hijet Dump like this one. Built in 1997, this Hijet Dump is 29 years old and clears the 25-year threshold at which imported vehicles are exempt from US federal motor vehicle safety standards conformity. It is listed at $7,700.