1992 Daihatsu Hijet Truck#BUC79012

This is a 1992 Daihatsu Hijet Truck finished in White, one of the Japanese imports we currently have available. Drive on this Hijet Truck is four-wheel drive. 10 photographs of this specific vehicle are on this listing.

Condition and equipment — Hijet Truck

Recorded against this 1992 Hijet Truck: 45686 on the odometer and a Japanese auction grade of 4/C. That reading of 45686 came to us without a unit attached, and we have left it exactly as found.

Engine and transmission — Hijet Truck

This Hijet Truck is fitted with a 5-speed gearbox. The point of four-wheel drive here is being able to finish the job in conditions that would strand a two-wheel-drive truck of the same weight.

Background: the Hijet Truck

Daihatsu is Toyota's small-vehicle specialist and the Hijet is the product it has spent longest refining — sixty-plus years of iteration on a single idea, and it shows in how resolved the details are. Trade-spec Hijets were overwhelmingly white; this one is recorded as White. Daihatsu sold the Hijet in an unusually wide spread of factory body styles — flatbed, PTO dump, panel van, canvas top, the extended-cab Jumbo from 1983 and the four-seat Deck Van from 1988 — because Japanese buyers specified them for particular trades. 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.

Buying this 1992 Hijet Truck

A 1992 Hijet Truck is old enough to be simple and new enough to be usable, which is most of why this generation gets exported rather than scrapped. A 1992 build date puts this one well past the 25-year federal import threshold. Price on this one is $5,700.