1996 Honda Acty Truck#BUC83950

Here is a 1996 Honda Acty Truck, finished in White, imported from Japan and offered by Bucks Mini Trucks. Drive on this Acty Truck is four-wheel drive.

What we have on record for this Acty Truck

Odometer at listing is 29185; the paperwork gives a Japanese auction grade of 4/C. That reading of 29185 came to us without a unit attached, and we have left it exactly as found.

Under the skin of a 1996 Acty Truck

The engine is recorded as the E07A. Honda built the E07A oversquare — a 66.0mm bore against a 64.0mm stroke — which is why it would rather rev than lug. The 1996 Acty Truck came with a 5-speed gearbox, and that is what this one has.

1996 Honda Acty Truck: the background

The Acty's defining trick is where the engine lives: mounted transversely amidships under the load bed rather than under the cab. It looks like a cab-over, but structurally it is a mid-engined vehicle. Honda's four-wheel-drive Actys use an on-demand Real Time system built around a viscous coupling, so drive goes rearward when it is needed rather than when the driver remembers to select it. Because Honda kept the Acty mid-engined throughout, the E07A in this one sits behind the seats and under the deck rather than beneath them — every rival put its engine under the seat or at the very back.

Practicalities of this Acty Truck

A 1996 Acty 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 1996 build date puts this one well past the 25-year federal import threshold. It is listed at $5,700.