1997 Suzuki Carry Truck#BUC12345

1997 Suzuki Carry Truck, finished in White, came to us straight out of the Japanese domestic market. Drive on this Carry Truck is four-wheel drive. 10 photographs of this specific vehicle are on this listing.

Engine and transmission — Carry Truck

The engine is recorded as the F6A. The F6A ran for years across Suzuki's entire small-vehicle range, so it is about as well-understood as a Japanese engine gets. This Carry Truck is fitted with a 5-speed gearbox. Suzuki built the F6A in carburetted, injected and turbocharged forms and in both six-valve and twelve-valve single-cam heads, and that breadth is part of why it survived so long.

Condition and equipment — Carry Truck

Odometer at listing is 29350; the paperwork gives a Japanese auction grade of 4/B. That reading of 29350 came to us without a unit attached, and we have left it exactly as found.

About the 1997 Suzuki Carry

Four-wheel-drive Carrys were sold specifically for agricultural and mountain work, which is where the low-range and locking-differential options in this family came from. Suzuki has supplied the Carry to other manufacturers to badge as their own — Mazda since 1989, later Nissan and Mitsubishi — so the same underlying truck circulates under several names, which is another reason the parts supply runs deep. The Carry uses the classic kei arrangement — cab-over body, engine mounted longitudinally under the driver's seat, drive to the rear — which keeps everything short-coupled and within reach.

Buying this 1997 Carry Truck

Four-wheel drive on a Carry Truck was specified in Japan for field and forestry work, not for road holding. A 1997 build date puts this one well past the 25-year federal import threshold. Price on this one is $5,700.