1999 Daihatsu Hijet Truck#BUC56789

A 1999 Daihatsu Hijet Truck in our current inventory, finished in White, brought in out of the Japanese domestic market. Drive on this Hijet Truck is four-wheel drive.

The 1999 Hijet in context

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. 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.

The mechanical side of this Hijet Truck

The engine is recorded as the EF. Daihatsu's EF series is a 659cc three built in a great many variants, from plain carburetted versions to twin-cam and turbocharged ones. Behind the White bodywork sits a 5-speed gearbox.

1999 Daihatsu Hijet Truck: recorded details

A 1999 vehicle showing 75692, recorded with a Japanese auction grade of 4/B. That reading of 75692 came to us without a unit attached, and we have left it exactly as found.

What a Hijet Truck is good for

Farms, vineyards, ranches, grounds crews and building sites are where Hijet Trucks end up in the US, for the same reasons they ended up there in Japan — Japanese sources describe the kei truck as a necessity for moving tools, crops and catch. At 27 years old, this 1999 Hijet Truck is outside the window where federal safety-standard conformity applies to an import. The asking price is $6,700.