1997 Honda Acty Truck#BUC49388

1997 Honda Acty Truck, finished in White, came to us straight out of the Japanese domestic market.

Powertrain on this Acty Truck

This Acty Truck carries the E07A: a 660cc engine. Honda stayed with a single overhead camshaft and twelve valves for the Acty right through to the end of production in 2021, rather than moving to twin cams. The 660cc engine drives through a 5-speed manual gearbox.

Odometer and specification — Acty Truck

Odometer at listing is 12600 km; the paperwork gives a condition of used.

Background: the Acty Truck

Getting 350kg of rated payload out of a mid-engined layout is harder than doing it with the engine under the seats, and Honda did it anyway. The HA4 code marks this 1997 Acty Truck as a second-generation Acty, the run Honda built from 1990 to 1999. 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.

Recorded measurements — Acty Truck

Recorded dimensions are 326cm long, 140cm wide and 176cm tall. It is on file with a kerb weight of 720kg, a rated load capacity of 350kg and 8.03m³ of measured cargo volume. Acty Truck: Kei truck, Trucks on the registration, 2 seats. That is 350kg of payload on a 720kg vehicle, a load-to-weight ratio most full-size pickups do not come close to.

Import and ownership — 1997 Honda Acty Truck

At 140cm across, this 1997 Acty Truck goes where a full-size pickup simply will not — orchard rows, stable yards, greenhouse aisles, campgrounds and anywhere with a gate instead of a driveway. A 1997 build date puts this one well past the 25-year federal import threshold.