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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I bet that would explain it. You probably got all of those cars 2 or 3 years before they made it east to me.
I'm thinking more about this, and I think the little tiny pickups made to us while I was in high school. I don't remember if they were Toyotas or Datsuns or something else. In big pickup country, people chuckled at them.
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My dad loved those little pickups. We had several Ford Couriers (made by Mazda) going back to the early 70s. Then he had a Chevy LUV (made by Isuzu) in the late 70s, which I drove quite a bit after I got my license. Then in the early 80s, he had a diesel 4x4 Isuzu PUP. It got great mileage but was soooo slow. It topped out at 55, iirc. I used it the summer of 84 to move to Spokane and sweated my ass off in the no-AC vinyl interior while I toodled up the highway getting passed by everyone while having it floored the entire way. After that, he had a string of S10s until they stopped making them.
He still gripes that no one makes a small pickup like that in the US anymore.
