It’s a pretty handy coincidence, after running a Datsun-Nissan weekend edition and including a photo of the exact same kind of 620-series truck, I noticed this one parked at a service station close by.
It’s not exactly a common sight here, as most of these were probably run to the ground before the mid-1990s and replaced with a King Cab of some sort. This truck has slipped through the crusher’s fingers and dodged the tin worm the best it’s could.


Minus the slightly weird-looking wheel trims and a longer cab, the press photo one is near-identical.

The bed has been remodelled at some point for obvious rust-through reasons, and the arches have been simplified greatly. The front part has survived in a pretty original condition, however.

The pea soup green truck here is powered by the smallest available engine, or the 1500cc J15 four, producing 77 horsepower. I do imagine it’s gotten the job done pretty decently during the past 35 years.

I wonder how many kilometres it has done. But with a five-digit odo, what matters are the service intervals, not the overall reading.
[Images: Copyright 2015 Hooniverse/Antti Kautonen]