The Chevy LUV was built by Isuzu, one of my friends had a 1976 and it was pretty much trouble free. I borrowed it for a road trip up to Washington state in 1983 to buy a 1956 VW panel bus and flat towed it home without any problems.
Mitsubishi was building the Dodge D-50 mini trucks, the Ford Courier was a Mazda.
The Datsun and Toyota mini trucks were all the rage back in the mid to late ‘70s, they sold like hotcakes back them. A lot of high school kids had them, they were more popular than muscle cars at the time. Partly because of the recent high gas prices and because they were so utilitarian.
Such a shame they’re not producing these great entry level mini trucks anymore.
