Mini Truck on the Farm - We bought a Japanese 1996 Mitsubishi Minicab 'KEI' Dump Truck!
Well we did it. We jumped in and bought a Japanese Mini Truck!
This little beast is 1996 Mitsubishi Minicab U42T Dump Truck. After a 12 hour round trip to collect it from northern NSW (Australia) we have a look over it and discuss how we are going to use it on the farm.
These little trucks may not be for everybody, but we think it is going to be a big help to us on the farm.
Importer (Hugo) who we bought the truck from:
customcoasterconversions.com.au/
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Yokohama Motors (Japan) for parts: yokohamamotors.net/page54.html
Megazip (Japan) for Mitsubishi Minicab U42T parts: www.megazip.net/zapchasti-dly...
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Just a inside tip for anyone interested in exporting. If you have time, it’s worth it to look on Japanese used car sites. The trucks you find there will have active Japanese inspection. That way you know it’s not a rusted out lemon. The auctions are a bit dangerous, the majority of the trucks are coming from the scrap yards, and there’s multiple middle men involved, Frankensteining the trucks together, hiding rust, faking papers. Looks like you got a great one though!
The 350kg load rating was more a part of the kei truck general spec. Make no mistake, that bed is on a full frame. 500kg should be fine. I think I’d want to revisit the leaf springs if I were regularly hauling that much.
That's a great looking Minicab! Congratulations on the purchase.
I like it. More useful than a dump trailer. Maybe I can talk the wife into letting me get one delivered to Oregon, USA...
You can buy a band expander so that FM radio will work outside of Japan
To be honest, 99% of the farmers don't need something like a Ford F-350.
They’re great little truck as long you are 5 feet tall to get in it.
Awesome. Looking forward to seeing it at work.
Takamatsu has no snow. Dry place, seaside btw mountains. Japan's additional tax is not depends on kiles/kirometers. 5% additional tax over 13 yrs old car.
That’s an absolute bargain for 12 grand
That's cool, never saw the dump put on that way
良いね👍
Shinmeywa was Kawanishi, H18 great flying boat maker dyring WW2.
Do you know that the most they pay for them is about $ 200 dollars or get them for free I live in in Japan and I have one I got for $500 bucks with 48 thousand kilometers
We have a 4wd Club Car Carryall 295. It’s a good machine but can’t be registered for road use. If these trucks are reasonably capable off road with appropriate tyres I think it would be a more versatile farm vehicle than the side by sides land holders generally buy.
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