Remember your first mini truck from back in the day?

[palmtreefrb]

Huntington Beach about 1974 ish

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[Mav truck lover]

Huntington Beach about 1974 ish

Ohh what a great picture and if you lived in California in this time this picture tells it all!

 

[Old_Norm]

Huntington Beach about 1974 ish

A little better (I'm bored).

 

[Mc_Flier]

Huntington Beach about 1974 ish

old school cool

 

[PaulieVee]

Loved this truck.

 

[crgator]

Huntington Beach about 1974 ish

Tried to improve an old pic. Hope you like it.

 

[crgator]

A little better (I'm bored).

Didn't see you had already done this until after I posted mine. (yeah, kind of bored too. )

 

[First Sergeant]

Too bad all the mini trucks were before cell phone cameras, other wise we would see lots of pictures. I can’t find any pictures of mine.

When my father and mother passed, 1986 and 1999, I ended up with all the old family photo albums and many loose pictures with a handful of pictures even from late 1800's. Maybe 40 albums (many large ones) total number of pictures was around 4,000. In 2015 I took them all into a photo shop where they still process film. They also will "digitize" your old stuff into the format you want (I choose .jpg). The store it on a usb thumb drive. I think total cost was about $650. Best money I ever spent. I made copies of the usb drive (they allow that) and sent those drives to all my brothers and sisters. Brings back tons of great memories! Here is my 1980 Toyota. pictures from 1980 or 1981. Wife and her sister taking a break.

 

[Malort]

84 Mazda. No pics, but exactly like this one in the centerfold of the sales brochure I still have. And yes, it blew a head gasket like every single other one did. Never realized I was driving a Hemi, could have fooled me……

 

[MyFirstFordEver]

1986 Dodge Ram 50 with the spring special package similar to the blue one in the foreground, only in California Red with charcoal gray lower and stripes. (Sadly, I don't have a photo.)
2 wheel drive, 2.0L, 5 speed stick, no power steering, no a/c, crack windows, single speaker am/fm push button radio. Paid $6400 for it new. Only option was the rear bumper. Added an aftermarket DIBL for $99.
Started my mostly small pickup journey of over the last 38 years: '86 Ram 50, '94 Nissan Hardbody, '99 S10, '00 Sonoma, '05 Frontier, '11 Titan (not small at all), '15 Colorado, '17 Canyon, '23 Maverick.

 

[Silver23]

My first was a used 1981 Datsun King Cab 5 speed without power steering but with A/C and a work shell. The NAPZ engine had two spark plugs per cylinder.

In 1982, the name Nissan replaced Datsun. Sadly, I don't have pics but the memory lives on.

I had an 81 Datsun King Cab 4x4 5 speed. And I do remember the 8 spark plugs in the 4 cyl. I had AC and IIRC power steering.
Man that thing was gutless!

Also I had a 94 Sonoma (nice), 80 something Mini max (yuk), 2016 Colorado (nice)

 

[RichardCranium]

When my father and mother passed, 1986 and 1999, I ended up with all the old family photo albums and many loose pictures with a handful of pictures even from late 1800's. Maybe 40 albums (many large ones) total number of pictures was around 4,000. In 2015 I took them all into a photo shop where they still process film. They also will "digitize" your old stuff into the format you want (I choose .jpg). The store it on a usb thumb drive. I think total cost was about $650. Best money I ever spent. I made copies of the usb drive (they allow that) and sent those drives to all my brothers and sisters. Brings back tons of great memories! Here is my 1980 Toyota. pictures from 1980 or 1981. Wife and her sister taking a break.

I ended up with all of the old photo albums as well, but my parents didn’t really take pictures after a while. The cell phone camera comment was because these days I have 600 pictures of just about everything, but back then I only took pictures of things Inwanted pictures of, and for some reason my trucks weren’t one of those.

 

[subiefiles]

I learned how to drive manual in a 70s Ford Courier my dad got for free. It was a rotted out piece of junk but it drove and I would basically take it joy riding in the countryside. Then I broke the transmission by trying to downshift into 2nd going 50mph or something. I think we sold it for $200. Net profit!

 

[jsalewicz]

I loved having my 1974 Datsun pickup back in high school. I have so many fun memories of fixing it up with my friends. Post your pics if you have any of your mini truck!

Mine was a 1985 Ford Ranger with a long bed 5 speed manual transmission. LOVED THAT TRUCK! a friend had an 84 and the only difference was mine had a black box or a "computer"

 

[RyanR]

Here’s my old Ranger project, bagged and LS swapped. Sold it before I could finish it.

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