Life is good when a woman comes over in the grocery store parking lot and say, "Ooo baby, a Chevy LUV!!! It happens, at least in New Mexico where people love old cars. Top speed about 45-50, perfect. You are right, great transmission. I had the same one in my 83 S-10. Also an Izuzu.
We had a 79 LUV when I was a kid.... my dad bought it as a leftover in 1980. It was SUCH a great truck. I think it was based on the P'up. And believe it or not our family of 4 would travel in it. I on my moms lap, my brother in the middle and my dad driving. I remember that shifter hitting everyone's legs in 4th gear and in reverse. The reason I hear that we don't have mini trucks anymore in Americais that the Ford Rangers/Chevy S-10/Dodge Dakotas were approaching the same price as a bottom of the line full size, and it was too dofficult to get mini trucks sold when for a couple grand more... you could have a full size truck. Now in third world countries mini trucks thrive... they actually have diesel Rangers. Great video. .. broufht back great memories
N.Y.C Department of Sanitation used the Chevy Luv for cleaning details all the way into the 1990s. Rookies loaded up 2 pails, 2 brooms and 2 shovels, the supervisor gave you and your partner a list of dirty blocks, or corners in N.Y.C they wanted cleaned and swept. "What are you doing today buddy?" "Chevy Luv" "oh cool!!" After all the Chevy Luvs were phased out, we used the F-150, or just take a garbage truck. We missed the Chevy Luv when it went away. Good little work horse.
+dylan5567 I loved my 1990 Nissan. Complete no-frills utility. Regular cab, 5-speed, 2.4L 4-cyl. The only option it had was A/C. That little truck was a complete beast. I flogged the ever-loving hell out of it for 130K miles, never had a single mechanical issue. I abused the heck out of it too. Hauled and towed loads WAY beyond what it was rated for. Tough little machine. Probably the best all-around vehicle I have ever owned. Wish I still had it.
+Michael Kane I want a Nissan D21, preferably with the KA24E. Partly because it'll have the same engine as my 240sx project, but also because they're just good, rough-and-tumble trucks.
The *chicken tax* is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. *chicken*. - from Wikipedia
I knew what this was a while back but I have forgot, thanks for refreshing my memory.if I remeber correctly Subaru tried importing their mini truck called the brat and to get around the chicken tax they put these little seats in the bed of the truck so they could label it a passenger vehicle. The most sketchy seats of all time lol
Anthony Mense Ford still does that with the Transit Connect. Every van is imported with windows and seats in the back. Then when they arrive they are converted to cargo vans
I used to have an 81 Luv with 4x4. It was the best 900 bucks I ever spent. I got rid of it when the timing chain tensioner broke and I was tired of only going a max speed of 55mph
ScaryGhost1 alternators ,are not the same as generators ,they both charge the battery a generator uses direct current an alternator use alternating current . lot's of older imports came with generators , the military uses them still because they can be used the same as the power in your house .
jerry henderson Sure, but I think they were done with actual generators on cars back in the early 60s, it's just that the nomenclature stuck around a bit longer. So his alternator is probably going out.
When I was young, my dad had a dual-headlight Chevy Luv's that he made out of 3 other ones. Eventually he painted it pearl white and turned it into a drag-car. 2000 pounds with a 468 big block chevy and a TH400. Used to race at Lonestar Dragway outside Dallas, TX. Sure would love to find that Luv again!
Right after high school I had a 72 LUV with an MG interior, small block 350, turbo 350 trans, B&M slap shift and a 4 foot axle with skinnies up front & 50's on the back. I used to love that LUV! Such fun little trucks. Wish I still had her today. Good luck with it!
I love standard pickups. I have a standard 4x2 tacoma with a 4 banger and it may not be very fast but it's definitely fun to drive. I wish you could still get full size pickups with a manual transmission.
I had a '92 Isuzu pickup, which came with exactly ONE option; air conditioning. It had factory manual steering, and a 5 speed manual trans---the shifter throws on that manual were absurdly long, like 12" front to back. It was also one of the very last vehicles sold with a carburetor in the US (maybe even THE last). It had all of the sophistication of a sledgehammer, but it always ran....one of the most dependable vehicles I ever had.
Well done of you @RegularCars to end it like you did, trying to say you're going fast and/or not "mature" enough at the wheel, when We All know you drive like a Pro and one of a kind!!
A Chevy luv is what I learned to drive on and I’m 18. 1981 Chevy luv 4 speed 4wd 1.8 liter 4 cylinder. That pickup was awesome dad still has it but is selling it.
Oh man this takes me right back to high school. Luv with house speakers and mustang seats in the back with the stuffed party wolf holding a beer and a smoke. Luvs ate timing chains and sounded way cooler with the air cleaner off.
Hunter Paige Nope, the Baja is on the legacy/outback platform so it can be classified as something else. Subaru DID make a mini truck to get around the chicken tax, it was called the Brat. The think had like 80 something horsepower, " 4x4 drive" since the term AWD didn't really get around in the 80s, and had seats in truck bed facing backwards....and perfectly legal.
Phil Rutherford If I'm not mistaken, they put those rear-facing seats in the Brat in order to classify it as a "passenger car" rather than a pickup truck.
The chicken tax was first imposed by Europe on the U.S. as a tariff on imported chicken meat as right after WW2, the supply chain infrastructure for poultry was not only untouched by war but dirt cheap because of the wide open spaces of our country. In a never ending pre GATT world with retaliatory action after retaliatory action this same tariff eventually found its way to light commercial vehicles. Now there being a very large pickup truck market and larger margins on bigger vehicles Detroit wanted to keep making the large trucks so the chicken tax on light commercials never went away. Now some car companies have resorted to building the small vehicles in America, with varying degrees of success, but in most other countries in the world, you won't see a 150 or Silverado or Ram, you see these light trucks and the tax never went away. In Australia, where I am from these small vehicles are marketed to the blue collar tradesman quite successfully, where over here you seem to lose your proverbial man card if you drive something smaller than a snooker table. Today the Ford Transit Connect built in Turkey comes as a passenger vehicle with seats in it. It doesn't come off the boat as a stripped van, so as a dodge to said chicken tax, Ford strips and destroys the back seats of all such vehicles intended to serve van duty. I don't know how Ford does this with such impunity but it might have to do with the fact that States register vehicles and the Feds do customs.
I drove a '79 Isuzu Pup in Australia once. It had a 4 speed on the column. This truck sounds much nicer to shift. Good looking little rig. I miss Japanese mini trucks, and just simple, honest, non-pretentious trucks in general.
Love these LUVs! They're a pickup version of the Isuzu Florian sedan (hence the car-like qualities with the ride and the shifter). I love it because it's tangentially related to a Giugiaro-designed car, the Isuzu 117 Coupe, which was also Florian-based.
Liked those had one in high school. Blue with black interior, Chrome three spoke steering wheel, 8 inch baby moons on back 7 inch on front. We used a torch to blue the moons just a little. Glass pack muffler and CB, West coast mirrors.
I'm 6'4" and I own drive, a 73 LUV. and frankly I prefer driving it over my other classics at times. A 79 Ford f100 Ranger. And a 63 Chevy Apache. And rebuilding my Dad's 59 Apache as well, original owner..
Review a 1991ish Infiniti Q45a. Make sure it has the A The one with the active suspension. I used to work for Infiniti and that car was wild as hell, really different, a unicorn.
That trucks adorable! I'd love to own a small truck because you don't have to give up what you like about cars just to be able to tow stuff around. I guess in that way, SUVs are essentially the modern "mini pickup"
When heard it clicking into gear, I am pretty sure it is the same gearbox that Isuzu used here in Australia for both the Holden Gemini and the old Holden One-Tonne utes, before we got the Rodeo.
A friend of my father had one of these back about 1990 and it was a '72. He got it for $50 and beat on it for years. I love older trucks. I have a '74 Ford F-100 but I would like to snag either an early Subaru Brat or a Chevy Courier to go with it.
I borrowed one of these back in 1985 to move some furniture. The clutch was so stiff, I had to use all my strength to press the pedal. I don't think it had a power assisted clutch. I never borrowed that truck again.
I did the same thing. Bought a Nissan 720 as my first car and taught myself manual on the way home. I miss that thing so much. The frame started to go on it :(
The GEN light was a Chevy thing in the 70s. You replace your GENerator with an alternator and it leaves that light on forever. My friend has a '77 Nova, same thing. No matter the condition of the alternator.
The most common mini trucks here in Sweden are the WV Caddy and the Skoda Felicia, they are absolutely everywhere. Cheap too, 600-700 bucks will get you a post -96 model in good contidion.
I had a new yellow 1981 Chevy LUV. Great Isuzu engine until it rained then my truck would just cut out as I was driving down the road. I was always hunting for the right gear and never found it....
I had a 73 courier. very similar to the luv. I wanted to do a 5.0 swap on that thing and toss in the 5.0 trans. It never happened but now I want a courier just to complete that build. lol
That's a handsome little truck that. Shame us Brits see no point in pickups but I see the appeal in this one. Saying that though, the Original Volkswagen Caddy is fairly popular here
7:50 Did exactly the same thing. Had my brother drive me assuming he knew how so I ended up driving it back. The test drive was embarrassing as hell, but the dude was cool about it. Stalled a few times on the way back, took a few days to learn rev matching and it's already second nature.
If you end up in socal sometime, you should check out my '74 ford courier. Same chicken tax setup; they imported a truck frame from mazda (therefore not importing a truck) and bolted a bed on it stateside. Just a fun little truck with tons of low end torque, and absolutely no power. It's slow and lovely.
rasvial The difference, is mine works like new, he's got a few naggles. Mind you.. like new doesn't mean much, it was the base model of entry level mini trucks in 74.. but if you like that concept- a 2500lb truck with a 1.8l i4, its perfect. Mini trucks are trucks for real people who don't need a "TRUUCKCKSKKKKJARHHGHGHGHMURICA"
If you come to wa ill let you drive my 91 s10 2.5l five speed. Its a reliable daily. I had a 84 four speed camaro with get this, a 2.5l. Every day someone said put a v8 in it but it was so good on gas and i daily drove it. Thats the dntire reason i picked a 2.5l s10.
I had a 81 model of the LUV and it has a completely different body and was a 4x4. I think that there's a market in the US for mini trucks and It's unfortunate that they don't sell them here. One thing I would have improved on the one I had was the frame it needed to be better coated or thicker steel so that it doesn't rust through and fall apart.
Regarding the transmission, it's probably a car transmission, and a short differential (4.3-4.5 to 1, where a passenger vehicle would run around 3.9:1) I'm in Australia and we got the Subaru Brat (called a Brumby here, with no back seats)
HA, The Jack Daniel's jerry rig. What does an overflow bottle do, is it relieving pressure from the radiator or something? I'm a computer tech, not a car guy, sorry if it's a stupid question.
Creepy Productions Just catches any coolant overflow when the coolant heats up and expands. And if the coolant gets way too hot and turns to steam, that's where your radiator cap comes into play. The radiator cap will "vent" if a certain amount of pressure is reached.
When the coolant heats to operating temp it expands and the excess goes in the overflow tank and if set up right will siphon it back in as it cools. Otherwise once it expanded then cooled the coolant level would be low util heated back up. Older cars just vented the hot coolant towards the ground. They used higher PSI.caps back then, usually when they vented coolant they were hot and it sounds pretty violent spewing the coolant out.
Can you make a review for a 2004 Saab 9-3 aero convertible. I have one and would like to see a video about it, it's kind of rare so not a lot of videos about them.
will you ever do a 2004 bmw m3? I think it falls under the "regular car" price at around 12k. Im getting one soon and if you dont do the car by then i'd gladly let you use mine. I live in md
If I was to get a truck, I'd want something like this. A little utility vehicle to carry whatever I needed around... Please make something like this again... please?
Think you'd ever do a review of a chevy/geo metro. I think it holds an interesting place in automotive history. Cheap as hell, sips gas, low insurance rate. A true economy car.
Neither has RCR nor are those vehicles available stateside. It'd be kind of hard for him to review them. Plus it's hard to beat a car that you can pick up for $500 American that gets over 50 mpg.
Warning, Danger To Manifold ! Tommy Long Something like a Peugeot 106, Renault Cilo, Opel Corsa, Toyota Yaris, etc can get you sometimes over 60mpg on mixed roads (40% street - 30% highways - 30% motorways)
Here is a few examples of European economy cars www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/picturegalleries/9282997/The-10-most-economical-cars-on-sale.html All get over 75mpg
LOVE it! Kind of has a rat rod theme going on. Jack bottle. oh yes.
Could he get busted for open container with that bottle?
Street Speed 717 we used to have one best pickup in the world in my opinion
LUV = Light Utility Vehicle
Before I knew that, I thought the name was some sort of joke.
Life is good when a woman comes over in the grocery store parking lot and say, "Ooo baby, a Chevy LUV!!! It happens, at least in New Mexico where people love old cars. Top speed about 45-50, perfect. You are right, great transmission. I had the same one in my 83 S-10. Also an Izuzu.
@@rhllnm s-10's were not isuzu. They were true chevys.
We had a 79 LUV when I was a kid.... my dad bought it as a leftover in 1980. It was SUCH a great truck.
I think it was based on the P'up. And believe it or not our family of 4 would travel in it. I on my moms lap, my brother in the middle and my dad driving. I remember that shifter hitting everyone's legs in 4th gear and in reverse.
The reason I hear that we don't have mini trucks anymore in Americais that the Ford Rangers/Chevy S-10/Dodge Dakotas were approaching the same price as a bottom of the line full size, and it was too dofficult to get mini trucks sold when for a couple grand more... you could have a full size truck.
Now in third world countries mini trucks thrive... they actually have diesel Rangers.
Great video. .. broufht back great memories
Is the speedometer accurate?
No idea...
That's one of the most cool-minded things ever said.
Gen light is for Generator. In other words the alternator is dying.
N.Y.C Department of Sanitation used the Chevy Luv for cleaning details all the way into the 1990s. Rookies loaded up 2 pails, 2 brooms and 2 shovels, the supervisor gave you and your partner a list of dirty blocks, or corners in N.Y.C they wanted cleaned and swept. "What are you doing today buddy?" "Chevy Luv" "oh cool!!" After all the Chevy Luvs were phased out, we used the F-150, or just take a garbage truck. We missed the Chevy Luv when it went away. Good little work horse.
This video really made me miss my first truck: a 1992 Nissan Hardbody
Hustler trucks for the win!
+dylan5567 I loved my 1990 Nissan. Complete no-frills utility. Regular cab, 5-speed, 2.4L 4-cyl. The only option it had was A/C. That little truck was a complete beast. I flogged the ever-loving hell out of it for 130K miles, never had a single mechanical issue. I abused the heck out of it too. Hauled and towed loads WAY beyond what it was rated for. Tough little machine. Probably the best all-around vehicle I have ever owned. Wish I still had it.
+Michael Kane I want a Nissan D21, preferably with the KA24E. Partly because it'll have the same engine as my 240sx project, but also because they're just good, rough-and-tumble trucks.
The *chicken tax* is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. *chicken*.
- from Wikipedia
VeeDees Productions What the actual fuck. It's real.
VeeDees Productions Thank you. This comment is brief, yet informative.
Specifically on foreign light trucks if I recall.
I knew what this was a while back but I have forgot, thanks for refreshing my memory.if I remeber correctly Subaru tried importing their mini truck called the brat and to get around the chicken tax they put these little seats in the bed of the truck so they could label it a passenger vehicle. The most sketchy seats of all time lol
Anthony Mense Ford still does that with the Transit Connect. Every van is imported with windows and seats in the back. Then when they arrive they are converted to cargo vans
I used to have an 81 Luv with 4x4. It was the best 900 bucks I ever spent.
I got rid of it when the timing chain tensioner broke and I was tired of only going a max speed of 55mph
Still have my '82 4x4. Between it and my 86 D21, have never needed another vehicle.
Easy fix bad move selling it
I'm sure someone's said it but the GEN light on indicates a faulty generator (called an alternator nowadays).
I was about to say that lol
ScaryGhost1 alternators ,are not the same as generators ,they both charge the battery a generator uses direct current an alternator use alternating current . lot's of older imports came with generators , the military uses them still because they can be used the same as the power in your house .
jerry henderson Sure, but I think they were done with actual generators on cars back in the early 60s, it's just that the nomenclature stuck around a bit longer. So his alternator is probably going out.
When I was young, my dad had a dual-headlight Chevy Luv's that he made out of 3 other ones. Eventually he painted it pearl white and turned it into a drag-car. 2000 pounds with a 468 big block chevy and a TH400. Used to race at Lonestar Dragway outside Dallas, TX. Sure would love to find that Luv again!
That's a cute little truck. I like the styling.
Right after high school I had a 72 LUV with an MG interior, small block 350, turbo 350 trans, B&M slap shift and a 4 foot axle with skinnies up front & 50's on the back. I used to love that LUV!
Such fun little trucks. Wish I still had her today. Good luck with it!
Holy cow, I haven't seen a Chevy Luv in ages. Thanks RCR for showing that beaty. Forgot how cool those old Isuzu trucked looked.
Might want to fix the title. It isn't a 1997.
84Bronco351 HERF a DERF
Oh my god, Mr. Regular responded to me. Day= made. (Night actually, it's almost 1 A.M. Please review a 1987- 93 Mustang 5.0
84Bronco351 Morning, actually.
Norning
Day=ruined
Cause he responded to you and not me.
I love standard pickups. I have a standard 4x2 tacoma with a 4 banger and it may not be very fast but it's definitely fun to drive. I wish you could still get full size pickups with a manual transmission.
crephotos i have a 1992 4x2 4 banger 5 speed ranger and honestly it's all the truck 90% of people will ever need
***** Yea, it surprises me how much it can actually haul, doesn't handle like a truck either
I had a '92 Isuzu pickup, which came with exactly ONE option; air conditioning. It had factory manual steering, and a 5 speed manual trans---the shifter throws on that manual were absurdly long, like 12" front to back. It was also one of the very last vehicles sold with a carburetor in the US (maybe even THE last). It had all of the sophistication of a sledgehammer, but it always ran....one of the most dependable vehicles I ever had.
You all should do a review on a Honda del Sol!!!!
I loved all the tiny trucks that were out in the 70s and 80s, it's the LUV and the Volks pickup that I really dig.
Find an Oldsmobile Toronado, the official car of "These anal beads don't really fit but damn it honey, we're gonna try this at least once."
nknasi The first gen Toronadoes are damn sexy, though. Especially with the rocket v8
i like it
This chevy looks like the words "Root beer"
Well done of you @RegularCars to end it like you did, trying to say you're going fast and/or not "mature" enough at the wheel, when We All know you drive like a Pro and one of a kind!!
There's someone under the username Kalyn Moiri that seems to have ripped off all of your videos on their channel. Just thought I'd let you know
That truck is awesome! I wish they had something like this today.
A Chevy luv is what I learned to drive on and I’m 18. 1981 Chevy luv 4 speed 4wd 1.8 liter 4 cylinder. That pickup was awesome dad still has it but is selling it.
Oh man this takes me right back to high school. Luv with house speakers and mustang seats in the back with the stuffed party wolf holding a beer and a smoke. Luvs ate timing chains and sounded way cooler with the air cleaner off.
The mini truck wars
Chevrolet/Isuzu - Ford/Mazda - Chrysler/Mitsubishi - Chrysler also had there car based mini trucks, The Scamp and Rampage
Is the subaru baha a mini truck?
Hunter Paige it might be Baja, I don't fucking know haha.
Hunter Paige Nope, the Baja is on the legacy/outback platform so it can be classified as something else. Subaru DID make a mini truck to get around the chicken tax, it was called the Brat. The think had like 80 something horsepower, " 4x4 drive" since the term AWD didn't really get around in the 80s, and had seats in truck bed facing backwards....and perfectly legal.
Phil Rutherford Just like the Baja, the brat was also a "minitruck" version of a car. The brat was a Leone, which was the impreza of the 70s and 80s.
Phil Rutherford If I'm not mistaken, they put those rear-facing seats in the Brat in order to classify it as a "passenger car" rather than a pickup truck.
The chicken tax was first imposed by Europe on the U.S. as a tariff on imported chicken meat as right after WW2, the supply chain infrastructure for poultry was not only untouched by war but dirt cheap because of the wide open spaces of our country. In a never ending pre GATT world with retaliatory action after retaliatory action this same tariff eventually found its way to light commercial vehicles. Now there being a very large pickup truck market and larger margins on bigger vehicles Detroit wanted to keep making the large trucks so the chicken tax on light commercials never went away. Now some car companies have resorted to building the small vehicles in America, with varying degrees of success, but in most other countries in the world, you won't see a 150 or Silverado or Ram, you see these light trucks and the tax never went away.
In Australia, where I am from these small vehicles are marketed to the blue collar tradesman quite successfully, where over here you seem to lose your proverbial man card if you drive something smaller than a snooker table.
Today the Ford Transit Connect built in Turkey comes as a passenger vehicle with seats in it. It doesn't come off the boat as a stripped van, so as a dodge to said chicken tax, Ford strips and destroys the back seats of all such vehicles intended to serve van duty. I don't know how Ford does this with such impunity but it might have to do with the fact that States register vehicles and the Feds do customs.
Paul Blackman Thank you sir, I had no idea of that part of the history of vehicle taxation.
The US has some of the most asinine vehicle importing/registration laws I've ever seen.
This reminds me of when TH-camr Mustie1 took my Sonett for a drive.
Saab Sonett broh!
i love his response to the seat belt being twisted
I drove a '79 Isuzu Pup in Australia once. It had a 4 speed on the column. This truck sounds much nicer to shift. Good looking little rig. I miss Japanese mini trucks, and just simple, honest, non-pretentious trucks in general.
I didn't know I needed one of these, thanks.
My first truck was a 79 Luv . Fond memories
Bring back the mini trucks, but please God! Let them all be manual transmissions with air conditioning!
You finally did a mini truck!!! Thank you!!
We need more trucks like this...
i had 2 of these in 4x4. great little truck and fun to drive.
Love these LUVs! They're a pickup version of the Isuzu Florian sedan (hence the car-like qualities with the ride and the shifter). I love it because it's tangentially related to a Giugiaro-designed car, the Isuzu 117 Coupe, which was also Florian-based.
Your voice is perfect for a family guy character.
Love '70s trucks. My uncle has a 1976 Datsun 620, quad headlamps
Liked those had one in high school. Blue with black interior, Chrome three spoke steering wheel, 8 inch baby moons on back 7 inch on front. We used a torch to blue the moons just a little. Glass pack muffler and CB, West coast mirrors.
My friends neighbor had one when I was much younger. I would always kind of stared at it when I was going past.
OMG, I forgot all about these things, and I for some reason had a model of one of these things that I remember having a lot of fun building
When I was in high school, our student parking lot was full of those!
I'm 6'4" and I own drive, a 73 LUV.
and frankly I prefer driving it over my other classics at times. A 79 Ford f100 Ranger. And a 63 Chevy Apache. And rebuilding my Dad's 59 Apache as well, original owner..
Review a 1991ish Infiniti Q45a. Make sure it has the A The one with the active suspension. I used to work for Infiniti and that car was wild as hell, really different, a unicorn.
That trucks adorable!
I'd love to own a small truck because you don't have to give up what you like about cars just to be able to tow stuff around.
I guess in that way, SUVs are essentially the modern "mini pickup"
This video made me want a Chevy Luv so much. Good Video RegularCars to bad you cant do a full review.
When heard it clicking into gear, I am pretty sure it is the same gearbox that Isuzu used here in Australia for both the Holden Gemini and the old Holden One-Tonne utes, before we got the Rodeo.
My dad had one think it was a 76 or 77 he painted it himself camo was a great little truck wish we still had it
A friend of my father had one of these back about 1990 and it was a '72. He got it for $50 and beat on it for years. I love older trucks. I have a '74 Ford F-100 but I would like to snag either an early Subaru Brat or a Chevy Courier to go with it.
I borrowed one of these back in 1985 to move some furniture. The clutch was so stiff, I had to use all my strength to press the pedal. I don't think it had a power assisted clutch. I never borrowed that truck again.
I miss mini trucks of any brand.
I did the same thing. Bought a Nissan 720 as my first car and taught myself manual on the way home. I miss that thing so much. The frame started to go on it :(
...learned stick in my brothers white Isuzu PUP at about 14...good memories...DAMN YOU CHICKEN TAX...!!!...
Very cool little truck. I don't understand the chicken tax but mini trucks are the best. Bring them back
The GEN light was a Chevy thing in the 70s. You replace your GENerator with an alternator and it leaves that light on forever. My friend has a '77 Nova, same thing. No matter the condition of the alternator.
77 nova came with alternator. You have to go back to the 50's maybe some 60's to see generators.
They kinda go with oil bath breathers.
Sounds like an MGB shifter. So nice to move in and out of gear.
The Chevette of pickups.
The most common mini trucks here in Sweden are the WV Caddy and the Skoda Felicia, they are absolutely everywhere. Cheap too, 600-700 bucks will get you a post -96 model in good contidion.
Nice drive of an interesting import, just wish that fluffy sunshade wasn't blocking the windshield!
That dash is too cool!
I had a new yellow 1981 Chevy LUV. Great Isuzu engine until it rained then my truck would just cut out as I was driving down the road. I was always hunting for the right gear and never found it....
always liked the luv my dad had ome the biggest issue is the throw out bearing collar is plastic and doesnt hold up well over time
I had a 73 courier. very similar to the luv. I wanted to do a 5.0 swap on that thing and toss in the 5.0 trans. It never happened but now I want a courier just to complete that build. lol
Gen means that the Altinator isnt charging the battery
That's a handsome little truck that. Shame us Brits see no point in pickups but I see the appeal in this one. Saying that though, the Original Volkswagen Caddy is fairly popular here
I had a friend with one of these and it was a dually. That must be pretty rare. I don't know if is factory.
I thought this looked familiar. We had these in Australia as the Isuzu KB up till 1980 when it was rebadged as the Holden Rodeo
what a cool lil truck
My grandpa is rebuilding a 41 chevy hot rod and has a jack daniels overflow and a gauge built into a Bush light can
I haven't seen one of these in years that wasn't a rust bucket,and most of them around here were 4 wheel drive.
RegularCars Mr. Regular, where's your Top Gear audition bit?
7:50
Did exactly the same thing. Had my brother drive me assuming he knew how so I ended up driving it back. The test drive was embarrassing as hell, but the dude was cool about it. Stalled a few times on the way back, took a few days to learn rev matching and it's already second nature.
Garrett Barnhart also at 7:50 you see Mr. Regular's face in the mirror.
4sf3d4g63 oh shiet, nice catch. aviators and handlebars? this dude is top notch.
If you end up in socal sometime, you should check out my '74 ford courier. Same chicken tax setup; they imported a truck frame from mazda (therefore not importing a truck) and bolted a bed on it stateside.
Just a fun little truck with tons of low end torque, and absolutely no power. It's slow and lovely.
rasvial The difference, is mine works like new, he's got a few naggles. Mind you.. like new doesn't mean much, it was the base model of entry level mini trucks in 74.. but if you like that concept- a 2500lb truck with a 1.8l i4, its perfect.
Mini trucks are trucks for real people who don't need a "TRUUCKCKSKKKKJARHHGHGHGHMURICA"
i believe isuzu used that gearbox in the pizza turbo and the isuzu/gm holden gemini .
Wait, theres a car called "pizza"?
1979 the pleasure principal and the dope ass love truck.
The LUV models are still alive and well here in Chile where they proved to be quite popular. They're not so "mini" anymore though.
Cevy luvs were geared like big trucks took a lot get them rolling , the engine timing played a big part in that
If you come to wa ill let you drive my 91 s10 2.5l five speed. Its a reliable daily. I had a 84 four speed camaro with get this, a 2.5l. Every day someone said put a v8 in it but it was so good on gas and i daily drove it. Thats the dntire reason i picked a 2.5l s10.
If you ever come to Cincy, I got an 1980 Corolla Wagon you can test out.
I had a friend that had one with the diesel talk about a robust and reliable truck.
Great high school truck !
I had a 81 model of the LUV and it has a completely different body and was a 4x4. I think that there's a market in the US for mini trucks and It's unfortunate that they don't sell them here. One thing I would have improved on the one I had was the frame it needed to be better coated or thicker steel so that it doesn't rust through and fall apart.
Regarding the transmission, it's probably a car transmission, and a short differential (4.3-4.5 to 1, where a passenger vehicle would run around 3.9:1) I'm in Australia and we got the Subaru Brat (called a Brumby here, with no back seats)
Never heard of the car, it's all kinds of adorable and it does seem useful too, please do look into that Chicken Tax thing I wanna know now
Chevy half-ton Luv, x2, was the jingle. I believe the Courier was the mazda "p'up" or some short name like that
HA, The Jack Daniel's jerry rig.
What does an overflow bottle do, is it relieving pressure from the radiator or something? I'm a computer tech, not a car guy, sorry if it's a stupid question.
Creepy Productions Just catches any coolant overflow when the coolant heats up and expands. And if the coolant gets way too hot and turns to steam, that's where your radiator cap comes into play. The radiator cap will "vent" if a certain amount of pressure is reached.
It keeps dogs from dying.
When the coolant heats to operating temp it expands and the excess goes in the overflow tank and if set up right will siphon it back in as it cools. Otherwise once it expanded then cooled the coolant level would be low util heated back up. Older cars just vented the hot coolant towards the ground. They used higher PSI.caps back then, usually when they vented coolant they were hot and it sounds pretty violent spewing the coolant out.
Gen warning light means generator, which means alternator.
Had a 79 Luv in high school, my dad put a 260ci Olds engine and trans (think th200) in it, ton of fun until I hit a deer at 45mph
I love that LUV.
Can you make a review for a 2004 Saab 9-3 aero convertible. I have one and would like to see a video about it, it's kind of rare so not a lot of videos about them.
Compared to all the F350s around my town, my 2002 Silverado is a pretty small truck. But this thing looks smaller than an S10! Wow.
I think someone is stealing your videos. Their channel name is car reviews 2015.
*car review 2015
Isaiah Sampson channel/UCphlNk25XC8vdRdcXvmQn-w/videos
Over 200 stolen videos.... shit.
Daniel P.S Yea it showed up in the suggested videos
Isn't it ridiculous that we can't report the channel for impersonation because we "do not legally represent RegularCars" ?
Isaiah Sampson there are a lot of copying channels.
Sunshade goes up. Sunshade goes down.
A lot of Chevys start out well in 2nd. Did this one since it's technically not a Chevy?
will you ever do a 2004 bmw m3? I think it falls under the "regular car" price at around 12k. Im getting one soon and if you dont do the car by then i'd gladly let you use mine. I live in md
I miss the mini trucks. I think the last one sold in America was the subaru baja. I think. If you count that as a truck.
Are you going to review a MK4 Supra in the future? I just saw your MK3 video and you seemed to really enjoy it. I hope you do eventually review one.
I don't see a mark 3 supra.
He's never reviewed an mk3 supra
boofighter Its a POV review of a 1jz swapped mk3.
YoungClickClack It was a POV video.
If I was to get a truck, I'd want something like this. A little utility vehicle to carry whatever I needed around... Please make something like this again... please?
I work in a car dealership and one of the traded in cars I got in had the sun visers drywall screwed into the roof
Think you'd ever do a review of a chevy/geo metro. I think it holds an interesting place in automotive history. Cheap as hell, sips gas, low insurance rate. A true economy car.
You haven't visited Europe or Japan, haven't you? Economy cars are things like a Peugeot 106, an Opel Corsa or a freaking Kei car
Neither has RCR nor are those vehicles available stateside. It'd be kind of hard for him to review them. Plus it's hard to beat a car that you can pick up for $500 American that gets over 50 mpg.
Tommy Long Might as well just ride a scooter or small motorcycle, much more fun.
Warning, Danger To Manifold ! Tommy Long Something like a Peugeot 106, Renault Cilo, Opel Corsa, Toyota Yaris, etc can get you sometimes over 60mpg on mixed roads (40% street - 30% highways - 30% motorways)
Here is a few examples of European economy cars www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/picturegalleries/9282997/The-10-most-economical-cars-on-sale.html All get over 75mpg