Upcoming Aoshima Pickup Releases

[Jordan White]

Thanks to Makoto Ukai on Facebook, some pics from the All Japan hobby show.

Stock version of the Toyota Hilux regular cab

Stock 4x4 version of the older Hilux kit

Stock 4x4 version of the Datsun 720

[niteowl7710]

This sorta thing has been needed since these kits were tooled in 2003 (single cab HiLux) and 2001/1980 for the older HiLux (the body is from an old motorized toy, and the rest of the lowrider model kit was tooled in '01). The Nissan 720 has the same lineage - old body with 2001 low rider kit added.

Funny 20yrs later they finally got around to it, but I'll take it without too many arguements.

[tim boyd]

We still need a US-spec kit of the classic 1983 Toyota SR5 4x4 with the three-tone side graphics as found in every high school parking lot in So-Cal/Nor-Cal back then.  Some kits have gotten close (a curbside AMT kit comes to mind) but I don't believe I've ever seen the exact spec cited above.  Or did it come out and I just missed it?  TB 

[Hondamatic]

Would love a 2wd front end on the 90s toyota

Surprised nobody ever made the later 80s toyota either 

[Radretireddad]

I love the Texas plates and RH drive on the white one.?

[Jordan White]

10 minutes ago, Radretireddad said:

I love the Texas plates and RH drive on the white one.?

Hopefully it’s like the Hilux Surf kit and also includes the LHD interior!

[martinfan5]

Very happy to see all these getting done,  figures, I kit bashed several Hilux kits a few years ago to make a stock long bed US version .    I am going assume the LHD parts will be included since its being done as the USDM version and they just used the RHD for the show display.

Happy to see them finally doing stock-ish version of the two low riders kits.

[iamsuperdan]

I've built the 4 door crewcab version. That white reg cab should do very well.

[DJMar]

7 hours ago, tim boyd said:

We still need a US-spec kit of the classic 1983 Toyota SR5 4x4 with the three-tone side graphics as found in every high school parking lot in So-Cal/Nor-Cal back then.

Yes please!

Also, I'm pretty stoked to see the 720. I owned one back in the late 90s as a work truck and loved it.

Any idea if and/or when these will be coming our way?

[niteowl7710]

4 hours ago, Jordan White said:

Hopefully it’s like the Hilux Surf kit and also includes the LHD interior!

 

4 hours ago, martinfan5 said:

Very happy to see all these getting done,  figures, I kit bashed several Hilux kits a few years ago to make a stock long bed US version .    I am going assume the LHD parts will be included since its being done as the USDM version and they just used the RHD for the show display.

Happy to see them finally doing stock-ish version of the two low riders kits.

The single cab pickup has always come with USDM parts, apparently those are seen as more desirable in Japan for some reason. Also the single cab has NEVER come with the LHD parts included, as it's a separate tooling created in 2001 vs. 1991 for the quad cab HiLux & HiLux Surf.

[Robberbaron]

Shouldn't the wheels on the orange and black trucks be 6-lugs?  I thought all these 70s and 80s Japanese trucks were 6-lug, like the white truck.

(No real knowledge of these trucks, just seem to remember that from back in the day.)

[Mark]

Not sure about the 4 X 4 versions, but Toyota 2WD pickups used the 5-on 4-1/2 lug pattern for a long time.  That's the same as many Ford, Mopar, and AMC products.  Only one GM car used it that I'm aware of ('61-'63 Pontiac Tempest).

[DJMar]

15 hours ago, Robberbaron said:

Shouldn't the wheels on the orange and black trucks be 6-lugs?  I thought all these 70s and 80s Japanese trucks were 6-lug, like the white truck.

The Datsun/Nissan 720s used 6 lug wheels, in both 2wd and 4wd versions. The model shown here (black truck with orange/red decals) has 5 lugs and is not correct.

[martinfan5]

20 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:

 

The single cab pickup has always come with USDM parts, apparently those are seen as more desirable in Japan for some reason. Also the single cab has NEVER come with the LHD parts included, as it's a separate tooling created in 2001 vs. 1991 for the quad cab HiLux & HiLux Surf.

I meant LHD parts , but for some reason I typed USDM, dunno why I did that.

[tim boyd]

On 10/11/2024 at 4:21 PM, DJMar said:

Yes please!

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Yep DJ, that's one of them...I remember that these bad boys were ubiquitous on the lower left coast at the time... perhaps not so much elsewhere in the States as Toyota's Distribution system at the time was not as well developed and also included some regional distributors (i.e. Jim Moran/Southeast Toyota) that were not factory owned. 

I recall the blue stripped version to be particularly popular...

TB

 

Edited October 12, 2024 by tim boyd

[oldcarfan]

Here's hoping these kits sell well enough to inspire them to do a certain other Toyota truck!

[niteowl7710]

3 hours ago, oldcarfan said:

Here's hoping these kits sell well enough to inspire them to do a certain other Toyota truck!

I've never understood why that kit doesn't exist, especially given Aoshima's decades long obsession with the movie.

[gray07]

love these trucks, i had a datsun two wheel drive in 1980s until someone ran into it and totaled it, but my question, is models real big in japan

[stitchdup]

12 minutes ago, gray07 said:

love these trucks, i had a datsun two wheel drive in 1980s until someone ran into it and totaled it, but my question, is models real big in japan

yes, models are very popular in japan. moon even have model sections at their japanese shows and the big hrcs yokohama show

[oldcarfan]

2 hours ago, stitchdup said:

yes, models are very popular in japan. moon even have model sections at their japanese shows and the big hrcs yokohama show

Glad to hear that! Japanese culture seems to be big in this country, maybe model car building will filter in too. My son loves anime and all things Japan when it comes to food. He's built some Gundam but now he's in college and has no room in his dorm, so that ended that.

[martinfan5]

The BTTF version would be an instant buy for me, hoping Aoshima's love affair with the movies will motivate them to do it.