I ended up buying an '84 Mazda B2000. Same thing as a Ford Courier.
The floors and the body are solid and the truck is mostly straight except for the hood (which is fucked) and the roof (which is not too bad). And it was originally white but it's had a crappy Maaco/Earl Schieb re-spray in burgundy. Which clashes hard with the blue interior, lol.
I bought the truck telling myself I wouldn't be making it into a project, but I'm having dirty thoughts about a swap. There are plenty of them with Rotary swaps on the Mazda froums, and a few with the SVO/Turbo Coupe motors. I think it might be cool to do one of the DOHC Miata motors, or a Zetec or Duratec. The Duratecs are easily found at Pull-A-Part and supposedly they can be built to make impressive power. The truck is a body-on-frame (not unibody) so mounting an engine should be pretty easy.





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