Weird looking thing

tamarillo, Mar 13, 7:26pm
This is just odd, looks like cab of small truck grafted on to hiace body.
Has 4 litre turbo diesel with 5 speed auto!
https://trademe.tmcdn.co.nz/photoserver/full/369629109.jpg

Just looks wrong!

jmma, Mar 13, 7:29pm

tamarillo, Mar 13, 7:30pm
Yep, but still looks like a home made thing!

kazbanz, Mar 13, 7:35pm
They ALL look like that--all the van ones.
truth be known you have hit nail on the head.
Dyna is really a cab n chassis. then flatdeck or futon body or whatever is fitted. In that case--yep hiace body with a bit of panel steel to join .--all factory.

seadubya, Mar 13, 7:50pm
I have seen a few of those around for a while now, wasn't there an earlier model Dyna van that didn't have the hiace rear? I think the wierdest are the triple cab Dynas.

tamarillo, Mar 13, 8:41pm
Guessing they weren't exported new.
Some of the jap market stuff is totally weird, but fun!
It actually appears a damn good truck/van, brilliant if you had a crew and a heavy trailer to pull!

stevo2, Mar 14, 3:49am
A bit heavier duty than yer standard Hiace but dont drive as well. A bit more truck-like.

kazbanz, Mar 14, 7:44am
That's cos it IS a truck.
Im not sure that they weren't sold new in NZ. Not the van version but cab n chasis or box body. Might be even they were sold here new with a different badge.

attitudedesignz, Mar 14, 8:28am
Never seen one with a 'sofa bed' before kaz'. Maybe ya meant 'Luton'? LOL

nightboss, Mar 14, 8:44am
They are Toyota designed. Sold as Daihatsu Delta, Toyota Dyna and Hino Dutro.

The place I worked in late '90s had 4x NZ new Daihatsu Delta's like that.

seadubya, Mar 14, 8:50am

tamarillo, Mar 14, 9:31am
They all look perfectly normal machines! It's the grafting on of a hiace body and the weird roofline in that van one that just looks wrong.

ema1, Mar 14, 11:59am
It's a wonder they didn't use the HiAce HiTop roof panels to make the grafted on look a bit less obvious?

motorboy2011, Mar 14, 12:24pm
It's trade vehicle, who cares what it looks like.

nightboss, Mar 14, 12:56pm

monzaman, Mar 14, 12:59pm
They do have a hi-roof version.

monzaman, Mar 14, 1:03pm
There is also a '90s hiace I've seen with dyna split back doors.

gedo1, Mar 14, 2:25pm
The lines division of the Posts Office had them way back when. before it became Telecom. Got one by tender they were on selling, for a friend who wanted it to tow his trailer yacht.

richardmayes, Mar 14, 2:35pm
Dynas have 24v electrics like a grown-up truck.

(I know this because I once worked for a company that had mostly hiaces, and one old Dyna, and it took the bosses a long time to figure out why the Dyna kept blowing up all the light bulbs in the company trailers!)

So the ones that have a Hiace Van body are presumably intended for companies that run mostly trucks, and want a van with all systems compatible. ?

budgel, Mar 15, 9:31am
Gawd, you really dont know how competitive tradies are about their trucks?

ema1, Mar 15, 5:11pm
Blimey those still look rather obvious?

captaink, Apr 29, 11:51pm
Non of the Route vans I imported were 24volt. Very popular with forestry contractors. Truck chassis with van comforts, of sorts.