Does This Go Faster?
Pick up your pickaxe and rend!
Welcome back to the lot! I have missed all of you. It has officially (been) fall in Heavenly country. We have been very busy up here! So much to do while the veil is so thin! Culling the deer population, swapping fluids, observing foliage, pounding bodywork, saying “it’s a mess in here,” losing at bar games, having a nice dinner, and fixing this Nissan.
Yes! A Heavenly Bodies exclusive! This is a 1994 Nissan D21 HARDBODY 4x4. Featuring that patent-pending heavenly bodies touch! I have spent about 6 months with the Hardbody, but it is time to keep the wheels-a-dealing. And for 2800 dollars, I think you could do great stuff, in this very truck.
The small truck occupies a special place in the American psyche, presenting a vast swath of reasonable possibility in its simple utility. We all know that new trucks are very big, and that small trucks are better, but that they deny us our medicine. That the truck’s design priorities have been so perverted by the very definition of what Americans consider labor, (towing a massive boat) that it now dwells deep in the postmodern simulacra zone. I will spare you the think piece (even though its my one-way ticket to hack-online-auto-commentator easy street). Instead I offer my solution!
A small truck from 1994! Tasks galore can be performed by this mighty mite. Its many textures show a life of steady and varied labors. With a cargo toolbox, headache rack, and off-road lighting, she is ready to take care of business! Listen, I kinda want this truck for myself, but it would also be great to not have 19 cars!
The Hardbody has proved to be an extremely reliable and handy truck. After months of tinkering, she run pretty good! (slap hood). The Ka-24 engine is a well loved 4-banger that is very agreeable to work on. There is little to confound in the way they put this thing together. Owner maintenance is a breeze. The 4x4 works great with a hi-lo case and limited slip differential which help make it a very capable little mountain goat. The 5-Speed transmission has a great throw and clicks into gear nicely. If ye be seeking a long haul commuter or a parkway cruiser, perhaps look elsewhere. The Hardbody is not quick! It is not particularly comfortable! The tape-deck “works” and it “works great” if you are still a big Chillwave fan! This is not for a life of leisure, it is ready for the fields, workshops and doomsday bunkers, homesteads. Feral farmers and scrap metal enthusiasts to the front!
Here at heavenly, we try to leave things a little better than we found them. That was not a difficult task for this chore truck. It received a new alternator and battery. A fuel pump and filter. A tune up, an oil change, shocks, brake pads and rotors. I also coated the frame in a thick layer of tractor paint to protect it from the winter elements. I am also pleased to report that the critter piss smell has been eliminated greatly reduced! Now it smells “like a urinal, in a good way”.
What more is there to say! It does not have cup-holders! It has 135,000 miles on the clock, a full tank of gas, 2 keys, 3 seat-belts, an annoying door chime, alloy wheels, off road lights, chrome power mirrors (crank windows), and some east coast rot. The Wham! cassette is not included! 2800! Kingston, NY! Only at Heavenly Bodies! Come take a gander, come take a test drive! This is the exclusive newsletter price! (2900 for unsubscribed filth! (3000 if you want the Wham! Cassette))
