Sorry, left off the link originally.  Here it is:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hiace.  According to this, the Toyota Hiace came in a camper version.  Of course, Toyota sold vans in this country from long ago.  Must be something other than emissions control that kept these from being marketed here.

mcneely

---- Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
> Don, are you talking about this?  Looks like Hiace is a Toyota van from this information.  mcneely
>
> ---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > I know it is not Friday but I saw a Nissan Hiace today, driving through town
> > and it went past my parked Vanagon.   They could be Clones.   Same size and
> > shape and this Nissan had a cool awning and it looked like a camping
> > interior.  Right hand drive and diesel.   Good looking modern beastie.
> > Didn't see the plates.  It looked to me like a modern Vanagon, but
> > Japanese.   I suppose the US forbids them being owned and registered here,
> > or we would all have them, I suppose.
> >
> >   I am going to do some research about those thingys...I owned a Nissan one
> > time and it was so dependable I never even knew what kinda motor was in
> > it...Gas and drive...change the oil...and a couple of hundered thousand
> > miles later, it got smooshed without ever giving me one single problem.  If
> > I could have a Vanagon-like Nissan...I certainly would be all over it.
> >
> >    The Nissan Hiace drivers were checking out my Vanagon as they drove
> > past.....wonder what they were saying to each other?
> >
> >   Don Hanson
>
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> David McNeely

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