In response to the advert, right this moment’s Good Value or No Cube Chinook “runs and drives glorious” and even comes with a composting commode by which to do your enterprise. Let’s see if its worth may additionally imply enterprise.
Volvo has a protracted historical past of constructing handsome coupes. Some had been extra-special, just like the coachbuilt 1989 Bertone Coupe we ogled yesterday. Sadly for its vendor, lots of you didn’t discover that two-door enticing sufficient to warrant shelling out the $12,000 requested for its buy. The outcome? A considerable 78 % No Cube loss.
Contemplating that this week’s U.S. elections most likely didn’t work out the best way some could have wished, a couple of people could also be planning to get away from all of it, no less than for some time. Ought to that be the case, right this moment’s 1977 Toyota Chinook is likely to be the proper hideaway. And it’s cellular!
The gas crises of the Nineteen Seventies wreaked havoc on gross sales of motor properties and journey trailers as gasoline turned more and more costlier and, typically, subsequent to unimaginable to search out. That led to the appearance of a spate of smaller, extra gas environment friendly RVs, together with the Chinook, constructed by Orange County, California-based Chinook Worldwide.
Up to date adverts described the Toyota Chinook as a “micro-mini motorhome” and touted the impressive-for-an-RV gas economic system, which was greater than double that of a bigger, extra conventional rig. The partnership between Chinook and Toyota ran from 1973 by means of ’78, with each corporations contributing enhancements to the campers alongside the best way. Afterward, Chinook continued constructing campers independently and remains to be round right this moment. It ought to be famous that Toyota can also be nonetheless in enterprise.
This Chinook hails from the second to final mannequin yr and has a strengthened body and later 2399cc 22R SOHC 4 consequently. These are constructed on the Toyota Hello-Lux Pickup chassis, though a pass-through has been reduce between the camper physique and the cab, making for tight however attainable egress between the areas.
This camper comes with nearly all of the comforts of dwelling, together with a brand new gasoline/electrical fridge, two-burner hob, sink, and area heater. Additionally, for all you shy poopers, there’s a free-standing composting commode by which to do your soiled work “off the grid.”
In response to the advert, the truck works because it ought to, and has not too long ago acquired new water and gas pumps to maintain it so. Mated to the freshly pumped 97-horsepower 4 is a five-speed stick. The chassis is two-wheel drive.
Aesthetically, issues don’t look too unhealthy, though there are some tough edges and the canvas for the pop-top, whereas intact, seems moldy as all get out.
Within the cab, it’s all tidy if drained. Serape-style seat covers add a little bit of kitsch, as does some shag carpet and the sprint cap. The camper area seems simply as lived in however nonetheless completely serviceable and never with out its allure. And because the composting bathroom is moveable, you could possibly really take it to the forest and decide if a bear does, the truth is, shit within the woods.
The two,500 odometer studying touted within the advert seems suspiciously like a rollover, so who is aware of what number of miles this rig really has. The bottom is an outdated Toyota pickup, so how a lot that issues is debatable. In its favor, the camper has a clear title and, per the advert, a lot of upkeep data for some studying distractions. The price to make this your own home away from house is $5,200.
What’s your opinion on this Chinook and that $5,200 asking? Does that appear truthful, given its situation and presentation? Or, at that worth, as a substitute of planning to get away from all of it, would you relatively it simply went away?
You determine!
Seattle, Washington, Craigslist, or go right here if the advert disappears.
H/T to Don R. for the hookup!
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