Budget pickup £7k an under

Cowabunga

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Ceredigion,Wales
For the opposing viewpoint, I've seen a Subaru where the drifts were up to bonnet height and the snow was parting at the windscreen. Most impressive small car performance I've ever witnessed.
Yes, for the first couple of drifts until the whole suspension is packed solid. I've drive one in such snow not just watched some Wally for a few minutes.
 

Highland Mule

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Livestock Farmer
Yes, for the first couple of drifts until the whole suspension is packed solid. I've drive one in such snow not just watched some Wally for a few minutes.
I suspect that not all Subaru are created equal. This was in the Highlands, where the level snow can be 3' deep and the drifts are 16'. It went a good half mile to get to the snowploughed tarmac, driven by my brother in law, not “some wally”.
 
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Wellytrack

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I put my old clanger up against the best of them often and for a sub £1k runaround it literally runs circles round Shoguns and Disco’s off road.

Won’t have the comfort or the long distance legs of a Disco 3 or 4 though. Or tow more than two tons.
 
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Maybe not for off road, but thought it looked a handy tool for 5k and over 50mpg think they can carry 1t in the back👍
 

Boydvalley

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Location
Bath
Would have been around ‘88 and it was a dark dark red. 1.6D
Would of been a Mk1. Had a white one I wrote off followed by a red one. Brilliant pickups for running around in. Did well over 50mpg. Light truck but heavy motor. Surprisingly good off road. If it wouldn’t go uphill forward would usually fly up in reverse using the weight of the engine. Rust killed the last one
one on eBay the other day £10,000
 

Wellytrack

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Would of been a Mk1. Had a white one I wrote off followed by a red one. Brilliant pickups for running around in. Did well over 50mpg. Light truck but heavy motor. Surprisingly good off road. If it wouldn’t go uphill forward would usually fly up in reverse using the weight of the engine. Rust killed the last one
one on eBay the other day £10,000

My aunt wrote his off about '93. It was immaculate, even had little alloys on it.

Don't think he ever got over it.
 

Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
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Maybe not for off road, but thought it looked a handy tool for 5k and over 50mpg think they can carry 1t in the back👍

Ugly duckling but one heck of a well designed 1 ton pickup for mainly road use. The bottom part under the deck has loads of storage capacity and the dropsides are good quality and the ladder rack is really heavy duty.
Not sure whether I'd risk buying an used one. Just a gut feeling.
 

Deutzdx3

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Maybe not for off road, but thought it looked a handy tool for 5k and over 50mpg think they can carry 1t in the back[emoji106]

I borrow a mates one every now and then, it’s the 1.6 diesel, not the fastest but it uses a thimble of fuel, carries 1t. Removable sides, Cab is massive, shocking off any thing that’s not tarmac with any sort of load on it. Brilliant machine if you don’t need 4wd
 

Pringles

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Location
West Fife
@cosmiccrofter Is that a Simca? Our father had a dark blue Simca van which looked remarkably like the one in your pic.

It was the most unreliable heap sh*t he said that he had ever owned. My memories of it consist of being shut in the back whilst father wandere off checking cattle or sheep. It didn’t have a release handle to open the tailgate from the inside and it had a bulkhead grill fitted so we were definitely “caged”.

It was a bitch to start then seemed to flood itself, which made the inside stink of half burnt petrol.

Perhaps we should have phoned childline!!!😂😂😂
 

Lincsman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
This was quite popular with farmers around here in the early seventies, quite good ground clearance and surprising good offroad with only
fromt wheel drive.


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Dad had one, a real rubbish van, at 18 months rust was oozing out all the seams, jumped off a worn suspension ball joint at 2 years old and less than 15K miles, a pain to start at times, it was swapped at 3 years old for one of the very first Fiesta vans, leagues ahead and was eventually converted into a car after 6 years for my sister.
 

Robt

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Location
Suffolk
I can still smell the inside of my fathers old Subaru fibreglass top. Spent hours locked inside there being told to keep quiet if we saw plod.
as I said earlier. Get as lower mileage newest l200
 

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