1998 Honda Acty Truck · 4WD · 78,600 mi

A Japanese import you can buy now — this 1998 Honda Acty Truck, white over its original panels. Recorded as 4WD with a 5-speed manual transmission. Its chassis number is HA4-2402032.

The details on this one

• Year: 1998
• Make: Honda
• Model: Acty Truck
• Chassis code: HA4
• Drivetrain: 4WD
• Transmission: 5-Speed Manual
• Odometer: 78,600
• Engine: E07A 660 cc
• Colour: White
• Chassis number: HA4-2402032
• Body type: Kei Truck / Mini Truck
• Stock reference: BUC20995

About the HA4 Acty

Built from 1990 until the Acty was redesigned in 1999, the HA4 pairs four-wheel drive with Honda's 656cc E07A triple, mounted under the load floor instead of under the seats. Honda engineered the whole second generation to the 3.30-metre kei length limit in force at the time, so the cab is pushed right to the front bumper. That packaging is the reason an Acty bed is usable at all on a vehicle this short.

This one reads 78,600 miles, about 126,500 km. Honda built the mid-mounted E07 engine for commercial use rather than for a passenger car, and figures in the high five digits are routine across the generation.

Reading the specification

A four-wheel-drive Acty takes its front drive from a transfer unit behind the mid-mounted engine and runs it forward beneath the cab. The arrangement is the reverse of a conventional truck, and it leaves the load bed completely unobstructed. For yard work, a smallholding or a site road, the useful part is that the driven rear axle carries both the engine and the payload.

Below $5,000 you are buying age and mileage rather than specification. What you get for it is a road-registerable vehicle with a real bed and a real cab for less than a decent side-by-side costs.

How to take it

At 1998 it is past the 25-year mark, which is the line that decides whether a Japanese-market vehicle can be imported at all. Import documentation and titling are handled at our end, and we ship nationwide. A walkaround clip sits with the photographs on this page. The asking price is $4,040 — contact us to reserve it.