Big Tonka Toy.. ‘95 Pajero SWB.. in Japan
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First purchase - the obligatory roof spoiler. I think they look bare without them.
Surprisingly difficult to find, so some work to be done with it...
It’s white for a start and it had a brake light. I don’t want one - there’s a high level brake light in the rear window.
So this is going to get filled in first... could go horribly wrong in my amateur hands
Surprisingly difficult to find, so some work to be done with it...
It’s white for a start and it had a brake light. I don’t want one - there’s a high level brake light in the rear window.
So this is going to get filled in first... could go horribly wrong in my amateur hands
Looks tidy!
I had a LWB later model a few years ago, it was a tank of a thing, 2.8 manual, absolutely drank fuel as mentioned (17mpg average I think) but there was something about it that I loved. They are proper
wagons though 😂
Mine had heated cloth seats which were the hottest heated seats I’ve ever had.
Also had a 2.8 challenger when I lived in New Zealand, that was actually a better car other than the fact the fuel pump seals leaked so it took a lot of cranking every morning to start due to air in the fuel.
I had a LWB later model a few years ago, it was a tank of a thing, 2.8 manual, absolutely drank fuel as mentioned (17mpg average I think) but there was something about it that I loved. They are proper
wagons though 😂Mine had heated cloth seats which were the hottest heated seats I’ve ever had.
Also had a 2.8 challenger when I lived in New Zealand, that was actually a better car other than the fact the fuel pump seals leaked so it took a lot of cranking every morning to start due to air in the fuel.
I had a 1992 lwb 2.5 manual that did without the wheelarch extensions.
It was laughably slow (it allegedly had 99BHP but I think some of those had gone missing) but still great fun in a weird sort of way.
I remember refuelling it the day after I collected it - the light wasn't on and I stopped at £75 and it still wasn't full.
That was in 2005!
Mine had the switchable dampers that still worked AND made a difference.
You could get it sideways in the wet round a mini roundabout at 10mph but it didn't have enough power for anything more.
I had a shot in a slightly later 2.8 shortie and it felt like an M car in comaprison!
I hope you enjoy it, I still miss mine 13 years after getting rid of it.
It was laughably slow (it allegedly had 99BHP but I think some of those had gone missing) but still great fun in a weird sort of way.
I remember refuelling it the day after I collected it - the light wasn't on and I stopped at £75 and it still wasn't full.
That was in 2005!
Mine had the switchable dampers that still worked AND made a difference.
You could get it sideways in the wet round a mini roundabout at 10mph but it didn't have enough power for anything more.
I had a shot in a slightly later 2.8 shortie and it felt like an M car in comaprison!
I hope you enjoy it, I still miss mine 13 years after getting rid of it.
zedstar said:
great purchase!
How did you get on buying it at the auctions? Did you look and bid yourself or did you have an agent?
Thanks How did you get on buying it at the auctions? Did you look and bid yourself or did you have an agent?
This time I kept an eye on the auctions myself as I enjoy doing that - jdmauctionwatch.com is the best I’ve found.
When I find one to bid on, there’s someone relatively local to me that does everything. There’s no warranty once I pick it up from him, but the fee is much lower than the big importers. It’s included in the £7400.
5 In a Row said:
I had a 1992 lwb 2.5 manual that did without the wheelarch extensions.
It was laughably slow (it allegedly had 99BHP but I think some of those had gone missing) but still great fun in a weird sort of way.
I dread to think what the 2.5 LWB Autos are like. The 2.5 SWB Autos are available too, but are unloved and cheap as a result. Not for me!It was laughably slow (it allegedly had 99BHP but I think some of those had gone missing) but still great fun in a weird sort of way.
My dad bought an imported Pajero circa 2001, it was a LWB with a 3.5 v6 petrol automatic in it. I seem to remember it was £100 to fill it up and it did high teens on the mpg front. The engine blew on it soon after he bought it and he then had to wait 4 months for a new engine from Japan to arrive, the importer gave him a diesel Pajero to run around in for the whole time.
So when we got it back with its new engine it was great, especially for towing my race car at the time. I was just turned 17 as well and due to a company policy I could drive the Pajero, 7 seats, loads of mates piled in it, I felt like the dogs bks driving it !! It used to do the longest, slowest power slides out of junctions in the wet too where the gearbox would just lazily switch itself up through all the gears because it thought you were going faster than you were!
I'd like a modern Shogun now to be honest, still prefer the looks over anything modern from JLR!
So when we got it back with its new engine it was great, especially for towing my race car at the time. I was just turned 17 as well and due to a company policy I could drive the Pajero, 7 seats, loads of mates piled in it, I felt like the dogs b
ks driving it !! It used to do the longest, slowest power slides out of junctions in the wet too where the gearbox would just lazily switch itself up through all the gears because it thought you were going faster than you were!I'd like a modern Shogun now to be honest, still prefer the looks over anything modern from JLR!
The wait is annoying though. I imported my Pajero Evo and the wait does seem like forever! Surprising how much the "normal" pajeros are going for now. I thought it was just the rarer one shooting up in value.
The really annoying bit is waiting for the V5 from DVLA which in the current climate of them being lazy striking assholes could be a while.
The really annoying bit is waiting for the V5 from DVLA which in the current climate of them being lazy striking assholes could be a while.
interstellar said:
Can you track it being shipped from Japan?
Also fun to see where it is on a boat somewhere
Yes absolutely. You get the name of the boat and Vessel Finder doesn’t even need a log in - you just type the name of it in and appears on the map and says where it’s headed.Also fun to see where it is on a boat somewhere
For example:
Psycho Warren said:
The wait is annoying though. I imported my Pajero Evo and the wait does seem like forever! Surprising how much the "normal" pajeros are going for now. I thought it was just the rarer one shooting up in value.
The really annoying bit is waiting for the V5 from DVLA which in the current climate of them being lazy striking assholes could be a while.
The US is importing some of them now, so the numbers of good ones are really dwindling in Japan. They didn’t get a SWB version back in the 90s.The really annoying bit is waiting for the V5 from DVLA which in the current climate of them being lazy striking assholes could be a while.
rossub said:
I dread to think what the 2.5 LWB Autos are like. The 2.5 SWB Autos are available too, but are unloved and cheap as a result. Not for me!
I had a 2.5 in an L200 and it was a dreadful thing! The 2.8s are slow but the 2.5 is another level of agricultural. I once got it to 94mph on the clocks so probably about 80 real speed and it was bloody scary! I used to use my 2.8 lwb for towing my 21ft Bayliner boat and I couldn’t actually feel it was attached, I once pulled a stuck car with a stuck boat behind it out of some deep mud with fairly bald tyres on the Paj and it still didn’t bother it one bit!
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