1984 Mazda b2200. Factory Perkins diesel truck

-Roll bar made from left over roll cage tubing\r
-racing fuel cell as fuel tank\r
-Ford starter solenoid and push button glow plugs \r
-Bush guard\r
-Robins nest grill (forgot to mention in video but you can see it\r
-Custom a/c \r
-Siliconed wind shield\r
-Bush guard\r
-paint job done with a roller\r
-Fuel door delete. It finally rusted and fell off during the making of the above video\r
-$30 glass pack with side exit exhaust

5 years ago I got the truck. It was parked in a field because the fuel tank rotted off. It sat in the field for 7 at the time I got it, so in 2008ish you couldn’t buy parts for these as they only made it for 2 years; 83 & 84. It is mechanically identical to the ranger you had featured on the channel many moons ago with the exception that the Mazda came with an rx7 5 speed transmission instead of the ranger 4 speed. The roll bar in the back was made from left over roll cage tubing from my race car build. The bush guard was $30 on Kijiji. The fuel cell came from another race car build etc. If roll cage tubing hadn’t sky rocketed in price in the last couple years because of tariffs (more than a $1 an inch to buy!) I would have built a complete exoskeleton for it by now. \r
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The most expensive part of the entire build was the booze consumed during the build and yes it does get driven on the street!\r
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Disclaimer: the only thing worse than my camera skills are my video editing skills so it all had to be done in one take.