Looks like I found another entry for the impossible dream imports list.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 12/10/2015 at 12:43 • Filed to: None

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The Type 95 “ !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ”. Translates as “BLACK STEEL”. Yes, it’s 4wd. Yes, it’s also so tiny that it’s probably outweighed by most side-by-side ATVs. Yes further, it looks like a barrelnose Ford truck as seen through a smashed kaleidoscope prism while on LSD.

Is it insanely rare? Well, of course. Less than 5,000 were made, and for a wartime vehicle used by the Japanese across the islands, that’s not a good survival prospect. Some of the only ones that exist appear to be the one above, a wreck on a south seas island, one in a museum with its wheels off, and... this one:

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/10/2015 at 12:44

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Data here:

http://www.jsae.or.jp/autotech/data_…

HammerheadFistpunch > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/10/2015 at 12:48

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Its like it was in a cars movie first, and THEN brought into the real world.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > HammerheadFistpunch 12/10/2015 at 12:52

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That’s kind of it, really. It doesn’t look like it could possibly be a real car. It’s all these little ideas of what a 30s-40s Jeep-ish car should look like, rolled up into a ball, compressed, and then actually built. It’s a Jeep, it’s an Opel Blitz, it’s a Benz command car, a Kubelwagen, a Dodge WC... all rolled into one and turned into an angry dwarf. With style.

McMike > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/10/2015 at 12:55

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Doug’d

Tohru > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/10/2015 at 12:55

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You could just build one. It's small enough.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > McMike 12/10/2015 at 13:04

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I wish. I really do. That would be so impossible to guess a bot playing 20 questions could try hundreds of times and not get it, and if he could find one for sale, he could easily afford it. The acme of “rare, but not in demand”, not to mention “usable every day, but utterly insane”.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/10/2015 at 13:05

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Wonder if there are any left in China, being used as farm implements.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Tohru 12/10/2015 at 13:06

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While this is true, that feels like cheating somehow. Though there are few enough pieces you could match everything nearly perfectly, down to the labels in Chrysanthemum-laden Emperor-crazy Japanese.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 12/10/2015 at 13:07

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There could very well be. I mean, I don’t speak Russian and skipped through the video, but the one in Russia appears to be “so somebody around here just has one for hyucks, lol”.

Berang > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/10/2015 at 13:20

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Still not as cool as an LJ10.

Unless it’s a 2-stroke.

Jdrentarol > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/10/2015 at 13:33

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WOW that is short and misproportional

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Berang 12/10/2015 at 13:36

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It’s not a two-stroke, but it *is* a 1.4L 33hp air-cooled OHV V-twin. I would argue that crank start is a point in its favor.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Jdrentarol 12/10/2015 at 13:38

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The Jeep: designed to fit four troops. The Kurogane: “Nah, three dudes, and only if they don’t bring gear, are tiny, and really friendly.”