@a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca, I've heard your call. Here is my 1996 Mitsubishi Delica, I bought it for just $4000 (best purchase of my life) a few years ago. It's not exactly sexy, but it does have a 3.0 V6, a locking transfer case with a low gear, a rear LSD, ~3cm lift kit, AT tires and a "can-do" attitude. It can seat 8 (9 if you're adventurous), and the two rear seat rows fold flat into a bed.
My gf and I spent like half of last year living in it, including 3 months continuously, and the rest of the time it was hauling my friends to mountain hike trailheads. We used it to travel all over Georgia, with a lot of offroad stuff - it hung out pretty well with a stock FJ80 once! Unfortunately, we had to move from Georgia and so we have to sell it now. Oh how much I will miss it! Hope the new owners have their fun in it too
More pics
This is the time we accidentally spilled an entire 10 L bottle of water into the mattress and had to dry it out. Thankfully the 1000m climb up to the lake made the engine quite hot!
This was a new years trip, we slept in the car on a nearby lake when it was -20℃ out. It was really fucking cold but thanks to good sleeping bags and blankets we made it through OK
This was from our 3-months-long trip. Both pictures have been taken in Svaneti.
Looks like it was a fine machine o7
Mine is a Chamonix Mont-Blanc (a "luxury" trim) with a naturally aspirated petrol V6, hence it doesn't have an intercooler. For some reason most Delicas in Georgia are the petrol variety (mine also has a homebrew LPG system).
Yep! They banned importing old cars into Georgia now, so despite the ~60k km I put on it and some slight damage I've done to it over the years, I'm pretty sure I will be able to sell it for the same price as I got it for. It is still highly valued by mountain guides here because it very comfortably seats 6 or 7 people and can easily take them to the middle of nowhere. So if you're looking for a nostalgia hit, consider going there and taking a mountain tour :)