P.O.V. Drive: 1979 Chevy LUV
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- The Chevy LUV is a captured import Isuzu Faster pickup truck. Of all the cars I've driven in RCR, this LUV had the best-feeling gearbox. It clicks out of one gear and clicks into the next.
LUV = Light Utility Vehicle
Before I knew that, I thought the name was some sort of joke.
Life is good when a woman comes over in the grocery store parking lot and say, "Ooo baby, a Chevy LUV!!! It happens, at least in New Mexico where people love old cars. Top speed about 45-50, perfect. You are right, great transmission. I had the same one in my 83 S-10. Also an Izuzu.
@@rhllnm s-10's were not isuzu. They were true chevys.
LOVE it! Kind of has a rat rod theme going on. Jack bottle. oh yes.
Could he get busted for open container with that bottle?
Street Speed 717 we used to have one best pickup in the world in my opinion
God I miss small trucks. It seems like everyone in my area that drives the commentators like the F-450 never actually use them for real work. Meanwhile beatup ford rangers are actually used by contractors and workmen to do real work.
I know right.
I get shit all the time for driving an 01 v8 Dakota. I'm 16 and the heaviest thing I've hauled with it is a 150-200lb race mower. Midsize tricks are great for someone who doesn't haul a lot but needs more room then an SUV. it still has a tow capacity of 5,400lbs it's funny seeing guys with 3/4 and 1 ton king ranch trucks and they've probably only used to haul some mulch for their wife's garden.
Tiberius Hrafn-Úlfur "Small trucks" man i never understand why it's always a truck to American's. a Small truck here is like a Mazda Titan or whatnot. A Colorado or Amarok or Ranger or what ever is just a regular ute and the F-250's are just super-utes which makes sense, dont need a truck license to drive em, ergo not a truck.
I hope someday someone will explain to me why its always a 'truck' in the States
Matthew Ray I don't think the word "ute" ever took off over here. The first time I ever even heard "ute" was back when Pontiac was talking about taking the Maloo and making a "G8 ST" or "G8 Sport Truck" (real fun name, huh... Pontiac and their whole "G + #" way of naming things before they got the axe.) Anyway, over here a car with a truck bed would go by its specific name like El Camino or Ranchero, and anything taller than a car with a cab and a bed would go by "truck" or "pick-up." Whether that be a light truck or a full size truck. The LUV in Chevy LUV actually stood for Light Utility Vehicle. I wasn't born until '90 but I bet that everyone just called it a pick-up truck.
Sketchy
yeah, again i dont understand how utility or 'ute' just wasn't adopted cos thats what the car is, a utility car. Not a truck by definition, English is weird
The *chicken tax* is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. *chicken*.
- from Wikipedia
VeeDees Productions What the actual fuck. It's real.
VeeDees Productions Thank you. This comment is brief, yet informative.
Specifically on foreign light trucks if I recall.
I knew what this was a while back but I have forgot, thanks for refreshing my memory.if I remeber correctly Subaru tried importing their mini truck called the brat and to get around the chicken tax they put these little seats in the bed of the truck so they could label it a passenger vehicle. The most sketchy seats of all time lol
Anthony Mense Ford still does that with the Transit Connect. Every van is imported with windows and seats in the back. Then when they arrive they are converted to cargo vans
We had a 79 LUV when I was a kid.... my dad bought it as a leftover in 1980. It was SUCH a great truck.
I think it was based on the P'up. And believe it or not our family of 4 would travel in it. I on my moms lap, my brother in the middle and my dad driving. I remember that shifter hitting everyone's legs in 4th gear and in reverse.
The reason I hear that we don't have mini trucks anymore in Americais that the Ford Rangers/Chevy S-10/Dodge Dakotas were approaching the same price as a bottom of the line full size, and it was too dofficult to get mini trucks sold when for a couple grand more... you could have a full size truck.
Now in third world countries mini trucks thrive... they actually have diesel Rangers.
Great video. .. broufht back great memories
Gen light is for Generator. In other words the alternator is dying.
Is the speedometer accurate?
No idea...
That's one of the most cool-minded things ever said.
N.Y.C Department of Sanitation used the Chevy Luv for cleaning details all the way into the 1990s. Rookies loaded up 2 pails, 2 brooms and 2 shovels, the supervisor gave you and your partner a list of dirty blocks, or corners in N.Y.C they wanted cleaned and swept. "What are you doing today buddy?" "Chevy Luv" "oh cool!!" After all the Chevy Luvs were phased out, we used the F-150, or just take a garbage truck. We missed the Chevy Luv when it went away. Good little work horse.
I used to have an 81 Luv with 4x4. It was the best 900 bucks I ever spent.
I got rid of it when the timing chain tensioner broke and I was tired of only going a max speed of 55mph
Still have my '82 4x4. Between it and my 86 D21, have never needed another vehicle.
Easy fix bad move selling it
I'm sure someone's said it but the GEN light on indicates a faulty generator (called an alternator nowadays).
I was about to say that lol
ScaryGhost1 alternators ,are not the same as generators ,they both charge the battery a generator uses direct current an alternator use alternating current . lot's of older imports came with generators , the military uses them still because they can be used the same as the power in your house .
jerry henderson Sure, but I think they were done with actual generators on cars back in the early 60s, it's just that the nomenclature stuck around a bit longer. So his alternator is probably going out.
When I was young, my dad had a dual-headlight Chevy Luv's that he made out of 3 other ones. Eventually he painted it pearl white and turned it into a drag-car. 2000 pounds with a 468 big block chevy and a TH400. Used to race at Lonestar Dragway outside Dallas, TX. Sure would love to find that Luv again!
That's a cute little truck. I like the styling.
Right after high school I had a 72 LUV with an MG interior, small block 350, turbo 350 trans, B&M slap shift and a 4 foot axle with skinnies up front & 50's on the back. I used to love that LUV!
Such fun little trucks. Wish I still had her today. Good luck with it!
Find an Oldsmobile Toronado, the official car of "These anal beads don't really fit but damn it honey, we're gonna try this at least once."
nknasi The first gen Toronadoes are damn sexy, though. Especially with the rocket v8
i like it
This chevy looks like the words "Root beer"
Oh man this takes me right back to high school. Luv with house speakers and mustang seats in the back with the stuffed party wolf holding a beer and a smoke. Luvs ate timing chains and sounded way cooler with the air cleaner off.
Might want to fix the title. It isn't a 1997.
84Bronco351 HERF a DERF
Oh my god, Mr. Regular responded to me. Day= made. (Night actually, it's almost 1 A.M. Please review a 1987- 93 Mustang 5.0
84Bronco351 Morning, actually.
Norning
Day=ruined
Cause he responded to you and not me.
I love standard pickups. I have a standard 4x2 tacoma with a 4 banger and it may not be very fast but it's definitely fun to drive. I wish you could still get full size pickups with a manual transmission.
crephotos i have a 1992 4x2 4 banger 5 speed ranger and honestly it's all the truck 90% of people will ever need
***** Yea, it surprises me how much it can actually haul, doesn't handle like a truck either
There's someone under the username Kalyn Moiri that seems to have ripped off all of your videos on their channel. Just thought I'd let you know
I had a '92 Isuzu pickup, which came with exactly ONE option; air conditioning. It had factory manual steering, and a 5 speed manual trans---the shifter throws on that manual were absurdly long, like 12" front to back. It was also one of the very last vehicles sold with a carburetor in the US (maybe even THE last). It had all of the sophistication of a sledgehammer, but it always ran....one of the most dependable vehicles I ever had.
Holy cow, I haven't seen a Chevy Luv in ages. Thanks RCR for showing that beaty. Forgot how cool those old Isuzu trucked looked.
My first truck was a 79 Luv . Fond memories
Well done of you @RegularCars to end it like you did, trying to say you're going fast and/or not "mature" enough at the wheel, when We All know you drive like a Pro and one of a kind!!
The mini truck wars
Chevrolet/Isuzu - Ford/Mazda - Chrysler/Mitsubishi - Chrysler also had there car based mini trucks, The Scamp and Rampage
Is the subaru baha a mini truck?
Hunter Paige it might be Baja, I don't fucking know haha.
Hunter Paige Nope, the Baja is on the legacy/outback platform so it can be classified as something else. Subaru DID make a mini truck to get around the chicken tax, it was called the Brat. The think had like 80 something horsepower, " 4x4 drive" since the term AWD didn't really get around in the 80s, and had seats in truck bed facing backwards....and perfectly legal.
Phil Rutherford Just like the Baja, the brat was also a "minitruck" version of a car. The brat was a Leone, which was the impreza of the 70s and 80s.
Phil Rutherford If I'm not mistaken, they put those rear-facing seats in the Brat in order to classify it as a "passenger car" rather than a pickup truck.
I loved all the tiny trucks that were out in the 70s and 80s, it's the LUV and the Volks pickup that I really dig.
The chicken tax was first imposed by Europe on the U.S. as a tariff on imported chicken meat as right after WW2, the supply chain infrastructure for poultry was not only untouched by war but dirt cheap because of the wide open spaces of our country. In a never ending pre GATT world with retaliatory action after retaliatory action this same tariff eventually found its way to light commercial vehicles. Now there being a very large pickup truck market and larger margins on bigger vehicles Detroit wanted to keep making the large trucks so the chicken tax on light commercials never went away. Now some car companies have resorted to building the small vehicles in America, with varying degrees of success, but in most other countries in the world, you won't see a 150 or Silverado or Ram, you see these light trucks and the tax never went away.
In Australia, where I am from these small vehicles are marketed to the blue collar tradesman quite successfully, where over here you seem to lose your proverbial man card if you drive something smaller than a snooker table.
Today the Ford Transit Connect built in Turkey comes as a passenger vehicle with seats in it. It doesn't come off the boat as a stripped van, so as a dodge to said chicken tax, Ford strips and destroys the back seats of all such vehicles intended to serve van duty. I don't know how Ford does this with such impunity but it might have to do with the fact that States register vehicles and the Feds do customs.
Paul Blackman Thank you sir, I had no idea of that part of the history of vehicle taxation.
The US has some of the most asinine vehicle importing/registration laws I've ever seen.
A Chevy luv is what I learned to drive on and I’m 18. 1981 Chevy luv 4 speed 4wd 1.8 liter 4 cylinder. That pickup was awesome dad still has it but is selling it.
I'm 6'4" and I own drive, a 73 LUV.
and frankly I prefer driving it over my other classics at times. A 79 Ford f100 Ranger. And a 63 Chevy Apache. And rebuilding my Dad's 59 Apache as well, original owner..
We need more trucks like this...
Bring back the mini trucks, but please God! Let them all be manual transmissions with air conditioning!
This video really made me miss my first truck: a 1992 Nissan Hardbody
Hustler trucks for the win!
+dylan5567 I loved my 1990 Nissan. Complete no-frills utility. Regular cab, 5-speed, 2.4L 4-cyl. The only option it had was A/C. That little truck was a complete beast. I flogged the ever-loving hell out of it for 130K miles, never had a single mechanical issue. I abused the heck out of it too. Hauled and towed loads WAY beyond what it was rated for. Tough little machine. Probably the best all-around vehicle I have ever owned. Wish I still had it.
+Michael Kane I want a Nissan D21, preferably with the KA24E. Partly because it'll have the same engine as my 240sx project, but also because they're just good, rough-and-tumble trucks.
This reminds me of when RUclipsr Mustie1 took my Sonett for a drive.
Saab Sonett broh!
I drove a '79 Isuzu Pup in Australia once. It had a 4 speed on the column. This truck sounds much nicer to shift. Good looking little rig. I miss Japanese mini trucks, and just simple, honest, non-pretentious trucks in general.
That truck is awesome! I wish they had something like this today.
...learned stick in my brothers white Isuzu PUP at about 14...good memories...DAMN YOU CHICKEN TAX...!!!...
i love his response to the seat belt being twisted
A friend of my father had one of these back about 1990 and it was a '72. He got it for $50 and beat on it for years. I love older trucks. I have a '74 Ford F-100 but I would like to snag either an early Subaru Brat or a Chevy Courier to go with it.
The most common mini trucks here in Sweden are the WV Caddy and the Skoda Felicia, they are absolutely everywhere. Cheap too, 600-700 bucks will get you a post -96 model in good contidion.
Love '70s trucks. My uncle has a 1976 Datsun 620, quad headlamps
Liked those had one in high school. Blue with black interior, Chrome three spoke steering wheel, 8 inch baby moons on back 7 inch on front. We used a torch to blue the moons just a little. Glass pack muffler and CB, West coast mirrors.
Love these LUVs! They're a pickup version of the Isuzu Florian sedan (hence the car-like qualities with the ride and the shifter). I love it because it's tangentially related to a Giugiaro-designed car, the Isuzu 117 Coupe, which was also Florian-based.
Your voice is perfect for a family guy character.
That dash is too cool!
My dad had one think it was a 76 or 77 he painted it himself camo was a great little truck wish we still had it
That trucks adorable!
I'd love to own a small truck because you don't have to give up what you like about cars just to be able to tow stuff around.
I guess in that way, SUVs are essentially the modern "mini pickup"
I miss mini trucks of any brand.
i had 2 of these in 4x4. great little truck and fun to drive.
The Chevette of pickups.
Very cool little truck. I don't understand the chicken tax but mini trucks are the best. Bring them back
My grandpa is rebuilding a 41 chevy hot rod and has a jack daniels overflow and a gauge built into a Bush light can
That's a handsome little truck that. Shame us Brits see no point in pickups but I see the appeal in this one. Saying that though, the Original Volkswagen Caddy is fairly popular here
I didn't know I needed one of these, thanks.
I did the same thing. Bought a Nissan 720 as my first car and taught myself manual on the way home. I miss that thing so much. The frame started to go on it :(
Review a 1991ish Infiniti Q45a. Make sure it has the A The one with the active suspension. I used to work for Infiniti and that car was wild as hell, really different, a unicorn.
When I was in high school, our student parking lot was full of those!
The LUV models are still alive and well here in Chile where they proved to be quite popular. They're not so "mini" anymore though.
what a cool lil truck
OMG, I forgot all about these things, and I for some reason had a model of one of these things that I remember having a lot of fun building
1979 the pleasure principal and the dope ass love truck.
Sounds like an MGB shifter. So nice to move in and out of gear.
You finally did a mini truck!!! Thank you!!
My first car was the family's old 1976 Opel Isuzu's (Buick Opel), a cousin of the LUV. I've never driven a vehicle with a better shifter feel. Totally spoiled me.
This video made me want a Chevy Luv so much. Good Video RegularCars to bad you cant do a full review.
7:50
Did exactly the same thing. Had my brother drive me assuming he knew how so I ended up driving it back. The test drive was embarrassing as hell, but the dude was cool about it. Stalled a few times on the way back, took a few days to learn rev matching and it's already second nature.
Garrett Barnhart also at 7:50 you see Mr. Regular's face in the mirror.
4sf3d4g63 oh shiet, nice catch. aviators and handlebars? this dude is top notch.
The GEN light was a Chevy thing in the 70s. You replace your GENerator with an alternator and it leaves that light on forever. My friend has a '77 Nova, same thing. No matter the condition of the alternator.
77 nova came with alternator. You have to go back to the 50's maybe some 60's to see generators.
They kinda go with oil bath breathers.
Had a 79 Luv in high school, my dad put a 260ci Olds engine and trans (think th200) in it, ton of fun until I hit a deer at 45mph
Nice drive of an interesting import, just wish that fluffy sunshade wasn't blocking the windshield!
Great high school truck !
holy shit when i saw the jack daniels i fucking died
Sunshade goes up. Sunshade goes down.
I had a friend that had one with the diesel talk about a robust and reliable truck.
I haven't seen one of these in years that wasn't a rust bucket,and most of them around here were 4 wheel drive.
If the biggest thing you are ever going to haul is a pair of mountain bikes or a Foosball table, the light pickup, may it rest in peace, begins to sound like the most practical thing in the world given only about ten seconds of thought. It's too bad nobody seems to sell them in America anymore.
Where I live in New Jersey, everyone has a brother in landscaping, so the roads are always clogged with F150s or bigger.
Maybe, someday the Regular Guy can find a Ford Ranger or some-such to review for history's sake.
If you end up in socal sometime, you should check out my '74 ford courier. Same chicken tax setup; they imported a truck frame from mazda (therefore not importing a truck) and bolted a bed on it stateside.
Just a fun little truck with tons of low end torque, and absolutely no power. It's slow and lovely.
rasvial The difference, is mine works like new, he's got a few naggles. Mind you.. like new doesn't mean much, it was the base model of entry level mini trucks in 74.. but if you like that concept- a 2500lb truck with a 1.8l i4, its perfect.
Mini trucks are trucks for real people who don't need a "TRUUCKCKSKKKKJARHHGHGHGHMURICA"
I had a new yellow 1981 Chevy LUV. Great Isuzu engine until it rained then my truck would just cut out as I was driving down the road. I was always hunting for the right gear and never found it....
Regarding the transmission, it's probably a car transmission, and a short differential (4.3-4.5 to 1, where a passenger vehicle would run around 3.9:1) I'm in Australia and we got the Subaru Brat (called a Brumby here, with no back seats)
The chicken tax was implemented as a response to France and West Germany imposing a tariff on US chicken. It covered light trucks, potato starch, dextrin, and brandy. There are ways around it... Like ship the vehicle with rear seats intact and remove them AFTER importation at the port.
the us definitely needs more minitrucks
If you come to wa ill let you drive my 91 s10 2.5l five speed. Its a reliable daily. I had a 84 four speed camaro with get this, a 2.5l. Every day someone said put a v8 in it but it was so good on gas and i daily drove it. Thats the dntire reason i picked a 2.5l s10.
Who needs a Cadillac when you've got Cadillac wheels?
I thought this looked familiar. We had these in Australia as the Isuzu KB up till 1980 when it was rebadged as the Holden Rodeo
I had a 73 courier. very similar to the luv. I wanted to do a 5.0 swap on that thing and toss in the 5.0 trans. It never happened but now I want a courier just to complete that build. lol
I think it's relatively safe to assume that the amount of people who know of that vehicle is similar to the number of views on this video.
I love that LUV.
Reminds me of my dad's old Mazda Sundowner.
Chevy half-ton Luv, x2, was the jingle. I believe the Courier was the mazda "p'up" or some short name like that
Actually, the Isuzu Faster wasn't really a dedicated truck at all. It had the same chassis and nearly identical bodywork as the Isuzu Bellett. The crew-cab model actually used Bellett rear doors.
Compared to all the F350s around my town, my 2002 Silverado is a pretty small truck. But this thing looks smaller than an S10! Wow.
I had to grab another beer while watching this
If I was to get a truck, I'd want something like this. A little utility vehicle to carry whatever I needed around... Please make something like this again... please?
AFAIK, the chicken tax doesn't specifically prevent mini-trucks from being sold in the US. It prevents any foreign-made pickups from being sold here without a massive tariff. Mini-trucks could get around it the same way the Toyota and Nissan pickups get around it: By building them in the US. But they've apparently decided there just isn't a market for minitrucks. That may be true, considering how hard it is to squeeze even a compact pickup out of Ford, Chevy and Dodge anymore.
I can smell the dust through the computer screen.
Want...
wow .. very like this car..
*one of my best and life long friends had one of these that was a 4x4. he beat the ever loving shit out of that truck on the hills and trails and that little isuzu motor in that thing just didn't have any quit in it. as long as he kept the fluids changed in it the thing just kept going and going like the energizer bunny. LMAO at the cadillac wheels , those are the exact same ones that came on my Escalade EXT. Not the original bench seat for sure the original one was only 2" thick nothing but vinyl and springs*
Cevy luvs were geared like big trucks took a lot get them rolling , the engine timing played a big part in that
I had a 81 model of the LUV and it has a completely different body and was a 4x4. I think that there's a market in the US for mini trucks and It's unfortunate that they don't sell them here. One thing I would have improved on the one I had was the frame it needed to be better coated or thicker steel so that it doesn't rust through and fall apart.
I think someone is stealing your videos. Their channel name is car reviews 2015.
*car review 2015
Isaiah Sampson channel/UCphlNk25XC8vdRdcXvmQn-w/videos
Over 200 stolen videos.... shit.
Daniel P.S Yea it showed up in the suggested videos
Isn't it ridiculous that we can't report the channel for impersonation because we "do not legally represent RegularCars" ?
Isaiah Sampson there are a lot of copying channels.
I just know about the LUV because Pimp My Ride "pimped" one in an episode XP
I've recently seen a lot of conversions of VW T4 or T5 vans into pickup trucks. Just take the cargo version, it's already got a wall, cut off the sides and the roof and there you go (well, of course, it's a little more work than that, but that's basically it). Maybe this would be an idea for Americans to circumvent the chicken tax and still drive small-ish pickup trucks? Of course, US vans (except maybe the Ford Transit, if it's the same as here in Europe) are not your first choice for that, but the european ones with something like a 2L turbo diesel engine in them are much better on fuel economy. And the T4 can even be converted to 2 tons of hauling, if you've got the long version (by just stiffening up the rear suspension). But they are front wheel drive...
Gen warning light means generator, which means alternator.
Cool truck!
always liked the luv my dad had ome the biggest issue is the throw out bearing collar is plastic and doesnt hold up well over time