so the day after ben posts this ridiculous find, my wife and i go and check out this house for sale in a part of town that i don't get to explore very often. as we pull up, i see an cream-colored i-mark parked on the distant curbside.
my first thought, "whoa, i-mark! ben just posted one of these last night!"
then as we got closer, i saw the nearby carport.
the google streetview images are date-stamped 2005, indicating that they've had the van for at least since then, and that the i-mark replaced a gen-1 tercel.
Best of OPC. 
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That is super. I love it.
It looks small, almost like a kei van of some sort. I agree about it being super though.
!!!
vegetable oil tubs everywhere, presumably for the p'up diesel in the driveway and maybe the i-mark, one day day...
off-center license plate ftw. love the chrome barely-there bumpers are wonderful. wheelbarrow tires. side-view mirrors protruding like antennae.
tag added: [B]suicide doors[/B].
It is a kei van. Love these little buggers.
so the day after ben posts this ridiculous find, my wife and i go and check out this house for sale in a part of town that i don't get to explore very often. as we pull up, i see an cream-colored i-mark parked on the distant curbside.
my first thought, "whoa, i-mark! ben just posted one of these last night!"
then as we got closer, i saw the nearby carport.
the google streetview images are date-stamped 2005, indicating that they've had the van for at least since then, and that the i-mark replaced a gen-1 tercel.
you were close... it is actually a 1969 Subaru 360. sambar is another name for the van body style.
i picked it up in ROUGH shape in the late nineties for $100 and spent the better part of a decade tracking down the parts and restoring it.
thanks for all the kind words. i love my 360. driving it is a truly unique experience...
casey
Thanks for that Casey, you are the man!
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