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Rare 1993 Trooper Rs 2-door Off-road Configuration on 2040-cars

Year:1993 Mileage:221000
Location:

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Advertising:

 
             

   

    RARE ISUZU TROOPER EQUIPPED FOR OFF-ROAD    
"the all-terrain limousine"

Rare 1993 RS model (2 door) with factory installed skid plates under the
front end
transmission
transfer case
gas tank

Rides on torsion bars and springs; was called "the all-terrain limousine" 

3.2L V6 DOHC 24 valve, Isuzu's largest engine, 190 HP

4-speed automatic, has winter and power modes, 4WD, automatic locking hubs

Only 221k miles. Reportedly only 500 Second Generation RS Troopers were made
(1993, 94, 95) so it qualifies for AACA car shows as "Special Interest" 

Loaded with nearly every feature available
Power windows & locks
Pioneer stereo-CD & speakers
Full gauges
  Cruise control
Tilt wheel
  AC
  Rear Wind Deflector
Top tinted glass
Power steering
Power brakes
Factory chrome power folding heated mirrors
Rear wiper washer & defroster
Headlight washers and wipers
Intermittent windshield wipers
Fog lights
ABS rear brakes
5 nice alloy wheels
Great tires

Door locks are special. Only the driver's door lock
works with this key, but it controls all 3 doors 

Car has the tightest turning radius of any SUV. A joy to drive

Work done in the last year:
New super heavy duty rotors and brake pads all around
New driver's side CA shaft
New belts - FAN - AC - PS
New radiator
New friction clutch on radiator fan
Two new catalytic converters
New high pressure power steering hose
New brake line
(A file with the car has all bills and receipts showing who did what)

When I bought it, I was told it had new mufflers, starter, alternator, and water pump

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Needing attention:
  motor for passenger window
AC charge (AC is instant and excellent in this car)
windshield wipers are 2 speed, should be intermittent as well

Needed for Virginia inspection the car failed in June
fill 6 rust holes in frame
repair rear bumper stops
left muffler needs minor weld
replace left front sway bar end link
aim left fog light
adjust left front wheel bearing

No hidden secrets with this car - I described it all

This car was built to be great and has the stuff to be great again.   

 There is no service or paperwork charge

    Payment

    We expect a $500 deposit via PayPal within 72 hours and the remainder
in cash or certified check before we turn the car over to you.

We have described the car correctly and stand behind the description.
If you are the high bidder and change your mind after seeing the car,
you have no obligation to complete the purchase and your deposit will be returned.    

We will be happy to pick you up at the Charlottesville, VA, airport, Amtrak or Trailways station.       

   

          


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Junkyard Gem: 1997 Acura SLX

Tue, Nov 27 2018

When I'm prowling wrecking yards, I'm always on the lookout for obscure examples of badge engineering, and the weirder they are, the better I like them. While I haven't managed to spot a junked Suzuki Equator yet, I have photographed such rarities as the Saab 9-2x and Isuzu Ascender. A few weeks ago, I encountered one of the real oddities of the Honda-Isuzu dealmaking of the 1990s: a 1997 Acura SLX, a luxed-up Isuzu Trooper that sold very poorly and is now mostly forgotten today. Plenty of Acura SUVs designed and built entirely by Honda roll out of American showrooms today, but the 1990s SUV boom caught Honda by surprise. The first MDX wasn't ready until the 2001 model year, so Honda made a deal to take Isuzu Troopers, apply wood and leather inside and Acura badges outside, and cash in on North Americans' increasing disdain for minivans, sedans, and station wagons. Americans were very familiar with the Trooper, which was sold here from the middle 1980s until the 2002 model year, when the Chevrolet Trailblazer-based Ascender went on sale. The Isuzu name stuck around on these shores until 2008. The SLX was a decent enough truck, but there was no disguising its proletariat Trooper roots from status-conscious SUV shoppers who wanted to look more oligarchic while conquering a half-inch of snow in the mall parking lot. It didn't help that the 1997 Trooper L listed at $27,800 and the SLX Premium cost $38,300 (that's about $44,200 and $60,900 in inflation-adjusted 2018 bucks). SLX sales started off weak and plummeted after that. After 1999, the SLX was done. I spent years trying to find one in California and Colorado wrecking yards, but the few that were sold seemed to be sturdy enough to stay alive for a couple of decades. Finally, this high-mile '97 appeared in a Denver yard. This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings.

Junkyard Gem: 1997 Acura SLX

Mon, Sep 25 2023

By the second half of the 1990s, the tremendous sales success of the Ford Explorer (introduced as a 1991 model) and Jeep Grand Cherokee (introduced as a 1993 model) had made it clear clear that the future of the American road would be trucks. Any automotive manufacturer not selling a full line of SUV-ish machinery here would be irrelevant soon after the dawn of the new century, and the car-and-bike-centric American Honda Motor Company was therefore in big trouble. The Civic could be used as the basis for a small crossover SUV (which debuted here as the 1997 Honda CR-V), but Honda needed to buy time to design and produce the platform that would underpin the 2001 Acura MDX and 2003 Honda Pilot. That time was purchased via a deal to sell rebadged Isuzu trucks as Hondas and Acuras. Today's Junkyard Gem is one of those Honda-ized Isuzus, found in a Colorado boneyard. Honda began selling the Isuzu Rodeo as the Passport (recycling the name they'd used on the U.S.-market Super Cub motorcycle) for the 1994 model year, and Acura dealers started moving SLX-badged Isuzu Troopers in the 1997 model year. Just to make things interesting in the Isuzu-Honda world, North American Isuzu dealers sold Honda Odysseys with Isuzu Oasis badges at the same time. Isuzu had gone all-truck for the American market after the last Styluses (and closely related Geo Storms) were sold here as 1993 models. Sadly, Isuzu's final (non-commercial) new vehicles sold here were rebadged Chevy Trailblazers and Colorados, more than 30 years after Chevrolet began selling Isuzu Faster pickups here with LUV badges. Honda never did build any body-on-frame trucks, but that proved unnecessary in order to make some money during the CUV/SUV era. The SLX never sold particularly well, but it gave Acura dealers a luxury truck to park next to the Integras, TLs, RLs, CLs and NSXs in their showrooms. After 1999, the SLX was gone, leaving just the 2000 model year as a blank spot for Acura-badged SUVs. This truck held together like a real Honda product, getting fairly close to the 300,000-mile mark (I've found junkyard Accords with better than a half-million miles on their odometers, plus one apiece Civic and CR-V that got past 400,000 miles during their lives). The original owner's manuals were still in the glovebox when I found this truck. At the end, it appears that it was towed away for being parked illegally. Maybe the engine or transmission failed and its final owner just walked away.

Junkyard Gem: 1990 Geo Storm

Sun, Jun 25 2023

General Motors began selling rebadged Isuzus in the United States all the way back in 1972, when the Isuzu Faster pickup showed up here as the Chevrolet LUV. A few years after Isuzu began selling vehicles in North America under its own branding, The General began selling Isuzu I-Marks as Chevrolet Spectrums; when the time came to create the Geo division to sell badge-engineered Suzukis, Toyotas and Isuzus here, the Chevy Spectrum became a Geo and a sport compact based on the Isuzu Piazza appeared in Geo dealerships as the Storm. Today's Junkyard Gem is a first-model-year example of the Storm, found with lots of miles and plenty of rust in a Denver-area car graveyard recently. Isuzu began selling this car as the second-generation Impulse for the 1991 model year. Few American car shoppers were interested in that car, but the Storm sold well. For the 1991 model year, a "Wagonback" version of the Storm was added to the lineup. The Storm was discontinued after 1993, and Geo itself got the axe in 1997. The 130-horsepower GSi version of the Storm was one of the best quickness-per-dollar deals of its era, but this car is the base Storm with just 95 SOHC horses under its hood. An automatic transmission was available, but this car has the standard five-speed manual. How much did it cost new? The list price was $10,390, or about $24,741 in 2023 dollars.  This one got well past 200,000 miles during its career. The rust is nasty. This car might have been a runner at the end, but corrosion plus high miles, manual transmission and defunct brand all conspired to send it to this place. This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings. The new Geo Storm is rolling in now. This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings. So cheap! This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings. The JDM headlights definitely looked better than the sealed-beams we got here.