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“Many people wrongly assume that this is a recently-imported JDM truck, but Honda officially launched micro-trucks in the UK in the late 1970s, most famously as the original camper van used in the Sooty And Friends Children’s series on ITV, before Bedford introduced their slightly bigger and more powerful Rascal rival,” explains the ever knowledgeable Philip Egan. As the proud owner and builder of the beautiful brown Honda Acty truck splashed across these pages, he’s a bit of an aficionado on these diminutive oddities and has been since he first fell in love with Bedford Rascals when he was just 12 or 13 years old in the early ‘90s.

This particular truck was manufactured on 1st April 1985 and originally sold by Boston Motor Cars in Hyde, Cheshire before bouncing around all over the UK until Philip took ownership of it in March 2016.

“I’d been after a microvan or truck for years, I don’t know why, but I just always get attracted to strange