I've lurked on here for years, mainly because I was looking for my old LUV truck. I as very involved with the Mini Truck scene back in the 1970's. Before I built the LUV, I had built 3 Datsun's (One that was a magazine feature truck), A V8 Courier, and helped a friend with his V8 LUV (See thread "Coming Home" in the Newbie section). I got involved with Mini Truckin from a business standpoint as well, I wrote the Just Mini Truckin Column for Truckin magazine for a while and opened up a business devoted strictly to Mini's called the Mini Truck Store, this was in the late 1970's. Eventually I built my vision of the ultimate LUV truck. It's a 1972 that was chopped by Hot Rodding Legend Dick Dean< I worked with California Step Sides to build a custom one off step bed with wider than normal rear fenders. this truck had a HOT 331" small block Chevy and a chromed Corvette rear end.
I sold it in the mid 1980's to buy a Race car and eventually lost track of it. Eventually I found it posted on here and sent the owner a message, but never heard back. I kind of pushed it to the back of my mind again. But two things recently happened that have me trying to locate him again, 1) my buddy Jeff was able to buy back the V8 LUV that he sold in 1978 (actually we teamed up and bought it together) and 2) I was inducted into the Mini Truck Hall of Fame, lifetime Achievement Award, at SEMA back in November. These two things got me thinking how much I'd like to have it back, so if any of you know Jim Miller in Cadiz KY or have seen this truck, help me out !!!!!