We found a Mitsubishi Pajero Junior at a scrapyard in Wales! 

I am picturing Lewis from whiteland screaming “ NO !!!” Into his laptop or phone screen 😱😱

Having owned one I can testify to their incredible ability to rust. Worse than a Jimny and that’s saying something…

Yes Ian, you should buy it

I don't see why not. Buy it; take it straight 'round to Whiteland to get the sills patched up, bit of tweaking, and MOT. Would be great for rural Wales.

I like the way the recyclers call you as it not only gives you interesting content but also gets more eyes on interesting stuff they have for sale!

Definitely buy it, take it straight to the welders to sort the inner sills and few other crusty bits, clean the underside as much as possible and give a good dose of rust proofing. 54k, plenty of life left in her!!

That looks fairly recoverable and would be a handy little 4 wheeler for those snowy Welsh roads.

Well. If it's still got a floor... It's tempting. And it's got more labels on it than Alan Whicker's luggage.

I've heard from a Volkswagen salesperson back in the day that the upright resting position of the Mk2 Golf wiper was designed because of snow. The first wipe would be downwards and thus clears the rear window by pushing all the snow down and off the car; going up might only compress the snow and possibly block the wiper. I don't know if Mitsubishi thought the same but it wouldn't surprise me.

Buy buy buy! Love quirky old 4WDs. Perfect for some HubNut greenlaning, although stiff competition from the 2CV

Get it...!! These are seriously cool cars....!!!!

Now thats actually worth welding up and saving, great little thing.

Ideal car for miss hubnut around Wales, grab it 👍🙏

I think that in Japan these small 4wd cars are very much more likely to find genuine use in snow. Mountain regions of Japan are a great challenge.

Get it bought Ian it's amazing. Miss Hubnut and the Hublets will love it.

I had one of these a good few years ago in the same colour (Perfect for me and the dog)....Better than a Suzuki Jimny, cheaper to tax and a more powerful engine....And with good chunky tyres went anywhere! Sadly parts weren't cheap (if you could get them)....I had to have a radiator built for mine (£400) and a new stainless exhaust (£325) but it never let me down....Mine eventually turned a bit crispy underneath too, but I was offered a cheap 1.6 Vitara 3 door so bought that and sold the Pajero mini on....would be a perfect winter car for Wales Ian....😉😉

Not beyond saving but sod that, it'll need completely cleaning up and repainting/sealing underneath to make it last more than a couple of winters in the UK

I reckon there will be more holes than anticipated under that! 😮

A lovely little motor Ian. It would be a fairly good project to get it road ready.

I hope someone takes her on, if only as a spares car. So many spares, not least the engine, low miles and a runner too. The interior looks to be in very good shape.

dude buy it,would make a great snow machine,

Perfect little 4x4 for winter and some fun camping trips.

Even without doing anything to it, Ian, this little car seems to have more things functioning than does your entire fleet ...

Very cool indeed, I would imagine you'd regret not buying it. 😊

We had a Mitsubishi shogun but it was a 3.2 td but Mitsubishi are good cars just gotta keep an eye out for rust

Should you get it? No. It would sit there for 3 years and then get passed on for nothing. Although the body and engine look absolutely fine, that looks like a LOT of metalwork will be needed. Which means many hours on a lift, with proper welding, grinding and folding gear. Which would add up to a lot of money. Cute though it is, conservatively it would probably owe the restorer a couple of thousand pounds in labour. The Volvo opposite looks like it might have more potential.

The Pajero Pinin were sold in GB as the Shogun Pinin, they were called the Montero iO in Spain. They were also sold in Ireland, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Switzerland. Interestingly (?) the bodyshells were welded and painted in one factory, then transported to another factory an hour away for final assembly.

We have the Mitsubishi Pajero Mini at our shop. with 660 cc's of raw power, it's a blast to drive and a very capable off-roader, but more often than not, it is used to pick up parts for other cars or run errands.

If you've had a spot of bad luck, Ian - at least you didn't get a meteorite through your roof, like a Renault Clio in Strasbourg recently! 😁👍

I like the way he talks himself into the purchase as the video goes on.

In Australia, we had the Pajero iO, for a while - competed with the Vitara, earlier Rav 4, Honda Civic Shuttle AWD and possibly Daihatsu Rocky?. Didn't know they had all these other smaller versions. Pajero still sells well in Australia, because of much cheaper than a Patrol and Land cruiser. Pajero Sport, I read, was basically a wagon version of the Triton Ute, like the Fortuner and Isuzu Mux etc ?

Excellent winter project, good money to be made I suspect

Looking forward to seeing this vehicle in a future video!

Absaloutly brilliant video ian miss hubnut ❤👍what a lovely 4x4 needs to be saved brilliant

That looks very original up to the paint !! Still fetching €2K for a well used one here in Malta ,surprised the flare is still stuck in the passenger foot well.

These were very quirky little 4x4's. I remember going to the Firs Garage Mitsubishi dealership when my dad had his Mitsubishi Shoguns (one of which replaced a 'reliable' Land Rover Discovery 2) and there used to be on occasions a Shogun Pinnin which I thought looked interesting but also cool.

What a GREAT mini truck ,with actual off road performance! I think you really should, I am very tempted myself ,as a little offroad brother to my stepwgn, a step brother even!

I prefer cars, but this little Mitsu is neat! Hope you decide to purchase it. Plus, it announces to the world all of its capacities with the various graphics.

It hasn’t had a mot for 10 years , it’s a complete lemon 🍋, am I watching the same video as everyone else

get Mickey blackely mobile sandblaster to do the underside then weld it up and spray it. Could be an interesting one that.

Unspeakably cute and I want one, but I'm glad you seem to have passed on it. A great project for someone with a lift or a pit, but there's going to be many hours spent getting at the undersides.

My first thought was: Why is this rig at the junkyard looking this good with only 54K on the odometer? Surely the other side must be smashed. My question was answered when you looked underneath. MAYBE the rust can be scraped off and the holes patched, but this is not a classic car needing to be saved. I'd be hard-pressed to put anyone but myself in that uni-body car after repairs. "Some are savers, some are doners", applies here. Let the 56K engine and drive line live on in another Pajero Junior with better body integrity.

Love the wee Mitsi. Shame its rough as a badger's posterior underneath. Engine looks good.

We just received a '91 Nissan Pulsar NX with 20.440 miles from new on it. It's Silver with a Blue Cloth Interior. Driven for nearly 10 years and then stored..... but "Secretly" driven from "Time to time"(😦😉) . Car has been garaged from day-1 and was always looked after by the original selling Dealer. We're selling it on Her behalf. She's asking "$5000 O.B.O.."

Awesome little 4X4, thank You for another great video.

I had forgotten about the decals with the specs on the side. Used to be quite common on Japanese market cars.

What great trucks people are scrapping. Love the Mitsi, and that L322 next to it! What a throw away society.

It's one of those cars that you don't want, until you see one. I now feel like I need one in my life. But probably not that one. I wondered if it had been used as a farm vehicle, exclusively off road, given the lack of MoT history. But the condition is more in line with it just being parked up.

Not sure if this is the right project for you but would love to watch a new series of you getting a car back on the road. They are always my favourite episodes.

Definitely get it - best thing you've had on the channel for ages!

Loving the typical JDM nearside front wing mirror. Worth saving, even if only to end up as a farm hack one level up from an ATV - nice dry warm interior and fold the back seats down so the sheepdog can ride in the back.

Yep, get it bought - you know that you want to 😁

That metal bracket, might be the inside handle. Heh,heh! I love those seats.

Buy it, it's just your kind of quirky thing and probably great for rural wales, plus for an SUV the MPG is probably not that bad. Though saying that a three speed auto on a 1.1L engine can't be fun! I do like the fact that it advertises it's huge 1.1L engine! Good chance to get some welding experience, don't necessarily need to fix it up really quickly it can be an ongoing "learner" project, and it doesn't need to be pretty on such a utilitarian vehicle. Is it a similar size to a Jimny?

Love it

my pal had a Mitsubishi truck (by truck i mean a 4WD with only front seats and no windows a sort of van )and it was great i would say they are very under rated makers with good solid products

Mitsubishi UK imported one of these in this exact colour, I remember sitting in one on a visit to the UK headquarters (now unfortunately closed) when my Dad worked there.

I think someone said something about a car you don't want until you see it....WELL, i bought my ex a Mk2 Suzuki swift (and collected it) from Berwick and drove it back up to Edinburgh, 12 years ago. I just drove it 60 miles and then it was hers, thought nothing of it. And then 3 years ago, it was the end of Covid lockdown, and i found myself on a Sunday morning, outside Market Harborough, sniping a Mk2 Swift that was near Epsom downs. I won the auction and collected the car within 7 hours. (there's a lot missing to this story but i don't want to bore people). Long story short, i still have the Swift, it's a little crispy now but ultra reliable, i love driving it....had this video been 3 years ago, i'd be buying that Pajero. Please buy it Ian.

What a lovely little thing.

I had a 2.8 swb 96 pajero bit larger than that had it 6 years best vehicle I've had wish I still had it

Had a Shogun and everything from the chassis upwards was great, engine ran like a swiss watch, super comfy, looked amazing ... everything from the floorpan down may as well been made of cardboard.

And thanks for the subtitles.❤️

I had a ZR1 (power nothing version) manual one of these for over 12 years. Sold it about a year ago to a good friend who takes it all over NZ behind his house bus on an A-frame I had fitted early on in my ownership for the same reason. No rust at all and everything worked. The manual sat at 3500 rpm at 100kph so a bit revy but that's where the power band started. Wasn't as cheap to run as you might expect as your driving it hard just keep up with traffic. Anywhere between 9 and 11L/100ks , worse off road. Only issues I had was worn suspension bushs in the rear linkage and an oil leak in the engine bay just as this one has. Turned out to be an O-ring on the camshaft sensor, easy fix. Have done some off roading and managed to impress the 'big boys' enough to stop them from laughing and have a good look at the toy. (I did have proper mud tyres on slightly wider rims though). Would I buy another one? Not an auto but that's only my preference. Why keep it for so long? I just loved driving it, smile on your face stuff. Like driving a classic Mini, bare bones motoring with modern reliability. (It was my daily commute).

All 90's two tone vehicles must be saved! Buy IT!!!

Top half looked so good!

I think that would be a really cool little project. What surprises me is how clean the external bodywork is. Really clean under the bonnet too.

Wow that is alot of surface rust and holes underneath, I know it's an old (ish) Japanese car but i prefer my cars to not be made of rust!

Hi you two hope your both well, what a little gem, that would make a good car for some one and winter on the way hand for those short hilly run's in the snow and being a little petrol engine should be cheep to run, none of those diesel issue's short run's exhaust clogging up no ad blue. A great little car, great video Take care🚗👍

Yes, yes you should! Wales, winter weather 4x4... absolutely!

This car gives me flashbacks to a rather memorable trip with four adults and full camping gear (three tents and everything) in an SWB Vitara. I've got short legs for my height (6'3) but over two hours in the back seat with luggage piled in my lap was painful! The only worse trip was five adults plus camping gear and several accordions in a Toyota Yaris in the middle of the night with an almost empty tank and an inexperienced, very tired driver. On that trip I had the privilege of being assigned the front passenger seat and eventually even being allowed to take the wheel after the first driver nearly side-swept the guard rail pulling into motorway services. At that point she decided she preferred getting home in one piece over the risk of having her friend be a little cross because she let someone else drive. By almost empty tank I mean the computer told us we had 10 km worth of petrol left when we finally reached a petrol station that was open, the first one was closed and the second one out of order.

I've been wanting you to get back in a 4 wheel drive, so this may seem like the perfect thing!

In Ian's next video.... 'I may have a new fleet member" great looking little Mitsibishi Ian and Carly.

What a neat little truck. Haven’t seen one of these in a while here in NZ

another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍

A lovely little car. I'd love for you to buy it but I'll leave that up to you and the masses!

I almost bought one of these when they were almost new. They've all but disappeared in NZ too, despite us not salting our roads

I bought a Pinin auto for my then student daughter. I thought it was a fantastic car and drove wonderfully and for a man of a certain age, very accessible! Sadly the 22mpg proved to be an obstacle. I wish I had kept it, but like that one it was getting a tad crispy below. Great video, as always. Best.

What a great little 4x4 well worth buying

The diff lock is what you need for uphill compressed snow.,

Its a maybe from me, its definitely got some work in it, brakes , some welding, how are the brake and fuel lines etc, but interesting car. A few dings, but the body and interior looks good. Probably never undersealed since on import. Best wishes.

Definitely worth saving Ian they must be super rare over here looks a lovely little car be good content on the channel to see it restored

I’ve got 2 of these already!! I hope I can secure this one too before is too late

I'd take that on myself! What a cracking wee car! ]

Great little project for someone, even tyre tread looks decent. A wire brush bit of welding,find source of transmission leak and get the brakes done, and protection spray underneath, could be saved quite easily.

yes, defo buy it. It would be great for video purposes as well.

That vehicle would so suit being in the “Hinterland” series.

They were no sold exclusively in Japan……Australia had them, and I’ve never seen one here in Japan. These are the typical international market type versions of the kei ones…….ours are the 660 turbo units without the flares to fit the dimensions. Anything above a kei and the tax goes through the roof as do the other legal requirements……when people here add flares and bigger wheels the running costs increase 5 to 10 times, depending on age.

I hope someone takes it on as a project. Probably worth saving as it's so unusual. Like it

That's a huge maybe. These things rust very proficiently, but they're really, really cool. D:

The Pajero iO was also sold (I am presuming in pretty small numbers) for a while in Australia. My first car was a 1981 Suzuki LJ81 (hardtop), which was a precursor to the Sierra/Jimny models that would follow, and it was great fun - so this is also very interesting viewing. Lovin' your work Hubnutters. Cheers!

I made myself an "MOT hammer" by grinding one end of a regular small hammer pointy. Very useful tool for finding soft spots where the rust have eaten everything, and trying to estimate how much welding is needed. Only use it on my own cars though 😉

Cool car, never seen one before. Would love to own one of these.

Matt furious driving seems to like projects that need welding. Maybe he'll buy it 😇

Wow…what a beauty…you need this on the fleet😃

You should most definitely buy it 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Buy it, only a few weeks work even at a slow pace. Very handy for Welsh winters with the right tyres on it and for towing Bob. Is it Pajero or Paheiro. I go for the continental J.

Good cars the Pajero, very popular here in Australia. I think you should get it, then come better weather get a hoist that you can run off a generator in to your shed, then get to work restoring it. Great for towing and as a two person traveller for pulling the caravan.. you would never look back...

That’s pretty cool and never even knew of the until now.

Oh yes this would be a Hubnut fleet contender indeed 👍👍👍

Love it. Buy it!, you can always sell it on….