Delica Canada | Mitsubishi Van Club

the replica looks like an l300 but the one in the movie doesn't, it doesn't have the dip in the side windows It is a "mid-sized" Mitsubishi van so it has to be an L300 - only model they've made for decades . I can only guess back in 1984, when "Wheels on Meals" was made, that th...

Someone made a replica of the movie car. More body work than meets the eye. Even the panel van models have indents where the windows would be.

Does it matter if they are crap or not? You're not actually prepared to be seen driving one are you? Think of your poor kid - drop him off to school in that thing and other kids will beat him up. If I understand properly the ugly delicas have been assembled exclusively in mainland China for a while ...

Chinese Delica (L-300) to be exported to Mexico. May help with spares, and misc. LHD bits. The "refreshed look", should read "knocked up look". Scroll past the pregnant L-300, and there is a hippopotimized Delica. The Dodge version features "motor hemi(R)". Broom broom....

I think that in Cannon Ball Run, Jackie was driving a Subaru turbo.

You are right. It was in Cannonball Run II that he was Mitsubishi sponsored.

I should have checked in the Internet Movies Cars Database:
Cannonball Run Subaru
Cannonball Run II Starion

(BTW that db uses L-300 not L300)

YouTube clip including the L300's uber-Japanese style change into a "chip wagon". (The clip begins with some guy looking at a piece of paper). Mitsubishi has sponsored Jackie Chan for a very long time - remember Cannon Ball Run from 1981? Yeah they sponsored that, even though as I recall ...