Difference between the 1980's Hilux and 1980's T100?

So I'm slowly saving up cash to hopefully accomplish my 13 year old selfs dream of building the Marty McFly Hilux from Back to the Future. I've been searching for about a year now for an Xtracab Hilux with a clean frame and workable body for under 7.5k, but it's been a crapshoot since I'm in the rust belt. Anyhow, while searching the occasional T100 pops up and it looks almost identical to the '85 body style that I want, specifically the xtracab configuration.
My question is, what's the real difference? I can see some minor cosmetic stuff, but to the untrained eye they look almost the same. They also seem to be cheaper from what I've found. Is this a viable route or would the Hilux purists poo-poo it for being a T100? Finally, do Hilux parts such as body panels, axles, etc, fit on the T100?
Thanks in advance.

 

I think you mean Pick Up not Hilux the Hilux was never sold in the USA .

i only know from a long build project that I did for free on a T 100

About the only parts that inter change are the Engine and Transmission and transfer case. wheels maybe some brake parts. Minor odds and ends


Frame is wider which means the axles are wider cab and bed are different .

Parts can be very hard to find . If you want to build aT100 go for it .

The T100 is the New Coke of Toyota.

If your Near Allentown Pa I have many IFS Toyota Pick up 4x4 Parts.

 

The T100 was the predecessor of the Tundra. The reason you never hear of them was they weren't as popular (period complaints were lack of V8 and intermediate size), and they had a tendency to rust up bad. Toyota threw a ton of engines in it, the 3vz, 3rz, and 5vz.

The Hilux is the international name of what was simply called the Toyota pickup in North America. At the time it was a compact truck, competing with trucks like the Ranger. You'll have about as much luck building a T100 with Hilux parts as you would building a Tundra with a Tacoma truck. Mechanical components for the T100 will be easier since the engines and transmission were used in other vehicles.

 

As has been indicated, the T100 isn't remotely similar to the '80s Toyota pickups. It may wear the familiar Toyota face, but the much wider grin is where it ends. It's longer, heavier, wider, rounder (I had a "95 T100 and replaced it with an '05 Tundra and the T100 is much closer to the first gen Tundra) and while it might make a neat tribute, it'll look like a cool T100 and never be remotely close to the original. If you're dreaming to build the Marty McFly truck, it probably won't scratch that itch. Keep searching for a good or rebuildable "80s. Just an opinion of course, you gotta do you.

Cheers

 

From the mid-late 1970s until the Tacoma, Toyota simply called it the "Truck" or "Pickup".

But we did get the Hilux in the USA once upon a time. Back when the trucks had turn signals mounted above the front fenders. That nameplate was dropped in the US circa 1972 IIRC. Our family's first Toyota truck was a 1974 and it wasn't badged Hilux by then.

The use of "Hilux" for US-market "Truck" has always tended to confuse me in this forum's lexicon...

 

The T100 was bigger than midsize, at least back then… but not full-size. It began this whole odd Japanese trend of making trucks and minivans that are not completely full-size to compete in the US market before fully committing to the bloat.

 

I never really was hard core into till 1999 so really had no clue about in the seventies.

Those days it was the Chevy Muscle Cars and full size 4x4 Pick ups.

 

Hey I appreciate the response and am probably going to stick to my original plan. I’d heard of the T100 but never seen one in person so I was curious.

 

It’s like if somebody built a modern 2020s midsize truck in the 1990s based on what a truck should be in the 1990s.

edit: and then they marketed it as an alternative to full size trucks of the time, while not being as large or as powerful and idiosyncratically Japanese.