A pickup will definitely not have that kind of setup. Your best choice for something similar is either an off road shop or to try to find a professional off-roader at a junkyard and salvage its suspension.
While you're at the junkyard, you could also get the brakes from a Ford or a Vauxhall. Should be both cheap and sufficient for a build as light as yours.
Anything between 600 and 900cc made within a decade should be great. Preferable to be widely available and renowned for reliability so I presume any of the mainstream Japanese companies's bikes are good .
Actually, I think you might also want to look at snowmobiles. They are more or less equipped with the same engines that are on their motorcycle counterparts but the CVT transmission is a better base then tweaking with a motorbike chain transmission or an expensive sequential gearbox from Holinger or Quaife.
Although I agree with the post above, I think that you should first think thoroughly what you want. From what I understand, you want something in between dirt and tarmac. IMO that makes it a compromise and like one, will be drivable on a lot of terrains but won't particularly shine on any.
Put your aims in line and consider build options on them.
Round 3(15th May 2010) of the International Grand Touring Championship was held at the twisty and challenging track that is Aston North.
Qualifying proved to be a fantastic result for ineX with Rudy van Buren managing to put the number 35 ineX Racing car on the pole by two tenths of a second.
Nolan Scott would take the first stint for ineX, quickly building a gap between him and Alternative Racing. Although successfully extending the gap to 7 seconds in the first quarter of the stint, Nolan unluckily started to experience tire issues halfway through his stint. This would eventually lead to a right-rear tire blow out at just over 55 minutes into the run. The Blow out took place in a high speed left hander, which instantly projected the car into a spin. Fortunately, the incident happened not too far from the pits, and Nolan lost minimal time getting four fresh tires.
Soon afterward, the server experienced technical issues and had to be restarted. Due to time constraints, Nolan Scott wasn't be able to perform his second stint, and therefore Rudy van Buren had to take over the car for the remaining 3 hours. Starting in 11th position after the server restart, Rudy would immensely cut the gap between him and 1st place, finding himself in 5th position before turn 1 and then in 3rd place before the safety car was deployed again on the track. After the race was resumed, Rudy profited from the FZR's speed advantage over the XRR in 2nd and made a move into turn one, thus leaving only Spdo Racing between himself and 1st place.
Although he couldn't benefit from another safety car, Rudy constantly applied pressure on the Spdo car which was also having tire problems. This proved too much for the Spdo Racing driver and eventually lead to a mistake, allowing the ineX car to take 1st place. For the remainder of the race, Rudy increased the gap by 56 seconds. With the exception of a few close encounters with some back markers, Rudy drove smoothly until the end of the race, thus handing ineX Racing a triple in it's IGTC debut.
Loved it! And for no apparent reason, I get this old school vibe from it. It reminds me of an intro for a 60s-70s movie. Loved the cameras, loved the song, only one regret: I wish it had better quality.
Oh dear me.. Who knew that a simple video of a car crashing would start again the race vs drift flamewar.
Moving on to the movie, I'd say that its biggest problem is the fact that there is no story. I mean there is no purpose for the jump. Of course it would do without it if the jump itself would be amazing but it it's not. It isn't spectacular or outstanding, a few of the camera view were quite good but the rest were mediocre to bad. And what about that HUD mistake at the beginning.
Honestly don't know what happened here. I remember you doing a couple of vids better then this one. Well what goes around comes around so I expect your next video to be a lot better
Way too much contrast, that's for sure! Actually, the effects were all overdone and to be quite honest, leaving aside the fact that your retro beginning wasn't that good on it's own, it's made even worse by the fact that you transitioned from it to a funky techno? song
Just stay in there! Everyone had to start at some point.