Datsun Fairlady- how many in OZ?

[Banzai]

Thanks for filling in Greg. The above mentioned trailer can be found at:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/the_incredibles/

It is the new Trailer 2. I know one of the animators at Pixar owns a Datsun Roadster and there is a good 3-D model of the Datto available on the web so it isn't a huge surprise to see one in this movie.

The Nostalgic Hero list has some curiousities. The Honda S600 instead of the S800? Back in the 90s most of the surviving S800s in Australia were bought up and shipped back to Japan. The Japanese didn't want to know about the S600. I owned an S800 for a couple of years (great car BTW) but there is no way I would own an S600.
The Toyota Sports 800 is also curious. Underpowered 2 cylinder with a fibreglass body and poor handling.

The DR30 is odd for that list. The other cars are all 1960s and 1970s with the possible exception of #25, the Galant GTO (looked very similar to the "Mustang" shaped Celica). That car may have just spilled into the early 80s

[Evo_Lee]

Banzai...oppps, just checked the issue again...I'll make the correction sharing No.6 S600 as well is S800

And the A53 Galant GTO is 1970, but No.10 KHGC211XFT Skyline HT2000 Turbo GT-E X is 1980-81, like the DR30...definitely an odd one but made it I guess due to readers votes.

Nostalgic Hero Dec 2003 issue.

Greg for your interest...your CPS311 came in No. 38, the list continued on to 50 but only the top 25 had detail writeups.

26. Suzuki LC10 Fronte 360
27. Nissan R31 Skyline ***another 80's***
28. Mazda Savana RX-7 ***doesn't mention the model but I'd imagine it's the SA22***
29. Nissan 30 Type Cedric
30. Toyota RS30 Crown
31. Honda VA Life Step-Van
32. Isuzu JR130 Piazza
33. Mazda R360 Coupe
34. Subaru R-2
35. Nissan R32 Skyline ***this is already Nostalgic!!!***
36. GM/Isuzu PF60 Gemini ***our favourite***
37. Toyota 1600GT
38. Nissan CSP311 Silvia
39. Mitsubishi A73 Lancer
40. Honda 1300 Coupe
41. Daihatsu Midget
42. Nissan 710 Violet
43. Honda SA Life
44. Nissan E10 Cherry
45. Daihatsu Compagno
46. Subaru 1000
47. Mazda Carol
48. Honda Z
49. Honda Vamos
50. Toyota Publica

[edo]

Hey, does anyone know of any of those sylvias for sale? That looks sweet...Id love a different old datto...cant believe I want a sylvia

BTW I use the datto term to decribe all nissans...I never thought of it as an insult

[Zac]

Those old Silvias are rarer than the Fairladys, sorry edo!

[edo]

They look cool though...hmmm I'll keep an eye out in unique cars...if anyone sees one for sale then tell me!!!

[Spammy]

I'm well impressed by the amount of knowledge people have on this topic...tahnks for the info.

That light metallic green Sylivia looks like somebody has cut and shut it by 30cms.

[Banzai]

That Silvia is pretty much standard apart from the wheels. Total of 554 manufactured from 1965 to 1967. Only 49 came to Australia and we were the largest export market for them.

http://www.users.bigpond.com/fairlady/

I know the author

[edo]

Oh good so Im trying to find 1 of 49 cars that came here 30 plus years ago...should be a piece of piss

[fdrx7]

Wow! and I thought I was going to be the only one to reply to this one
edo:
http://www.angelfire.com/ns/silvia/silviaregister.html
Though I think you're nuts for wanting the coupe!

[edo]

I know Im nuts but thats not the issue...Ive emailed the for sale one

[Datto-Zed]

What a stocker should look like:

http://www.classiczcars.com/photopos...showroom-2.jpg
http://www.classiczcars.com/photopos...showroom-1.jpg
http://www.classiczcars.com/photopos...showroom-4.jpg
http://www.classiczcars.com/photopos...showroom-3.jpg

[IMOA]

For the silvias you might want to think of importing a fully restored one from japan edo. Having a very quick look there's 4 for sale on goo atm ranging from about 23k aussie to 35k. There's a nice 2.0 csp for 30k

Phil - where's the pics of your fairlady!

[Saru]

What a great thread! There were three or four fairlady roadsters at a car show in Canberra in November last year.To my eyes the gun version is the 2000 low-screen - though out of 1300-odd cars there's not many of those in the country, or so I've been told.

[edo]

any links to that for the spastic who can barely use a 'puter

[IMOA]

I better give you links direct to the ad's then, hope this works

csp311 1.6 5 speed

csp311 2.0 5 speed

sp311 1.6 4 speed

sp311 2.0 4 speed

Remember with the prices the man (万) symbol means 10,000 yen so a price of 173.3万円 is 1,733,000 yen or about 22500 aussie. Hmm, that second one looks good, likely not concourse but a good price for the 2.0 5 speed with a nice set of what look to be watanabe's to me. I imagine Dotars would get a shock if someone used the 15 year rule as it was originally intended