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[Rick]

It seems that the Datsun brand is being re-juvenated for the 21st century, has anyone here memories of owning Datsuns in the past - perhaps the 100A, 120Y, or 180? - the only model that stands out for me as being half-interesting is the 240Z, before it became too lardy with later versions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23313271

RJ
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Learnt to drive in a 120Y

[D4B]

Bought a 100A for £75 drove it for 30,000 miles and sold it for £550

Brilliant little car

Also had a 120Y coupe which was awful

[Ellis]

[Ray the rocker]

nice to see the name emerge again --the old models were imported up to saturation point inthe early seventies and were an instant hit.working for a datsun dealership in cardiff,they could`nt get enough stock to cover the rush. on any monday morning,you spent over three days doing pdi`s on 100a cherry`s--160/180b saloons--laurels and 240z sports.japanese expertese had taken over whilst the british motor industry stood still and watched. mechanically very sound but bodily they turned out to be rust buckets !!
I owned a 260c--looked like a canal barge but hey--bought it cheap and the straight six cylinder coupled with auto transmission made journeys so comfy.could only get 16 miles to the gallon tho--so sold it on and made double what i paid for it . cheers---ray the rocker......

[roverdriver]

I bought a 180b about 15 years ago, and ran it for approximately five years. I was rather impressed with the design of an inboard differential and independent suspension. The motor was very willing and even though the car was quite old, and worn, I have nothing but praise for it.

We managed a trip to Adelaide in it ( over 500 miles each way) for a long weekend, and it performed beautifully. Unfortunately, a year later, when in Ballarat, ( only 150 miles from home) the differential gave out. The family and I got home by other means. I was lucky enough to be given another rather wrecked car, so managed to remove that one's diff and return the following weekend to Ballarat to swap diffs over. The return journey was uneventful.
Obviously we don't have the rust problems of England, but the boot floor was well rusted out. After tolerating that for a while, I took advantage of the given spare car, and using a jig-saw cut out the boot floor from it. I pressed the replacement floor on top of the old rusted one, and it jammed in there quite well, so I never got around to fastening it down.

Eventually time and mileage caught up with the 180b and that is when my loyalties switched to Rovers.
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