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Video: 1971 Japanese Grand Prix Fuji International Speeday

Submitted by banpei on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 08:09

Rocketpencil uploaded another astonishing video: the 1971 Japanese Grand Prix held at Fuji International Speedway!

It consists out of three races: the Touring A (1600cc) class, Touring B (2000cc) class and the Grand Touring class, translating into Bluebird, Skyline and Fairlady Z.

All non-Nissanians will complain I over simplified it a bit. Yes there are indeed other cars (like the Mazda RX-2) but that's what the main field and winners looked like... Only later that year the Mazda RX-3s broke the winning victory streak of those menacing Skylines...

Another genuine Dutch Datsun catalogue

Submitted by banpei on Sat, 09/12/2009 - 09:06

Got another present from the postman earlier this week:

Dit is Datsun: Dutch catalogue (cover)

This is a 28 page catalogue to celebrate the 6th anniversary of Datsun in the Netherlands. It also featured a small part about their almost finished new HQ near Lisse.

Dit is Datsun: Dutch catalogue (fold out)

The mid sections contains a few fold outs from which this one is the most interesting: the 1972 lineup:
- Datsun 100A (Cherry E10)
- Datsun 1200 (Sunny B110)
- Datsun 1600 (Bluebird 510)
- Datsun 1800 (Bluebird 610)
- Datsun 2400 (Cedric C230)
- Nissan 2400GT (Skyline HGLC10)
- Datsun 240Z

Yes, that is not a mistake I made there: Nissan sold the Skyline on its export markets under the Nissan brand. There could have been various reasons to do so from which I personally think it had to do something with the Prince merger...

Dit is Datsun: Dutch catalogue (2000 Hardtop Coupe)

As you could see there was a gap in the lineup: the only car not featured in the lineup was the 2000. In the next fold out this car is highlighted as the new model of the 2000 range with a nice drawing of the 2000 Hardtop Coupe. The 2000 is also known as the Nissan Laurel C130 and is very very popular car as a zokusha. ( ﾟヮﾟ)

Of course this catalogue will be scanned and posted here, just like the Nissan 2400GT catalogue I'm currently scanning. (｀-´)>