Nissan

Time for some more car chases! This time it is Mitsubishis versus Nissans!
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This video clip of Guerilla: Tokyo Police Group 8 shows what carnage a group of Nissans can do against the police Mitsubishis. Lucky enough Shou Kuramoto (chief Daimon in Seibu Keisatsu) kills off the rocket launcher. Unfortunately two perfectly good Nissan Gazelle S110s get killed instantly and the Cedric manages to survive a good 8 minutes. So the Mitsubishis prevail over the Nissans. Nissan versus Mitsubishi, 0 : 1.

This Nissan cinema advertisement from 1980 should have no comments at all: the tiny dust cloud tells you everything!

Last week I wrote about the Nissan brochure from 1965. I mentioned the test track at the Oppama plant (追浜工場) in Yokosuka. I was a bit curious about it and tried to find pictures and videos of the track.

I did find two videos on Youtube. The first one is a video by Nissan to promote the track:

It mentions everything about the track and shows all different testing methods by Nissan. You can see the V35 Skyline being tested on the track. A bit of a shame the GT-R wasn't available yet when this video was made...

The other video is one of a touringcar driving the track:

It is about the dullest touringcar ride I've ever seen! The driver must have thought that driving a bus on a circuit in the rain is very dangerous and kept himself to a maximum of 30 km/h! Ah well, at least you can enjoy the view this way. ;)

Some time ago I saw an ad on Marktplaats selling a brochure Nissan 1965 without any picture with it. The description sounded good, it was fairly cheap (considering the age of it) and I contacted the seller. He didn't have any possibility to send me pictures so I took the "risk". Few days later this arrived:

Brochure Nissan 1965
It is actually a book of 50 pages and it is entirely in English. It was meant to be given away to new possible import companies and dealerships.

Brochure Nissan 1965
It shows the modernized Nissan during the early 60s: a modern car lineup, healthy figures, four modern production plants and even a test facility! Their growth is amazing during the late 50s and early 60s: between 20% and 25% growth each year!

Brochure Nissan 1965
As you can see: they have a model for almost everyone! On the front row the Fairladies on the left, the bluebird 410s in the middle and the new Silvia on the right. On the second row all the Cedrics are lined up. On the remaining rows all the utilitarian vehicles are shown.

Brochure Nissan 1965
This is the Oppama plant (追浜工場) in Yokosuka with a private pier at the Tokyo Bay and you can also see the test track on the background. The plant was considered the most modern car factory back in 1961 when it was opened and later in 1970 the first car factory to make use of robot welding. The test track is the very same as the one used in the 1960s Nissan Bluebird crashtest videos I posted some time ago.

Brochure Nissan 1965
And of course their latest product: a 1595cc two seater listening to the lovely name Silvia.

There is much much more in this book and I'm very happy I took the gamble to buy this unseen. A true gem! :)

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. (｀-´)>