The Violet from last monday made me think about its rally heritage. The Violet A10 was Nissan's most successful rally car and the later models were powered by the LZ20 DOHC engine we know from the Nissan Super Silhouette Formula cars. Back in 1982 Nissan still appreciated their rally achievements and showed it with this TV advertisement:

The video starts with a the normal Gazelle S110 RS commercial, but shortly after that it shows the Nissan Violet A10 splashing through a big muddy pools and going sideways on the fourth Safari Rally. As a bonus it gets followed by another Gazelle S110 RS commercial! Probably they couldn't get enough of that 4 valve FJ20E engine of theirs! Now that is appreciation! :)

During one of my late night old J-tin searches I came across a weird German ad selling the front end of an old Datsun:

Datsun Violet A10 front clip
I recognized it as a EU Datsun Violet front end (aka the Auster/Stanza/510/160J). I'm not sure if the German license plate actually belongs to this front end, but they are the old pre 1994 German plates issued in Fürth (Bayern) which is next to Nürnberg where the seller lives. So perhaps the front clip of his old Violet?

The funny thing is that on this picture you can actually see the holes where the JDM fender mirrors are supposed to be mounted:
The other picture and more after the jump...