Tag: cherry F10

JDM Trivia #4: Nissan Sportsmatic

JDM Trivia number four: Nissan Sportsmatic Nobody took a guess at last weeks teaser and maybe it was a bit too strange indeed. So the question was what is this device called and what does it do? The device is the Nissan Sportsmatic that was featured in both the Nissan Cherry F10 and the Nissan…




Picture of the Week: Dutch Datsun car dealer in 1977

I found this scanned newspaper photo of a showroom of the Dutch Datsun car dealer Rhenoy (in 1977) posted in japanseklassieker.nl Facebook group and immediately thought to share it here: What I quickly spotted in this photo was (from top left clockwise): Datsun 160B / 180B / 200B coupe (aka Nissan Bluebird 810) Datsun 260Z…




Friday video: junkyard car crashes

Where do stuntmen come from? Well apparently in the Netherlands they first work on a local junkyard for a couple of years! Krimson37 taped a bunch of the crashes he made in 1992 and I picked out two involving destruction of J-tin. Small warning in case you understand Dutch: be prepared for some foul language……




JAF2011: Finally some celluloid photos! (part 2)

In total there were three AE86s on the paddock. Yesterday I already posted the purple Corolla AE86 with the BEAMS 3S-GE conversion, so how about this red Corolla AE86 with some deep dished SSR dori-dori rims? His Corolla Levin AE86 started its life as a Swiss red panda Corolla GT and slowly he migrated it…




Ying and Yang Datsun Cherry F10

Yesterday Japanese Nostalgic Car posted pictures of the Z-Car Club of Inland Valley Show in Temecula. Even though the name implies that it was a Z-Car only meeting, there were actually quite a lot of non Z-Cars at the meeting! The most spectacular of them was this double frontend Datsun Cherry F10: Double frontend Datsun…