Last week I posted a picture of the showroom of a Dutch Datsun dealership and I remembered I also got a genuine Datsun pricelist with the Dutch Datsun catalogue I bought some time ago: The Datsun pricelist is from February 1973 (pre 1973 oil crisis) and the prices are at least a bit surprising:…
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…
How often do you encounter a rally car parked down on the street? I guess almost next to none. So how about encountering a Datsun 240Z rally car then? On my way home from doing groceries I spotted this 240Z immediately. It was parked next to the local Japanese teppanyaki restaurant, so I stopped by…
It has taken about a month for me to finally post up some of the celluloid photographs I took with my Zenit-E and a “new” Industar 61 lens at the Japans Autosport Festival 2011 at Zandvoort. As we Dutch say: “It takes a while but then you have something!” but that probably hits like a…
I came across this little gem half a year ago but last week it popped up on Marktplaats for the second time: a 240Z with Turbo Diesel conversion by Mosselman! Datsun 240Z Turbo Diesel The 240Z has been given a nice set of Mag Style alloys and a set of ELC mirrors: Datsun 240Z Turbo…