Dutch Datsun delivery...

carchaeologist

Late last year a collection of 7 late '70s Datsuns came up for sale in Holland, only as a complete job lot. A guy in england bought them after much emailing and haggling, supposedly for restoration, even though hes a banger racer himself. The asking price was 4 grand for the lot.
Heres the pics. Pretty epic all told i reckon. Imagine passing that transporter on the motorway...:)

Ali Babba

I sold a 280c estate many years ago with only 15k miles from new, well rotten though but a very impressive car for its day, the back side window had a feature where if you turned the door key in a separate key barrel located at the side by the quarter panel, the window would open to allow you put your bags etc. into the car with out opening the car, it was very well speced too for it's time.

Max_Damage

even though hes a banger racer himself.

I fear the worst.

Ali Babba

Yeah, a whole 280C class, imagine that............:D

Ali Babba

carchaeologist wrote: »

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The coupe one looks interesting, two hopes of getting any body parts or trim for it though....

carchaeologist

The 280C was a good banger tool in it's day. They still occasionally get raced.
A great car, one was for sale on DoneDeal last year. Your right about the rear window opening Ali, funny thing about the estates was the rear seats were rubbish compared to the saloons because they had to be made to fold down.
Can't have been many 280s sold here new?

G Luxel

Ali Babba wrote: »

the back side window had a feature where if you turned the door key in a separate key barrel located at the side by the quarter panel, the window would open to allow you put your bags etc. into the car with out opening the car, it was very well speced too for it's time.

That was a feature on some 70s US station wagons like the Chevrolet Caprice Clamshell wagon. You turned the key on the rear and the window lowered into the tailgate panel...........so maybe Japan copied America.

carchaeologist

G Luxel wrote: »

.....so maybe Japan copied America.

I think they copied everyone and everything..

jimmyw

Max_Damage wrote: »

I fear the worst.

No apparently that was not the case.This story was featured in the April issue of a magazine called "Practical Classics".This is what was wrote about it on the website.

Fifth posts down on pages one and two

http://www.practicallyclassics.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=253

G Luxel

The shape of those 70s datsuns remind me of an early 70s American saloon but on a much smaller scale......:) something Ford?

carchaeologist

This was at Rosegreen a few years back, it didn't get wrecked there though for some reason. It looked to be in extremely good condition.