#datsun car models

[alfazagato2]

IPMS/GTR The Summer NNL, August 3 2024, Crystal Lake, IL, Part 2

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Datsun 280ZXR, 1979. One of 1001 280ZX homologation specials is to be offered at auction. What makes this car extra special is that it has travelled only 15miles since it was new 44 years ago. It was delivered new to St. Yves Motor Sales in Berkley, Massachusetts where it become part of their collection. The ZXR models came with a rear spoiler to homologate the special rear wing on its race cars. It will be offered at Mecum Auction's Kissimmee sale in January

auction listing

[seat-safety-switch]

When I was in school, one of the most popular pastimes was to play cards. Cards are little pieces of, well, cardboard. You use the numbers on the face of them to invoke specific rules of the game, and then depending on your ability to master the game rules and pure luck, you will win or lose the game. Dull, and certainly inferior to working on shitbox automobiles as a way to while away the time. Where things get interesting is the betting.

For whatever reason, our dumb ass ape brains really like it when we risk money to win more money. It's why Wall Street got shut down by the Allthoughts last year, who decided that it was ultimately very inefficient to torture a bunch of stockbrokers in order to make 5.6% returns. Now, with the new model, everyone just gets 5.7% returns, and as long as we don't look too closely, nothing bad will happen to the economy. Some economist will, though, because they want to win a bet.

Playing cards for money is much more exciting than regular cards. When you win a game normally, you just get to make fun of the other people who played with you. Sometimes there's a little paper crown that they stole from Burger King by telling them a child was having a birthday, but this is rare. With money, things change. You get to have a little more money, which you can then spend on something useless like food and housing. It is never enough to, say, buy a sequential-shift all-wheel-drive rally transmission with CNC-machined straight-cut gears, a life-changing car part if there ever was one.

For this reason, I only gamble the objectively correct way: with shitbox cars. Will the jack punch right through the floor of this Datsun? Maybe a snake is hiding in the glovebox. How many of the previous owner's kids peed in this thing? All of these side bets make used-car purchasing exciting, and I have to tell you that, even though I always seem to lose a shitload of money, it is always worth it for the fun of the game.

[your-unfriendlyghost]

ur fav old car 3 2 1 go

THANK you for asking this is gonna be so fun (for me. And hopefully you. Idk if everyone else really wants to hear this but that’s their problem now)

It’s a tough question tho, ‘cuz there’s so many I like that it’s hard to say! Here’s a few in no particular order- but again I like a lotta old cars so it’s not gonna be an exhaustive list

(also btw none of the pics here are mine lol- every time I see a classic car I like irl, I always seem to be driving myself so I never can get good pics 😭)

The late 50s T-bird (I’m not crazy about the color of this one but hey it’s still really cool- dig the porthole window in the back)

2. The ‘67 Impala (fun dumb fact about me- I carry a toy impala in my school bag. When I get bored in class I take it out and either try to draw it or roll it at my friends to bug them)

3. Some early ‘70s Datsuns! These are harder for me to classify ‘cuz the models are given numbers, not traditional names, and I don’t always do so good with numbers lol. I think this one’s a ‘72 240C. But w/ these it’s not so much a specific model I like- I just like the vibes of most of the ones that look like this. (I saw one sorta like this one at a motor show once, I wish I had gotten a better picture- but I didn’t so take this one I found online lol)

4. The ‘58 Plymouth Fury- Very “Christine”, I know, but I can’t help it, she’s such a great lookin car holy hell. Plus I liked Plymouth furies before I knew they had anything to do with Stephen King ok (Funnily enough, a week or so before I wound up reading “Christine”, I saw one of these in a Dairy Queen parking lot. Me and my buddy got so hyped about it that I momentarily forgot that my kid brother had just dropped his melting cherry dipped cone directly onto my shorts)

Okay, that’s probably enough for now because tbh I’ve been having so much fun thinking about this that I’m about half an hour late for working out- There’s a lot more old cars that I adore and could ramble on about for hours, but I’d better wrap this up before I get more late/it gets too long lol. Thanks so much for asking!!

(And sorry to all y’all who follow me for art lol- what can I say, I may like to draw but I am still a teenage dude… I’m ✨multifaceted ✨)

[ca-dmv-bot]

Customer: the car serial number and my son's name DMV: 510 IS A BAY AREA AREA CODE, CUSTOMER IS IN SANTA ROSA. 510 IS A DATSUN/NISSAN MODEL, CUSTOMER HAS A NISSAN Verdict: ACCEPTED

[carmellawolfess]

Okay but like unironically these handful of cars in on the late 80's early 90's are rad as hell. One of my personal favorites were Nissans/Datsuns 300zx series. Between the boxier design of the z31 to the curvier z32.

The magic for me in them is with the digital dashboard and clusters. Granted these were done as an luxury upgrade to the base model of the car they were not always the most accurate from display actual speed. Making it a very funny temperamental car.

[seeminglydark]

We've seen the interior of Johnny's place-- will we ever see Caro's place?

Short answer, yes! Caro’s lived in three different places since leaving their parents, the Datsun they bought with scrapped together cash from their model jobs/beauty pageant winnings as a kid, and a cabin/shed behind the GASCO, once their boss realized they were sleeping in their car and was like, uh, no.

Now they live in a high rise condo in Seattle, I haven’t fully designed it yet but we will see it eventually, both in Seemingly Dark and Mil-Liminal. It’s what you might expect, fairly modern and full of pastels and iridescent stuff. It’s basically a spooky kids Barbie dream house, bordering on cringe in a fun way. It’s got their recording studio and a doorman/security detail who indulge Caro with secret Passcodes and walkie-talkies. They have thus far refused to do any of those celeb house tours so no one really knows where they live or how it looks. They tend to meet people in other places. To be honest even though it’s their ‘dream house’ it’s super fucking lonely and they hate it. They really only go home to record new episodes. That’s why they spend all their time at johns, his house feels like a home, lived in and well loved, even if it’s drafty and cramped. It reminds them of their beloved shed.

[youhavehitawall]

im working on a fanfic involving chick hicks' mom

and ive been doing nothing but scrolling through dozens and dozens of photos of japanese cars from the 1950s to try and find a car that feasibly, if it had a ""biological"" kid with a ford mustang, the kid would look like a buick grand national

cars genetics is a nightmare

(i thought youd like this)

hi i feel ur pain and Also u opened the autism can so im gonna talk about car models (i deleted over 2k words of car genetics)

Chicks dad as a mustang is an interesting choice! I have always put him as a plymouth duster, mostly because of the spoiler, hip, coupe and strange grille-headlight combination. Plymouth is also "genetically" much closer to buick than ford is and is therefore more likely to sire a buick child (i have many many paragraphs about manufacturing. cars basically have horse blood). The duster also has a performance V8 range which is essential to any racecar. But anyway!

Excluding that, it's difficult to mix and match cars based on styles if you also want to keep a consistent timeline. Car production has had very distinct and largely monotonous fashion eras, and in the 1950s you're barely getting away from the generation of coach builders that first designed and made cars. As such most of these cars are sleek and not very Buick Boxy at all. If i was picking a genetic likelihood to make a car like the Grand National, i'd go powertrain-first, style second. this is difficult because in the 1950s Japan's car market was focused on fleet vehicles - taxis, mostly - and you won't find many marketed performance vehicles until mid-1960s ( because of the Kei Car laws ). However after some research there is really only one option you have here. Like genuinely.

1963 Datsun "Fairlady" - to be dramatic, this is the beginning of Japanese racing. i know its outside your range but this is the most historically and mechanically accurate car for what Chick Hicks would be. it's the predecessor to the 240Z. like come on. also look at that face! How could you say no to that?

personally i HC chick as half-italian because i think about michael keaton as the voice of porco rosso way too often and i think itd be great if porco rosso was a) real and b) chicks grandfather. so for me his mum is a cross lancia appia / fiat turbina.

[redsnowdrop]

Ford Mustang

Second Generation (1973-1978)

Iacocca, creator of the first Mustang, became president of the Ford Motor Company in 1979 and ordered that the new Mustang be smaller and more efficient. It was initially supposed to be based on the Ford Maverick, but was later made by the Ford Pinto.

The new model, called "Mustang II", was introduced on September 21, 1973, two months before the first oil crisis of 1973, and its small size allowed it to compete with Japanese imported sports coupes such as the Datsun 240Z and Toyota Celica. It was produced until 1978.

At the end of 1973, coinciding with the energy crisis that occurred that year, the Mustang II was introduced, a car that was short-lived but which won Ford another award as car of the year . This model brought the Mustang back to the 1964 model in size, shape and overall styling. The car proved to be smaller than previous models as well as slower and heavier even though the company placed great emphasis on the quality of its finishing, which was defined as the highest ever made in the US automotive industry. Regarding dimensions, the Mustang II was 50 cm shorter, 10 cm narrower and 2.5 cm lower than the previous version.

The Mustang II was available in a 3-door hardtop body style. The basic version was equipped with a 2.3 liter (146 in3) inline four-cylinder engine with a single overhead camshaft. This engine was the first to be built using the metric system instead of the American measurement system. The 2.8-litre V6 (170in3), produced in Europe for the Capri, was available as an option. This meant that the V8 engine disappeared, albeit only for 1974, from the Mustang range. This absence was subject to several criticisms from fans of the car who wrote many letters to trade magazines.

Ford reintroduced the V8 engine with the 1975 model year but since the car was not designed to accommodate a similar engine it was necessary to proceed with a significant redesign of the vehicle. The basic model from which to create the Mustang II was the Ford Pinto. The engine chosen was the 4.9 liter (302in3) V8.

In 1976 the special version Cobra II was launched. This car was inspired by the Shelby Mustang, and for this reason it was equipped with a large air intake on the hood, the Shelby emblem on the radiator grille, a rear spoiler and racing stripes in different shades. Only the appearance was sporty, as the engine was within the standards of the Mustang II.

In any case, the car was a good commercial success and 400,000 examples were produced in the first year. The success was due more than to the innovations introduced to the fact that this model was able to regain the affection of the public as had happened with the 1964 model.

Even the oil crisis, which practically eliminated the most powerful range of cars from the price lists of almost all car manufacturers, did not interrupt the success of the Mustang II.

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

Hello! question for you? do you have a favorite car lock/unlock chime?

Hello! Answer for you:

That's a very hard opinion for me to form because here cars don't have them, we just trust car owners to be able to tell that the car that made the clunking sound and indicators flash it does when it locks its doors locked its doors. Which is partly why this answer comes to you well over two weeks after your asked me, as I just didn't know what to do with it.

So I could answer that my favorite chime is around 6:38 in this video, which I recommend you don't skip to because the rest of the video is great too...

...but if that feels like cheating to you, well, I'm out of answers.

So I will just talk horns and chimes some more until you're satisfied.

My mother's Citroën had this seatbelt chime, which I found pretty endearing, but without the peculiarity herein described. (It should start at 11:41, just in case it doesn't for you.)

My father's Audi had this calm, soothing chime which perfectly suited its soothing comfort, yet always reminded me of something...

2000s Renaults had a talking vehicle computer!

And if that sounds like a very 80s thing, well, you're absolutely right!

Chrysler's Electronic Voice Alert, or EVA, was an option made available in the mid-80s that used the Texas Instruments' LPC Speech Chip you know and love from the Speak & Spell.

Unfortunately, while that was just a warnings list, many of those were spoken quite frequently, in part due to the vehicles in question being mid-80s Chrysler products, leading to the system swiftly getting on people's nerves, and in the models before a switch to turn it off was included owners resorted to pulling the fuse, which in some cases disabled the fuel gauge. Welp.

But that was not the only system nor first system of its kind: there was, in 1983, the MG Maestro's system.

If that voice sounds familiar, its voice actress Nicolette McKenzie had starred in John Sichel's Merchant Of Venice. If you're not from that side of Tumblr, she also starred in Horizon: Zero Dawn. A monotonous career path sure doesn't seem to be among her problems.

But this system was not the first either: some '81 to '84 Nissans (or Datsuns, as those were the very years that brand name, created for American shores, was getting phased out) used a Voice Warning system that used an even earlier technology than TI's chip (that's Texas Instrument's LPC speech synthesizing integrated circuits, not the money of trap music pioneer T.I.): a phonograph.

This wasn't a novel approach either, phonograph-based warning systems being used in late '70s-early '80s appliances and toys, and in-car record players having been a thing even prior!

In fact, to paraphrase Dr. Doofenshmirtz, If I had a nickel for every time I wrote about in-car phonographs, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?

Although in 1985 Nissan too went electronic for their voice warning system - here's the warnings from those systems over a bad MIDI cover of Thrift Shop.

And that's without even getting into custom door chimes!

And boy will I ever get into custom chimes once I get to that section of my Miata Mod Master Mᴉsɥlᴉsʇ (that's "Wishlist" upside down), which by my estimations should be about April 2024. So keep your eyes peeled!

Links in blue are posts of mine about the topic in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

[identifying-cars-in-posts]

hey, what trucks would you recommend? I don't want the big ones because their 1} REALLY scary to me because I can't see things under it 2} I live in an apartment. I don't wanna be annoying so I'm abit confused. Sorry if this is out of your jurisdiction! -🛸

no worries! depending on how old you’re willing to go i would recommend a chevy s-10 or toyota tacoma! the s-10 never got particularly big and older tacomas (through like the mid 2000s) stayed pretty small. i’ll also tentatively recommend the ford ranger, the only one i’ve been in was real rocky but people generally really like them and find them pretty reliable. if you’re willing to go back to like 80s and 90s, i would throw the jeep comanche (with the 4.0L inline six engine, not the 4 cylinder) and nissan hardbody/pretty much any datsun minitrucks into the mix, along side the first three i recommended, those were all made to some degree in the 80s. bonus shoutout to the subaru baja, which isn’t technically a pickup (it’s a ute) but it has a bed and is smaller - i believe it’s on the same base as the outback. just be wary of the head gaskets, that’s THE point subarus tend to fail. all of these are smaller pickups with 4wd models that are closer in size and height to a regular car. and other than the baja i believe they all have a 2wd version as well

if you’re willing to go suv as well, i’d go with an older honda crv or rav4. if you want a truck based suv the jeep cherokee xj and chevy s10 blazer are both good older options

[diecastcarlove]

Red Datsun Fairlady

MiniGT/Kaido House Collaboration - Datsun KAIDO Fairlady Z MOTUL V2 Car #036

1:64 scale diecast model car.

Photographed with my iPhone 15 Pro Max.

[ph-pix]

More photos of 1/18 scale car models.

This batch contains a Datsun 240z, a Mercedes CLK (endurance race car), and a Mercedes C-Class saloon.

[nurtureliterary]

A Few Things I Think About Differently Now That I’m Older

Aaron Burch

How, when we’d return to California to visit family in the summers, my dad would drive us around on little nostalgia tours — that’s where I went to high school, this was the strip we’d cruise on the weekends, that used to be our favorite burger joint…

The wooden model NASA space shuttle, hand-carved and -painted by my uncle, given to me as a gift in my preteen years; knocked off a shelf when I was a teenager, resulting in a broken fin and a few chips in the paint; left behind when I moved out of the house for college; and which is still in one of my parents’ closets, I presume.

Every sketchpad and package of pens and pencils and little kid watercolor set and every other art supply that my parents ever bought me.

How every Sunday was for chores, my brother and I tasked with cleaning our rooms or yardwork when it was nice out or sprinkling down deodorizing carpet freshener powder and vacuuming or moving framed photos and knickknacks and other small pieces of décor and spraying wood cleaner onto old rags and washcloths and wiping down tabletops and the fireplace mantel and windowsills.

The boxy 80s cars I grew up with and hated at the time—my grandmother’s giant blue Ford boat of a car that I thought was so big and ugly and grandparenty that my mom and grandmother would tease was going to become my car, as a punishment; my dad’s ugly Datsun station wagon that I didn’t understand why anyone (much less my dad) would ever purchase; my grandmother’s mid80s Mustang that she gave me when I got my driver’s license, which I loved but also treated like shit and also never understood how it could be the same make and model as such cool muscle cars from the 60s and 70s.

Every weekend that we drove a few hours to go camping or hiking or fishing or to some festival that I didn’t really care about—blues, bluegrass, kite, etc.—or to go on some kind of tour—chocolatier, cheese, brewery, candy, etc.

All the toys and report cards and baseball cards and photos that are still in my parents’ various closets.

The coffee table made by my grandfather that I took with me when I moved to California with my girlfriend-at-the-time after college and that I’m not sure what happened to after we broke up and I moved out but that was the nicest piece of furniture I’ve ever owned.

Eating healthy, exercise, drinking water, going to the dentist, sunscreen.

The smell of that Arm & Hammer carpet freshening powder, that Old English wood spray.

All the sports equipment and league fees and Taekwondo lessons and tournament fees and travel costs, often whether they could really afford it or not, whether it meant borrowing money from their parents or my dad working overtime or skimping on something else that I probably didn’t know about at the time, always so supportive and encouraging in every endeavor I wanted to try.

Aaron Burch's first novel, Year of the Buffalo, is out this month from American Buffalo Books. Recent short work (fiction and non) has appeared or is forthcoming in Hex, Menagerie Magazine, Complete Sentence, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. He is (too) on Twitter @aaron__burch and on the world wide web at aaronburch.net. The last time he visited Washington with his girlfriend, he felt a deep desire to drive her around and show her the house he grew up in, where he went to high school, his favorite teenage skate spots. He often wishes he took better care of things—probably most especially himself and also those things made and given to him by loved ones—when younger. His apartment is a mess, which only highlights the pleasures of when it is clean, and while he sometimes fears the slide from packrat to hoarder, he loves looking through his old ticket stubs and notebooks and other ephemera he has collected and kept over the years. He started painting again in the last couple of years, after not making any visual art since he was a teenager. He has written about this before, but he thinks often, and more and more every year, about how loving and supportive his parents were and still are, having always encouraged him to seek and follow passions and all those things in life that bring him joy, which he is hesitant to say he ever took for granted but will be the first to tell you he has only become both more aware and appreciative of as he has gotten older.

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[showroomx2024]

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