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Originally Posted by The_bluester
Bob, I reckon that would be maybe a 77 not a 67 I used to have the car below, a 71 240C coupe (P230 series) which was the body shape before that one of yours (The P330) In typical Nissan/Datsun style there was also a 260C with the L26 engine put in the P230 body, and I believe there was also a P330 280C with the L28 in the car you have, before the 1980s brick shaped 280C came along. I really wish I still had the 240C, it was a very cool car being a pillarless hardtop (Though it had the body rigidity of a bowl of custard) and now worth silly money as they are so rare. Any that come up normally sell for telephone number money and get shipped back to Japan! Rubbish angle photo taken in the late 80's and literally the only photo of the car that I have, you would reckon on a car that I liked, I would have taken more photos of it. My dad rebuilt it in 86 having bought it from the wreckers after a crash, and I have seen three others in all that time. They only bought in about 120 of these back in 71. I bought it from my parents and sold it back to them too, for the red Z car in the second pic, which I also really wish I still had. The blue one was the insane compression ratio car.
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Interesting and all coming back to me now you mention Paul, and yes '77 sounds right, I remember either the transport department or a RWC mech mentioned I could register as a 'Classic nearing its 25ys of age at the time. Was also a tad excited when it would reach 30ys and rego as a Vintage, but apparently they ceased allowing 30y old cars becoming a Vintage if made after 1975,, i think, something like that..
Funny you mention your 240C having 'body-roll, my 260C was as bad I reckon, I replaced the rear springs with a 'Hardened bottom leaf, that with the wide 225 deep-dish rims and lowered front 205's helped somewhat and mitigated the slight oversteer it suffered aswell.
My son had the 280C for about 6months, he wrote-off 6 cars in 5yrs of getting his licence, I dont think hes mine, Lol
I was thinking of chasing up a Z model but I ended up back on a Bike, being a 2000 Kwaka ZZR 1100, still got it, it's a bullet with the 'Ram-Air' feature.
I may have some 260C restore pics on a hardrive somewhere if I got nothing better to do one day.
Oh, I got the missus a 180b SSS Coupe back in the early '90's, Twin T-U carbs but was an Auto and engine a little tired but did the job.
I remember back in the early 80's when bying my 1st cars looking the Paper, Classified section and there were definately more Nisan-Datsun cars in there than any other vehicle at the time, popular and plenty of em because the average australian didnt want a big holden, ford, chrysler etc
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