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Re: re Silvia for sale in the US

To: brook.phillip@a2.abc.net.au, datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: re Silvia for sale in the US
From: "Dan Zubkoff" <datsun65@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:30:55 PDT
>Is it a left hand drive car?

Nope...Is right hand drive.

Dan Zubkoff
1965 SPL310-10927D


>From: Phill Brook <brook.phillip@a2.abc.net.au>
>Reply-To: Phill Brook <brook.phillip@a2.abc.net.au>
>To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
>Subject: re Silvia for sale in the US
>Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 19:25:37 +1000
>
>If anyone is making further enquiries about this Silvia for sale I have
>one very important question:
>
>Is it a left hand drive car?
>
>If the answer is yes, then it is the rarest of the rare. Only one was
>made (as a prototype). I can't trace that particular car. I know that
>Albrecht Goertz took a Silvia to New York and I believe that this was
>also the car that Bob Sharp evaluated for Nissan USA. Unfortunately
>neither Sharp or Goertz can remember if this particular car was left or
>right hand drive nor can they remeber what became of the car other than
>it was displayed at a few motor shows.
>
>I know that a handful of Silvias were taken back to the US by servicemen
>who had been serving in Japan (same situation as most of the RHD
>roadsters in th US).
>
>Of course, Nissan could have crushed the LHD prototype as they did with
>other prototypes but I'm living in hope and dying to find out what
>really happened to that LHD Silvia.
>
>Phill Brook
>



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