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Re: Roadster styling (was originality thread)

To: sidney raper <spl310@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Roadster styling (was originality thread)
From: Russell Southwell <rulee@cityscape.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:43:46 -0600
Sid there is a picture on Mark Dents site, doesn't show the back or grill, gotta
make a web site one of these days, lots of go fast bomb haulers from Nam.and big
boat pictures taken over 20 years.
I put my truck in the shop last month (Hit a deer) before they called to say it
was done, my son called to say he hit one with my Van. so I had to drive my
roadster
to the riverbottoms to go deer hunting. Revenge!! got a 160 lb doe first season.

Waiting for Jan 18th for pistol season.
Russ Southwell 70 1600, 4 dead 2L 1 truc and van with new front ends.

sidney raper wrote:

> Got any pictures posted?  That sounds unusual.
>
> Sid
>
> >From: Russell Southwell <rulee@cityscape.net>
> >Reply-To: Russell Southwell <rulee@cityscape.net>
> >To: Gordon Glasgow <gsglasgow@attbi.com>
> >CC: roadster List <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> >Subject: Re: Roadster styling (was originality thread)
> >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:49:22 -0600
> >
> >Miine is still painted black, as is the grill, and 1 1/2" stripe arond the
> >bottom
> >edge
> >from front to back including wheelwell arches(PO)
> >Russ Southwell 70 1600 sora blue and black
> >Gordon Glasgow wrote:
> >
> > > If you look at Hidehiro IIzuka's early stying sketches as reproduced in
> >Phill
> > > Brook's (excellent) book, it appears that the tailights and relatively
> >flat rear
> > > panel were part of the design from the very beginning. I think the
> >taillights
> > > have a rather jet-exhaust look, which was quite common in that era.
> > >
> > > Of course, the panel isn't completely flat but rather has some
> >interesting
> > > contours, which I'm sure has caused no end of grief to
> >less-than-knowledgeable
> > > body men.
> > >
> > > By 1969 Triumph had picked up the flat rear panel idea in the
> >Michelotti/Karmann
> > > designed TR6, which I always thought looked great. In fact, at one time
> >I
> > > painted the rear panel on my roadster flat black like the Triumph
> >(partly to
> > > hide corrosion).
> > >
> > > Gordon Glasgow
> > > Renton, WA
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> > > > [mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of snyler
> > > > Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 5:08 PM
> > > > To: Mark Sedlack; roadster List
> > > > Subject: Roadster styling (was originality thread)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Mark Sedlack wrote
> > > >
> > > > >However, I personally have never liked the "flat" rear-end panel on
> >the
> > > > >Roadster, and have always suspected it was due primarily to ease of
> > > > >manufacture, rather than a planned styling detail.
> > > > I've wondered about the back recently myself.  Perhaps it's a cost
> >thing,
> > > > perhaps the roadster was ahead of its time, anticipating the Kamm-back
> > > > styling of the late 60s.  I used to think the taillights were stuck
> > > > on...items pulled from the Nissan parts bin, but they're unique to the
> > > > roadster.  If they'd used Bluebird  (311) taillights of the era (which
> > > > look like they might fit)  there'd be much more of an MGB resemblance.
> >  I
> > > > know the Roadster had its debut a year earlier, but it's hard enough
> >to
> > > > convince folks of the order of appearance as it is.
> > > > -Marc T.
> > > >
> > > >
> >==========================================================================
> > > > Marc Tyler TDROC Sisterdale TX
> > > > 1970 1600 #SPL311-31016
> > > > 1965 L-320 #L320 013642
> > > > http://datsun_marc.tripod.com/cgi-bin/datsun_homepage.html
> > > >
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