Chris:
Don't know of a list offhand to support Datsuns, but I owned several for
years before owning lbc's. I had a 240Z and, for a brief period, had a 1600
'Fairlady' convertible. Reminds me a lot of a B, really.
Simple to work on, fairly straightforward 4-beater engine. Car handles pretty
nicely, though I don't think as well as an MG. Overhead Cam design, if I
recall, similar to a lot of Datsuns of the period. Has twin carbs, similar to
SU's. Datsun, oddly enough, knocked off a lot of German performance engines
in those days; the early 240Z engine valve train is an exact (and I do mean
exact) duplicate of the Benz 2.4 litre; you can interchange parts between the
two seamlessly.
The Fairlady is a nice car, and pretty rare. If the price is good, I'd pick
it up. The only drawback is the difficulty in finding parts; as far as I
know, there's no supplier of parts similar to our Moss or Vicky B catalogues.
Datsun/Nissan itself, however, still supports many parts for the working
bits of the car, if not the glamour bits.
Luck.
ckr
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