Hi Dick Great to hear from you and thanks for the knowledgeable frame stuff. As far as I know anything lightweight (frames OR panels) only started in 1968. Jack Scoville says about the lightweight fr
An interesting journey home today, thankfully not in the roadster. An idiot in his lovely (now not so lovely) Cobra kit car thought he'd show me what he (and it) could do coming off a roundabout - w
Regarding Marc's comments, it looks Jack's was a 67.5. Take a look at: www.datsun.org/fairlady/Daytona-tent.jpg It shows SRL-00004 and the lightweight, both low windshield 2000s. Rob
My 2 cents. I am certain that there were factory lightweights - Dick Roberts was really fussy about who he passed things too - BRE was originally an outfit backed by Nissan Tokyo, not Nissan USA, an
Hi Thomas Coincidentally, I heard of a Z-432 engine stored over here for many years last month. Planning to take a look (and, who knows, make an offer?) next month. Heard a rumour that the only 1967
Hi all Just received a sircam computer worm virus from Manabu Goshima, a Japanese Roadster enthusiast some of you may know - the worm has a 'doc.pif' file extension. The message always starts. "Hi! H
Hi Dennis < John Morton in the #46 510 > However nice the BRE 510 is and however nice it sounds, I prefer the #14 car myself www.datsun.org/fairlady/14cockpit1.jpg Rob
Hi all Latest web update shows some excellent colo(u)r pics from ex-racer Jim Kellar of Bob Hindson's 67.5 2000 race car. Bob went on to do great things with Porsche. Anyone know where his 2000 is no
I don't know how many of you in the US have mobile phones that you can change the background image on but there are a series of roadster related pics on URL: http://k.excite.co.jp/hp/u/sroc/ The Jap
This month's pic is a cool Nissan Press Photo of Dan Parkinson in a Datsun Racing Team 1600 at a Californian Enduro in 1967. For Empi fans the pic is a treat. www.datsun.org/fairlady/intro.htm (and
Reading about all you guys who commit the travesty of turbocharging a stock U-20 motor, or swapping the U-20 for some late turbo'd monster, I've found a more useful purpose for a turbo, as follows:
Received this plea for help from a damsel in distress - is there anyone in the Kansas area or anyone who has any top clamps? Or can you vendors get on the case? Christine's e-mail address is: YorkC@
The S500 is a super rare car - they go for a mint in Japan. We only got the S800 over here - beautifully put together and they rev to something like 11,000rpm. Rob
Thanks Mike Great pics and nice to see Nissan recognising its motorsports roots - now if they went back a couple of years further that would be even better. Rob