After seeing the fine pix from Shasta and visiting the Solvang gathering for
the second time, I am amazed that there is almost nothing that one can do to
a Datsun that someone hasn't done already, or will do soon thereafter,
without copying.
For an extreme example, in the late 1969 I parked at a naval yard in the SF
Bay Area in my 1966 which by then was painted burgundy with a flat black hood
and a wood veneer dash. Weirdly, parked in the same lot was another low
windshield, burgundy, flat black hood with wood veneer dash Datsun 1600 in a
bit rougher shape. Never saw it again.
More recently, some of you have seen my now red car with a beige interior and
red painted dash. At Solvang 1999 I saw my first ever (other than mine)
beige interior (beautifully done), and at Shasta this year I just saw a pix
of another 1966 with a red painted dash.
There must be a french expression for this.
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