jay520 Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 I just got done reading the book Nissan/Datsun: A History of Nissan Motor Corporation in U.S.A., 1960-1980. I found some of the tables pretty interesting. So, I thought I'd share. Hopefully, nobody will be concerned with copyright permissions. Source: Rae, John B. (1982). Nissan/Datsun: A History of Nissan Motor Corporation in U.S.A., 1960-1980. New York: McGraw Hill. Quote Link to comment
Wide14u Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 this cool Quote Link to comment
sick620 Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 right on! :cool: Quote Link to comment
merlin Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 ... or you can read my "book" ... issue number 9, 20,000 words on the 50 year history of Nissan USA http://www.nissansportmag.com/issue-9-fall-2008 and issue Number 11, the US racing history of Nissan, about 20 pages... http://www.nissansportmag.com/issue-11-spring-2009 Quote Link to comment
wayno Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 You should be working on you datsuns rather than reading this, and so should I. :lol: Quote Link to comment
merlin Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 You should be working on you datsuns rather than reading this, and so should I. :lol: :lol:no shit sherlock! I'm dedicating Jan 1 to Mach 31 as Datsun only time. Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 Those are my rims I got grom Jason!!! Quote Link to comment
jay520 Posted December 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 You should be working on you datsuns rather than reading this, and so should I. :lol: Since I'm a thousand miles away, isn't this the best use of my time? Then again, I suppose I could be scrounging around junkyards. Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted December 29, 2010 Report Share Posted December 29, 2010 Great book, you can buy on Amazon like $5 here's one with Chart added Quote Link to comment
bananahamuck Posted December 29, 2010 Report Share Posted December 29, 2010 So the books on this Amazon link would contain all of the above info?? please say yes Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted December 29, 2010 Report Share Posted December 29, 2010 The one I got from Amazon has all these charts and photos. Plus it has interesting stories in it. It's a bit light on the History compare to other books, but I like it. Quote Link to comment
bananahamuck Posted December 29, 2010 Report Share Posted December 29, 2010 Just ordered me one, Quote Link to comment
jay520 Posted December 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2010 So the books on this Amazon link would contain all of the above info?? please say yes Yes, Like ggzilla said, it doesn't cover the early history. Just NMC-USA stuff. I thought it was pretty in-depth on that part of Datsun history. Rae also spends a lot of time covering NMC-USA's growth in relation to the automotive industry, in general, during that period of time. How Detroit reacted (eventually) to Japanese manufacturers coming to the U.S., the Chicken Wars, and so on. I recommend it. Helps you appreciate all the hard work that went into Nissan coming to the U.S., when you hear how hard each individual worked to sell each Datsun, and the philosophies they espoused in regards to the actual selling of cars and trucks as only the beginning of the sale. But you already ordered one while I was typing this... I checked it out from the library, but I'm going to order it, too. And it includes a picture of the ever-elusive 420! Quote Link to comment
merlin Posted December 29, 2010 Report Share Posted December 29, 2010 I have the unpublished version of 1960-80 that was updated and corrected in 1985 for republication as 25 years of Nissan in the USA, but it never got printed. I have probably the biggest library of Datsun related Books in North America - in 02, Nissan PR was asking me for stuff because i had more than them. If you really want to know the history of Nissan and datsun, you need to read David Halberstams "the Reckoning" it tells Ford and Nissan from day 1 and reads like a novel. Quote Link to comment
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