Drummerboy4as Posted May 7, 2012 Report Share Posted May 7, 2012 Don't know if this has been posted before, but I just found it and thought I'd share :D 14 Quote Link to comment
metalmonkey47 Posted May 7, 2012 Report Share Posted May 7, 2012 ╔══╗ ╚╗╔╝ ╔╝(¯`v´¯) ╚══`.¸. Datsuns Quote Link to comment
paradoxx Posted May 7, 2012 Report Share Posted May 7, 2012 one of each please! Quote Link to comment
510_Dillon Posted May 7, 2012 Report Share Posted May 7, 2012 that would be a cool poster! Quote Link to comment
DRIVEN Posted May 7, 2012 Report Share Posted May 7, 2012 I'm pretty sure I've owned each of the cars on the lower level at one point. Must have been late 1972? I agree, it'd be a cool poster. Quote Link to comment
pharouh Posted May 7, 2012 Report Share Posted May 7, 2012 Now I have to clean the drool from my keyboard. I'll take the 620 on the front. Quote Link to comment
Steroid Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 There are two other awesome photos similar to post # 1. One I found long ago on a railfan website. It is a pic of a Santa Fe freight train eastbound in San Bernardino, CA with two auto carrier cars full of 620s photographed April 9, 1974. This train originated in Long Beach and is traveling to Barstow where those two cars will be switched out and placed on other trains for their final destination to the dealer. Many Datsuns were delivered this way. Timeless photo ! Also, the reason late 620s were built with the gastank mounted to the frame is that the beds were shipped seperately. Toyota did the same thing: The other pic is the aerial port shot with almost 1000 620s sitting after being unloaded off a boat. None of the trucks have their beds installed and are as delivered from Japan. Who owns this original photo? http://community.ratsun.net/topic/17309-a-classic-620-view/?hl=dock&do=findComment&comment=236699 Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 1973. The last photo was just last year... Quote Link to comment
Z chopper Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 now if the car hauler in the first pic was a Nissan or Datsun that would raise the cool factor Quote Link to comment
Eagle_Adam Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 :thumbup: :thumbup: :frantics: - so much win in one thread!!!! Quote Link to comment
BEEBANI Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Don't know if anybody else noticed the name of that boat seems very similiar to the whaling vessell seen on whale wars...wonder if it's the same boat? Quote Link to comment
Drummerboy4as Posted May 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Maru at the end of a Japanese vessel means "power". It's actually quite common Quote Link to comment
erichwaslike Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 these are a lil more my style...mhmmmm 411s Quote Link to comment
ggzilla Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 1970 - Datsun Maru Then: 1972 - Yama plant Now: Yama 'museum' ex-factory Quote Link to comment
pharouh Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Love assembly line pics! Anyone have 620 assembly line pictures? Quote Link to comment
K_trip Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 :thumbup: :thumbup: :frantics: - so much win in one thread!!!! +1 ... okay that's the S.F. Golden Gate, and maybe sometime in the mid 1960's? 1 Quote Link to comment
Steroid Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 That is such an interesting photo. Possibly an earlier truck. No side plastic vent cutouts. Notice that the upper core support is straight, not dipping forward like a fan clutch truck would have. Also interesting is that as though it is a LHD truck, there appear to be no holes in the windshield post for a radio antenna. Wouldn't that be something if from the factory they just applied clear over the virgin sheetmetal ! ! ! Quote Link to comment
86 720 Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 These were our club out here in Phoenix. Quote Link to comment
Yurikaze Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 Kind of amazing to see only one Z in all the pictures, but of the Datsuns that have survived, Z's seem to make up about 90% of them. Quote Link to comment
erichwaslike Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 +1 ... okay that's the S.F. Golden Gate, and maybe sometime in the mid 1960's? it will be 67, the 520 has small lights so its a 68 and down truck, and the blue 411 you can see a sss emblem on the rear pillar. those are 67 only. judging by the nice weather in sf if you went back to the news from then you could prolly pinpoint the month it was taken since they have fog and rain the rest of the year cept one month lol Quote Link to comment
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