I’m feeling nostalgic. Nostalgic for a time when license plates were blue…louvers were cool…turbochargers were only available on performance cars…and hood scoops were shaped like pizza boxes. Find this 1984 Nissan 200SX S12 Turbo offered for $4000 in East Bay Area, CA via craigslist. Tip from FuelTruck. From the seller: 1984 1984 Nissan Datsun S12 200SX […]
The Z31 generation Nissan/Datsun 300ZX did not get a convertible version from the factory…but there was a company in California that converted the coupe version into a ragtop for a fee back when new. This is one of the original 250 convertiblized cars that still remains on the road today, so the price is higher […]
What in the blazes is a Datsun F10? If your memories of the late 1970s are as hazy as mine (no…not haze like Cheech and Chong, more like the haze of being a little thumb sucker) then you probably don’t remember the Datsun F10 because they didn’t make many when new and most rotted into […]
By the 1978 model year the US spec Datsun Z had lost some of its original luster and it was looking bloated with big American bumpers and those heinous accordion mounting brackets. Even with a larger engine, the added safety and emission control bloat meant the car was slower and less fun to drive than […]
This post is part of DT’s 2019 Day After Epiphany celebration. Legend has it that a wise man named Melchior visited the baby Jesus from the Far East on the 13th day of Christmas and he brought with him a gift of gold to signify that Jesus was a king. I think that perhaps a gift of […]
This next car might have blended into the random menagerie of overpriced garp that is our old friend craigslist. The price is higher than you’d expect for an 80 Z and the SELLERS ALL CAPS IS NOT A GOOD SIGN…but upon closer inspection we might have found a real diamond in the rough. With only […]
Vintage muscle cars from the 1960s long ago became overpriced for the every-man and late model cars are still monstrously expensive, probably because they are well engineered, fast, and reliable…but where can I cheapskate find something that is fun and cool? Go west, young man, go west…and buy something from the malaise era. It doesn’t […]
How do you like your eggs? Fried, scrambled or poached? That is an easy question, but I think a much harder one is how do you like your vintage turbo swapped Datsun Z cars– with a Toyota 2JZ, Nissan RB20DET, or L28ET? Because you can’t have them all…you could, but I think it would be […]
The original Datsun 240Z was a nicely styled 2-seater from the land of the rising sun. It combined the basic sportiness of a unibody chassis with MacPherson struts up front and an independent coil spring (upper Chapman struts, lower wishbones) rear with a 2.4 liter inline-6 that split the difference between 4-cylinder zippiness and V8 […]
The Datsun 510 is one of those classics that needs little introduction — it combines simple Japanese styling with a rugged chassis and rock-solid Nissan 4-cylinder power…but it could use a few more cubes hood. This next one has been given some more cubes with a GM V6 swap and some more ZOOM-ZOOM with a […]