Spot The Datsun In Mid 80's Melbourne.

[gav240z]

Hey Guys,

Someone posted a link to these photos on Facebook and I was going through and enjoying seeing some of the classic cars parked in the streets of Melbourne.

 

Full album here. (Multiple Pages)

Finally found a 260z 2+2 in someone's driveway.
Shields St 057 Flemington-Kensington sheet 06 08 by Graeme Butler, on Flickr

[Hokin]

Nice to go back in time and enjoy the old days (really starting to sound old now). Spotted a few 1600's in there also

[luvemfast]

What I love is clearly how life was a lot simpler back then.

You can tell just by the presentation of just about everything!

[gav240z]

What I love is clearly how life was a lot simpler back then.

You can tell just by the presentation of just about everything!

I know what you mean, I also thought it was interesting to see just how many old Mazda's there were, in some cases the piston derivative but also quite a few old rotaries parked on streets and in people's driveways.

 

The sort of cars that wouldn't be left out now, for fear of being stolen.

 

A lot of old Datsun's on the road also and a few Toyota's for sure.

 

What I find interesting is the way that certain cars just quietly vanish from our roads and nobody really notices until they see 1 on the road again.

 

There was 1 in car in there I just couldn't place. I suspect it was an Austin Marina GT.

 

I wonder how many of the cars in those photos are still around today!

[gav240z]

Here is a glimpse of a Honda S600 coupe.

 

Victoria St 091 Flemington-Kensington 1984 sheet 59 19 by Graeme Butler, on Flickr

[GTI-Z]

Found another Z !  Don't think much of the hubcaps - could be from a 200B.

 

Wellington St 030-032 Flemington-Kensington 1984 sheet 06 30  by Graeme Butler, on Flickr

[gav240z]

haha, nice find. They do indeed look like 200B caps. It could be because the original S30Z ones were actually quite expensive. I recall talking to someone here who told me back in the day they were the equivalent of 1 weeks wages for a single cap. So if 1 went missing you probably found the next best thing.

 

I'm going to guess it was a 74 260z because early 260z's tended to come with steel wheels and caps and later ones were almost always fitted with the 260z alloys (part no. 40300-N3200) we see so often.

[GTI-Z]

I remember when I bought my first Z (a 260) back in 1982.  It was a 1974 model (chassis ~ 926 I think or close to it) and I replaced the steelies with a set of late model 280ZX 6 spoke wheels.  If I had bought the wheel nuts from Nissan it would have cost about $110 on top of the cost of the wheels.

 

Quite a bit of money back then for a 2nd year apprentice !

[gav240z]

Worth bumping this up again.

This time some Blue Mountains photos.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue_mountains_library_-_local_studies/with/36634177234/

 

I think many of the photos in this slideshow I posted here come from these.

http://www.viczcar.com/forum/topic/14535-off-topic-youtube-thread/?p=204495