Gordon Dobie Posted March 23, 2011 Posted March 23, 2011 Having recently discovered the VICZCAR site. I am surprised and pleased at the interest shown in the early days of the Datsun Racing Team. The secret of the success of the Datsuns of that period was their incredible reliability enabling huge increases in power and RPM. This is evident by the fact that today more than 40 years later these cars are still competitive. The basic design of the 1600 sedan and the 240/260Z was one of the best handling packages available at any price and yet the cars were incredably inexpensive. A 1600 sedan cost slightly less than $2000 and the cost of a 1000 sedan was around $1000 making them very competitive in events such as Bathurst where the classes were based on price and no modifications were permited. Unfortunately in 1970 CAMS in responce to a lobby from the V8 manufacturers (The big V8s were notoriously unreliable at racing speeds) decided to allow modifications. The result of this was that the cars ceased to be representative of the cars sold to the public. This for me and many other enthusiasts removed a lot of the interest from this form of racing, but it was great while it lasted as it truly demonstrated to the public the strengths and weaknesses of the various makes. Gordon Dobie Quote
C.A.R. Posted March 23, 2011 Posted March 23, 2011 May thanks for posting again Gordon! At your leisure, can you please continue to update this thread with more Datsun History? Quote
shanec86 Posted March 28, 2011 Posted March 28, 2011 Each week i learn at least one interesting story or fact about datsun/nissan. my workplace is a datsun/nissan brains trust. One co-worker who was with nissan for 30 years and her husband was a datsun race team mechanic. My boss also owns the #30 DR30 Gibson car Stories of the old E20 support vans, SVD & DNA Garage haha edit: spelling Quote
bluerat Posted March 28, 2011 Posted March 28, 2011 Great stuff! It's great to have you on here Gordon. So where did it all start? with the Fairlady 1500/1600's or was there a team set up to crew for the Jap team in the early Bluebird at Bathurst and did the factory have anything to do with the Jack Murrey Skyline entry at Bathurst and the R380's at Surfers Paradise? How's the Sports 2000? do you still own the beast? Cheers, Hodgo Quote
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