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Back in 70s, Datsun 510 (I liked the station wagon version) and the Datsun 620 pickup were two really nice compact vehicles. I especially liked the 620 pickup. Last year or two that 620 sold was only ones offering disc brakes. You really wanted one with disc brakes, lot older ones got upgraded since parts needed were bolt on. I wish somebody still offered something similar. Now we just get luxury barge SUV pickups. The modern so called compacts weigh as much as older full size V8 pickups. Modern pickup is SUV with lidless steamer trunk bolted on back. Not a useful pickup at all.
How do you go from Datsun B210 to this land yacht?
Crush on Ricardo Montalban? Probably just got it really cheap. Chrysler had to offer deep discounts to move their cars in late 70s. Unless you needed to do long commutes for mediocre job, gas mileage wasnt as important as some thought. You could get used big old cars then for pennies on dollar that had low miles and ran real nice. It was the small cars that brought a premium price.
Crush on Ricardo Montalban? Probably just got it really cheap. Chrysler had to offer deep discounts to move their cars in late 70s. Unless you needed to do long commutes for mediocre job, gas mileage wasnt as important as some thought. You could get used big old cars then for pennies on dollar that had low miles and ran real nice. It was the small cars that brought a premium price.
Yep, she crushed on him. It was a great commercial for a garbage product. Her brother-in-law was head mechanic at the local Dodge dealership so she thought she needed to buy a Dodge/Chrysler product for him to work on it. Last MOPAR vehicle he bought was a Road Runner. She never made the connection.
Coupe or hatchback? My folks also had a B210 coupe. Mom replaced it with a 78 Chrysler Córdoba, no it did not have rich Corinthian leather. Did have a HUGE V8. How do you go from Datsun B210 to this land yacht?
It was the coupe, hatchback would have been more functional.
Now get this! After the B-210 she bought her brothers 1974 Thunderbird, can't get more opposite than that. The car was a land yacht, 460 cubic inch engine and a hood you could play 1/2 court basketball on. I drove it a few times, I swear I could see the gas gauge drop every time my 17 year old foot would punch the accelerator. Literally, the gas mileage was 11 highway, 8 city.
It was the coupe, hatchback would have been more functional.
Now get this! After the B-210 she bought her brothers 1974 Thunderbird, can't get more opposite than that. The car was a land yacht, 460 cubic inch engine and a hood you could play 1/2 court basketball on. I drove it a few times, I swear I could see the gas gauge drop every time my 17 year old foot would punch the accelerator. Literally, the gas mileage was 11 highway, 8 city.
It’s amazing that a car as slow as the B210 could look sporty as a hatchback. The 200SX of that era had a love it or hate it look. It stood out because nothing on the road resembled it in any way. Knew a girl in high school who had one when she got her learners permit. She totaled it before getting her license just backing out the driveway. I still tease her about that on Facebook. Though slow, those early Datsun’s were fun to drive hard. My cousin went off roading (hunting and fishing) in his Datsun truck. It rattled and squeaked but never broke down.
We had a 1972 Datsun 1200, the predecessor of the B210. There were some scary features of that car, including the way it would speed up like crazy and the only way to stop it was to turn the engine off. I got so I could shift out of gear, turn the engine off, and start it again without stopping or hardly slowing down.
I don't think we ever found out what the problem was.
One year my wife and I drove it from New Jersey to Ann Arbor with my brother's string bass in the back seat. You wouldn't think it would fit, but it did.
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