6 Comentarios

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   lieutenant_pigeon · 2020-04-28 12:28

   My Uncle Les used to have one of these; loved it to pieces.

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   lizkoppert · 2020-04-28 21:27

   @lieutenant_pigeon, he had taste. I wouldn't say no to one. Almost ended up with a Triumph Toledo once. The gearbox needing work put me off and I ended up with a Datsun 120Y. The adventures that me and that 120Y had... still miss the little tacker!

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   lieutenant_pigeon · 2020-04-29 09:01

   My Grandad had a Datsun 120Y in Celeste if my memory serves, kept it until it fell to bits, which they tended to do in Britain

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   lizkoppert · 2020-04-29 11:14

   @lieutenant_pigeon, that would be right... I heard in the Pacific Islands, the bodies tended to rust out around them. Having seen some gnarly crap that those Nissans/Datsuns could take and still function makes me wonder what they did to those engines.

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   lieutenant_pigeon · 2020-04-29 12:09

   I dunno, the Japanese make some brilliant engines but they don't seem to be much good at making steel or interiors. Car interiors definitely not their thing.

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   lizkoppert · 2020-04-30 04:42

   I tend to disagree. Having had a Datsun 180B and a 1750cc Austin Maxi "living" here at the same time, I can assure you which one had the better interior and it wasn't the Datsun (which by the way was a Japanese import). And the Nissan Widetrack (a two-litre job from 1987 -- about the same age as a Ford Sierra I knew) was even better trimmed out than the 180B (but then that one was a New Zealand new ZX model). As for that Ford Sierra -- the trim in that wasn't as good as the 180B either... and it was about 10 years newer. I remember when I wrote off my 120Y, one of the people that helped me get it unstuck from the culvert said someone had come to grief in the same place previously in a late 80's/early 90s model Mazda. If I remember correctly, the lass ended up in hospital, the car got towed and the driver's mirror was still on the side of the gravel road. After the flying lesson that ended in the culvert, that 120Y still managed to get me the 13km home... Wouldn't have been able to do that in the Austin Maxi (that thing rattled and flexed as you drove along the road sometimes).