best ever site contender?

[reallyloud]

Japanese scrap yards from the seventies:

cys02663.hp.infoseek.co.jp/historic%20car%20salon/historic.htm

[DarrenW]

A SUPERB find!

What's this?

How cool are those intakes?

[DarrenW]

Wossat?


Or this:

[reallyloud]

Ok...here goes:

The top van is a Prince, a company Nissan took and absorbed in 1965. Prince made the best looking cars, for example the C110 skyline and that neat C130 Laurel coupe in Rmad thread were designed as Princes. Prince are credited for the original Skyline, Nissan took over the name and capatalised on the pedigree which even back then was respected. I think this van is from the early sixties.

The second car is a first generation (circa '67) Corolla, they did bring them here, for a short time in the late sixties.

And the final piccy is a Datsun Cherry Van! (look closely and you'll see the Cherry badge) The chassis, drivetrain and some fitting came from the MK1 100A. Sold only in Japan but this would have made a neat competitor to the various Fiat, Honda and Daihatsu mini vans at the time. Datsun brought one over to the UK for evaluation and it might still lurk somewhere....

[Thrasher]

What about this !?

[reallyloud]

Datsun Laurel C130! sweeeet.....