How sad is this!!!

[Nissanman]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Datsun-Fairl ... 1a00061886

[JohnnyMac]

Yikes! Are you familiar with the car or owner?

[Toptech360]

Yikes! thats a mangled mess. dont even want to know the back story...

I notice its listed as a 64? I see some details that say its not? I.e. battery under hood And trunk hinges are different.

[mraitch]

Hope passenger and driver fared better than the car. A shame indeed.

[Datsun.David]

That had to be one especially big kangaroo...

[mraitch]

Or a bunch of very determined wombats.

[rudesvx]

Being a right hand drive, looks like the steering wheel and shaft went into the driver's head area? Could this have been prevented by swapping with a collapsable shaft from a later model?

[mraitch]

from the earlier photo seems to be some windshield impact.

[fj20spl311]

Being a right hand drive, looks like the steering wheel and shaft went into the driver's head area? Could this have been prevented by swapping with a collapsable shaft from a later model?

It looks like the intrusion was minimal because the impact was on the left side.

I hope everyone in this car fared well. It actually looks like the car held up considering the impact. Looks to have hit something pretty solid.

A collapsible column might have helped, also just adding a u-joint and kink in the stock column would have helped.

[Nissanman]

I don't know of the car or the fate of the driver etc.
I sincerely hope they are OK.

Quite a severe collision.

[Down under 311]

Yes I was wondering who too - needless to say one less car for nationals this year - hopefully not one less driver ... In relation to steering column though I think that was due to the car being stripped of some parts or dash etc so don't think it was a lethal issue !

[sports imports]

In New Zealand, they would fix that car!!

Ross
sports imports