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Datsun SRL/SPL … Estate???
Posted: Mon May 30, 2022 6:28 pm
by Bwk2000
Came across these pics, definitely something I’ve never seen before. Was this ever done for any market?
Forgive the image quality, but this is how I found them.
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Re: Datsun SRL/SPL … Estate???
Posted: Mon May 30, 2022 6:40 pm
by notoptoy
Blasphemy I know, but I like it!
Re: Datsun SRL/SPL … Estate???
Posted: Mon May 30, 2022 6:54 pm
by jr02518
How would you say "shooting-brake" in Japanese?
Re: Datsun SRL/SPL … Estate???
Posted: Mon May 30, 2022 8:46 pm
by MattC
Good thing that “sunroof†is there because I would never fit in it otherwise. Appears to have a couple inches added in the middle to fit that second row of seats.
Re: Datsun SRL/SPL … Estate???
Posted: Mon May 30, 2022 9:11 pm
by redroadster
One of the biggest sales of import model was a MG sort of wagon like that in 70-71
Can't remember it's model name right off
MGB-GT
There was a early 1950s Ferrari that had a similar look
Re: Datsun SRL/SPL … Estate???
Posted: Mon May 30, 2022 9:22 pm
by jr02518
I might have first hand experience in a 1999 originally built as a "one Lap of America car" at Buttonwillow in CA. Yes, that is a Tesla and a Corvette behind me. No, they did not get past me on the front straight. Driving in a supercharged S-52 will leave you with a perpetual smile.
Re: Datsun SRL/SPL … Estate???
Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 4:47 pm
by FergO2k
What about the "landau" version, where the elite ride in back, separated by a partition?
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Re: Datsun SRL/SPL … Estate???
Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 5:11 pm
by Bwk2000
FergO2k wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 4:47 pm
What about the "landau" version, where the elite ride in back, separated by a partition?
Lol … Same as a Duesenberg Town Car really.
Re: Datsun SRL/SPL … Estate???
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:32 am
by GeoffM
jr02518 wrote: Mon May 30, 2022 9:22 pm
I might have first hand experience in a 1999 originally built as a "one Lap of America car" at Buttonwillow in CA. Yes, that is a Tesla and a Corvette behind me. No, they did not get past me on the front straight. Driving in a supercharged S-52 will leave you with a perpetual smile.
A clownshoe with a supercharged S-52?? That must have been a blast!
Re: Datsun SRL/SPL … Estate???
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 3:01 pm
by funkaholik
Clownshoe!
Love it. MUCH kinder and more PC than the name my brother and I called them. Great driver's cars, just fugly IMO.
Sorry to get off the original topic. A 4 seat, 311 wagon? No thank you. Not for me.
Re: Datsun SRL/SPL … Estate???
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:45 pm
by theunz
I love a sporty looking stagecoach as much as anyone, but that abomination ain’t even in the game.
Re: Datsun SRL/SPL … Estate???
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 10:45 am
by Bwk2000
theunz wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:45 pm
I love a sporty looking stagecoach as much as anyone, but that abomination ain’t even in the game.
I don’t know … They’re kind of growing on me
Would have been much more practical back in the day.
