Can you identify this model...

[xRIEx]

TooMany2cvs said:

clio007 said:

The current tax disc on the car which is older than me

Why is the issued date stamp April 1979...?
Even if it was 1980, the car was only registered in Sept.

Post office clerk(s) had probably forgotten to move the year on the stamp - they struggle with new-fangled technology.

[JimbobVFR]

kambites said:

You're going to have a problem now because once you've got used to having the indicators on the right side on a RHD car, the left feels wrong forever more.

This. I'm just about to go back to a vehicle with them the right way round. Makes so much more sense than the cheap way it's done nowadays.

[JimbobVFR]

xRIEx said:

TooMany2cvs said:

clio007 said:

The current tax disc on the car which is older than me

Why is the issued date stamp April 1979...?
Even if it was 1980, the car was only registered in Sept.

Post office clerk(s) had probably forgotten to move the year on the stamp - they struggle with new-fangled technology.

Is it a real one. I know sone places sell replicas for old cars so it might not be genuine.

[Mr Snrub]

That is brilliant. Lots of helpful info here

http://datsunclubuk.proboards.com/index.cgi

[Inny]

This has made me quite emotional. A blue one of these is the first car I remember our family having. My dad is long since gone but my car memory starts here.

He traded it in for a red square light version which 5 doors and a rear wash wipe. These items qualified it as a massive upgrade.

Thanks for sharing OP. I wish you all the best with it, don't think you've been ripped off, and if you want to sell it come back to this thread and PM me.

[750turbo]

I served my (Parts) apprenticeship in Datsun Dealer when these were being produced, I still have some kind of Anal Knowledge of these, especially after a few beers...

The bloodline was: E10 --> F10 --> N10 --> N12. They were all bloody reliable, but even the coupe was not "quick" of the mark.

My first Company Car (I was Parts Manager when I was 20) was reg no XGE 127W, and was the same as the OP's.

No idea why I remember all this, well yes I do, today has been particularly though provoking, in a very personal way.



Hope you enjoy it OP.