Early Datsun Fairlady

[JPSmit]

this is really pretty. A little bit Karmann Ghia in the back, a little bit cartoon car in the front, but very pleasing. Never seen one like it before.
1960 Fairlady

 

[aeronca65t]

That is cool. I was expecting the more square (newer-style) Fairlady roadster.

Never saw one of these before.

 

[JPSmit]

I must say that i continue to be amazed how regularly i see a car i have never seen before whilst cruising the interweb. Like you i was expecting the square body - no ides they made them that far back but it is so cool to see new stuff!

 

[Banjo]

Windscreen and steering wheel lifted almost directly from an Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite.
Nice little car. I like it.

 

[TRMark]

It is a little cartoonish (watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit last night) but a cute little car. I am very surprised it still exists, I worked at a Datsun dealership in the late 60's, some of the cars were showing some rust signs on the dealership floor.

 

[JPSmit]

It is a little cartoonish (watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit last night) but a cute little car. I am very surprised it still exists, I worked at a Datsun dealership in the late 60's, some of the cars were showing some rust signs on the dealership floor.

as my friend Larry describes my Fiat - they rust in the brochure!

 

[AngliaGT]

Kind of like the discription of a Porsche -
"You can go out to the garage,turn off the lights,
& hear it rust".

- Doug

 

[billspohn]

Some of that styling reminds me of a Swallow Doretti I once owned.

 

[JPSmit]

Beautiful! And it in turn bridges to a Big Healey

 

[billspohn]

Thinking about it, the Japanese mechanicals and styling were very far behind current British in the 1960s. I wonder if this car might not have been an inspiration for the Datsun, given the reliance and long association Datsun had with BMC designs and engines.

 

[PAUL161]

I had a hard top for a Fair Lady which I bought by mistake! Sold it to a guy in Ontario two years ago. So theirs one up there, or there was anyway. PJ