Originally posted by ChrisA

Oh Yeah!! B double E double R u n, BEERRUN!!!

Say it real fast.

Bob & Tom fan?

yeah i know its not realy a zLOL i cant stand the zx very much imo its dog ugly:sick: .see what reading sport z will get you?

useless trivia!

what was the factory collour of the first shipment of 240zs to the usa?

By 1933 Datsun had become a division of Tobata Imono foundry. How did the Nissan name come to be?

Vicky

I don't know if this really gives the answer but quouting "Petersens Complete Book of Datsun":

"In 1933 the Datsun company went through a reorganization which gave it the present name of Nissan Motors Corp., and the name Datsun was still used for the cars. Since then the light cars and trucks have almost all been called Datsuns, and the name Nissan has been applied to heavy trucks and other commercial vehicles as well as to the parent company."

Maybe that's whey mosts ZX's are called Nissans~ ROFL

Originally posted by Zrush

By 1933 Datsun had become a division of Tobata Imono foundry. How did the Nissan name come to be?

Vicky

Answer:

The Tobata Imono foundry was funded by Nihon Sagyo, a company known to stockbrokers as "Ni-San". In 1934, the new Nissan Motor Company Limited produced commercial vehicles and small cars and trucks called Datsuns.

Vicky

thats cool ive read so many different stories on why they called them datsun and nissan i do realy think their is a totally true way of stating the reason .

in how many places were their serial numbers and id numbers on hls30 cars? and were are they at on the car?

in the beginning the company was simply cally "DAT." Then to Datsun, then Nissan

Why "DAT?"

Originally posted by TomoHawk

in the beginning the company was simply cally "DAT." Then to Datsun, then Nissan

Why "DAT?"

An acronym representing the 3 main investors. They reorganized in 1930, forming "Datson", "Son of DAT". O was changed to U in 1933.

Vicky

Mr K wanted to use racing to promote Datsun cars. What was the first year Datsun ran a race AND what was the name of that race?

Vicky

Their names were Kenjiro Den, Rokuro Aoyama, and Metaro Tekeuchi. D, A, and T. The 'son' was changed to 'sun' because 'son' means "loss" or "unfavorable occurence" in Japaneese. They are rumored to have changed the name after the typhoon in 1933.

Excellent. that's what I call some good trivia. It even has to doiwith Z cars.

Why did they use the "Z"?

Originally posted by TomoHawk

Excellent. that's what I call some good trivia. It even has to doiwith Z cars.

Why did they use the "Z"?

There is no Z in the Japanese alphabet. I read somewhere that they wanted something unique. They chose "Z" because "nothing comes after Z in the english alphabet". I'm not sure if this is correct, but I did read this somewhere. Am I right?

Vicky