We Produced With Spartan Air

[e_racer1999]

i just got some R32 skyline gts-t rims to put on my I30 and it has this inscription on the center caps. i don't get it!

[nwcubsman]

Can't say what it means, but Spartan is a maker of dust collection systems. But who would credit the dust collectors on a retail product? Not me!

[e_racer1999]

haha, ya, i dunno. maybe it has something to do with the battle of thermopylae (sp)?

[hls30.com]

A set of caps that were air filter plugs in their first life and found to fit the wheels perhapse?

Will

[beandip]

Bungs from a waist barrel ! I don't have a clue. couldent resist .

[geezer]

I've got a "waist barrel" but my bung doesn't look like that.

[hls30.com]

EEEWWWW, a Proctological drama unfolds, and is still somewhat thread pertinant! Wow Zs are intertwined in life!

WIll

[rtaylor]

There currently is a set of wheels for sale on Yahoo Japan with these same mysterious words.

In a search of the internet I found an article re 1985/6 Cedric as follows:

Both sets of wheels are non-standard, the Cedric’s borrowing a pair originally off an early 90’s Skyline. The badges on the Nissan’s wheels contain the curious inscription “We produced with Spartan air!”. This phrase leaves many folk bemused and puzzled. When in Hong Kong in around 1993 every single low-spec Crown taxi had personalised their car with after-market alloy wheels (along with ‘Turbo’ Crown column change gear knobs), and this Crown is no exception with Japanese market (pitted) chrome wire-wheels, which will look OK when cleaned up a bit.

Now, it is all cleared up!

[e_racer1999]

^that's the only thing i found that mentioned it as well

[FREE-Z]

man weird! is this one of those lost in tranlation things?. as in wick humbles resto book "how to restore your z car" page 19 on the "Datsunisms and nissyntax" he quotes some stuff similar to this. i looked up the words seperately on dictionary.com and got this:

Spar•tan ˈspɑr tn - Show Spelled Pronunciation[spahr-tn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–adjective

1. Also, Spar•tan•ic spɑrˈtæn ɪk - Show Spelled Pronunciation[spahr-tan-ik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. of or pertaining to Sparta or its people.

2. suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere.

3. brave; undaunted.

air

the general character or complexion of anything; appearance: His early work had an air of freshness and originality

i know its a stetch here but i was thinking "we made these wheels with air of undaunted discipline." or something like that. funny stuff!

[FREE-Z]

sorry i forgot the word "an air of undaunted discipline" how about simply "made with discipline"

really, who cares those are sweet looking rims and are also a great conversation peice!

[FREE-Z]

just wanted to add a little side thought here. how about "these rims are hot sh*#t!" really though i know many E.S.L(English second language) students who stuggle with all our synonyms, slang and crazy figures of speech. imagine translating from a language where a single character can mean a whole phrase or idea, into our wacky, exceptionss to the rules, multiple meaning, speaking style. i think this is why i, myself, cant splell for sh*#t! I recently found a kids boxing toy at the market called "pugilism king" how many 5 year olds know what pugilism is? also just to be clear here, to quote Humbles insert' "just so that no reader will take these observations to mean your author has elitist notions, let me reiterate my admeration to for both the datsun z-car and its designers, engineers and corporate people."