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[kats]

Yesterday I visited a used car dealer just 5 minutes drive from my house, I saw a Silvia which used to be in a museum next to my car . I really love this car , I sat in the driver’s seat , I felt the taste is very similar to Dino 246 , this is old fashioned but very beautiful . A small interior space and looks , and much better quality than S30 , just gorgeous! 

I tried to find things which are carried over to our S30 cars , yes I found some .

Ian , you will love this car .

Kats

[Patcon]

Pretty car!

[w3wilkes]

Reminds me of a BMW 633CSi. Very nice!

[RIP260Z]

Very, very nice Kats, any Silvia (csp311 only) I love to see.

It is a pity it is missing a few things, grab handles above door, sunvisors, and has Bluebird 410/411 hubcaps. But still lovely.

Hopefully, the restoration of my one will be to a very high standard (it is so far with the length I am going to..)

For those who are interested, this website is rather good for the design/launch/motorsport of, what could be described as Nissan's first super car.

https://csp311.net/

(Oh, did I say the website is mine?)

[Patcon]

4 hours ago, RIP260Z said:

Very, very nice Kats, any Silvia (csp311 only) I love to see.

It is a pity it is missing a few things, grab handles above door, sunvisors, and has Bluebird 410/411 hubcaps. But still lovely.

Hopefully, the restoration of my one will be to a very high standard (it is so far with the length I am going to..)

For those who are interested, this website is rather good for the design/launch/motorsport of, what could be described as Nissan's first super car.

https://csp311.net/

(Oh, did I say the website is mine?)

There's a lot of work waiting for you in your car!

Good luck with it!

[Gav240z]

Love it Kats, I have only ever seen 1 or 2 in person. The last 1 I saw in Australia in person was in 1998. I was at School back then, and I managed to convince 2 of my best friends to jump over the fence and go down the road to look at this car in person.

It had sadly been hit in the rear boot area (but fixable), and the original wheel was gone, but most of the interior was still there. It was in that "Gold" colour, but it had faded many times over. Wish we had camera phones back then. I did see the same car again in a shopping centre car park a few months later, but that was it.

Would love to know what happened to it, hopefully it was saved.

[kats]

6 hours ago, RIP260Z said:

Very, very nice Kats, any Silvia (csp311 only) I love to see.

It is a pity it is missing a few things, grab handles above door, sunvisors, and has Bluebird 410/411 hubcaps. But still lovely.

Hopefully, the restoration of my one will be to a very high standard (it is so far with the length I am going to..)

For those who are interested, this website is rather good for the design/launch/motorsport of, what could be described as Nissan's first super car.

https://csp311.net/

(Oh, did I say the website is mine?)

Hi Ian . I am so impressed with your website, simply fantastic ! You have been dedicated so much for the history of the car , I can see how much 

effort you have put into it . You are not Japanese , there might be some difficulties to do the work . Amazing!

And I am so happy that you wrote about A550X , https://csp311.net/a550x-development-history-a550x開発の歴史/

this page , I think everyone must read it . You put what I ( Nissan designers too of course!) wanted to say .

To know about S30 developing story , your article back up what was happening at that time in Nissan , Yamaha , Tonouchi , Toyota , etc .

I am 100% with you Ian , Mr. Goertz did not do anything about S30 styling, He never had a chance to be involved S30 development because he left Nissan before the project began . A thing that he left to Nissan designers was , how to make clay models and how to use the tools . So some people may say without his teaching , they could not make a car . But , this does not mean anything about S30 styling .

Thank you so much Ian .

Kats

Edited January 8, 2019 by kats

[RIP260Z]

Hello Kats,

Your praise and enthusiasm for my site means a lot Kat. Thank you.

It has taken a lot of effort, hours to do this site, whether tracking down period magazine articles from Japan (I am still missing some) and working every single kanji by stroke, finding it electronically, pasting into Word, the translating via Google. So far, I must be up to around 80,000 kanji done. (No, google translate image on phone won't work on old faded print, where I had to use a hand lens). Plus, it gave a feel/understanding of Japanese kanji, and Japan as a whole, doing it the "long" way. Making sure the english sentences are short/un-complicated, so Google can give a better (though maybe not correct) kanji for me to post up.

It does bug me slightly that the Japanese is maybe not quite correct, but as long as a Japanese person can get the right idea of what I am saying. As HS30-H said to me, how maybe Japanese websites have perfect English.

I wanted the CSP311/A550X/Toyota 2000GT/S30 (as all their stories are joined/flow) be as good as I could find. That meant bypassing most of what was/is written in the western print (though it was still researched, read and cross referenced) and going back to where the story happened. Japan. My hope Kats, is someone in Japan sees my site, and this helps me get more information, to make the story, better, fuller, with thoughts, ideas and drawing, anything.

Patcon, I know. But it means that I have to go right back, no hiding, and it also means I can put my stamp on it, e.g. it will have larger fuel tank fabricated, and to match, I already have a refurbished/newly screen printed fuel gauge saying my larger fuel tanks volume, rather than stock. You won't notice, unless you know where to look. I am currently looking at doing some injection molding...

 

[Gav240z]

Hey Kats,

Is this your overflow bottle?

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/w275317099

21515-E4201

Not cheap at $952.38 USD buy it now price.

[kats]

Hi Gavin ,I am not  the seller , I don’t want to pass my bottle to someone. The one on sale is exact same my spare bottle which has a plastic cap with a reinforced metal bracket .

By the way , I am going to pick my spare S20 from OK Racing in February, stay tune !

Kats

[kats]

On 1/8/2019 at 11:01 PM, RIP260Z said:

Hello Kats,

Your praise and enthusiasm for my site means a lot Kat. Thank you.

It has taken a lot of effort, hours to do this site, whether tracking down period magazine articles from Japan (I am still missing some) and working every single kanji by stroke, finding it electronically, pasting into Word, the translating via Google. So far, I must be up to around 80,000 kanji done. (No, google translate image on phone won't work on old faded print, where I had to use a hand lens). Plus, it gave a feel/understanding of Japanese kanji, and Japan as a whole, doing it the "long" way. Making sure the english sentences are short/un-complicated, so Google can give a better (though maybe not correct) kanji for me to post up.

It does bug me slightly that the Japanese is maybe not quite correct, but as long as a Japanese person can get the right idea of what I am saying. As HS30-H said to me, how maybe Japanese websites have perfect English.

I wanted the CSP311/A550X/Toyota 2000GT/S30 (as all their stories are joined/flow) be as good as I could find. That meant bypassing most of what was/is written in the western print (though it was still researched, read and cross referenced) and going back to where the story happened. Japan. My hope Kats, is someone in Japan sees my site, and this helps me get more information, to make the story, better, fuller, with thoughts, ideas and drawing, anything.

Patcon, I know. But it means that I have to go right back, no hiding, and it also means I can put my stamp on it, e.g. it will have larger fuel tank fabricated, and to match, I already have a refurbished/newly screen printed fuel gauge saying my larger fuel tanks volume, rather than stock. You won't notice, unless you know where to look. I am currently looking at doing some injection molding...

 

 

Ian , I will do , I want many people to see your site , cross reference method works well to understand what was happening at that time.

About a translation software,  I can say it is not 100% correct Japanese, I see some sentences are not right as Japanese language, but I can see what the sentences are trying to mean . My English is worse than the soft?ware .

Kats

[heyitsrama]

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