Datsun Roadster in car Camera at Coronado Speed Festival

[Ron Carter]

Hi Phillip, yeah there are not many 67.5 2000 racers any longer, maybe 5 or 6. The most famous one was Jack Scoville's 67.5 serial #4. Bob Klemme rebodied that roadster back to it's original configuration and sold about 2 years ago for 50K. It was shipped to Australia

My car is #305 do you know the serial number of the car shown above? Or do you have contact information for the owner, it would be nice to touch base with him.

I have also started a blog with details of all my cars: www.rcnetworksracing.com

Thanks,

Ron

Edited November 7, 2009 by ron carter

[preith]

Hi Phillip, yeah there are not many 67.5 2000 racers any longer, maybe 5 or 6. The most famous one was Jack Scoville's 67.5 serial #4. Bob Klemme rebodied that roadster back to it's original configuration and sold about 2 years ago for 50K. It was shipped to Australia

I had no idea the '67's were that rare/valuable, which made me doubtful his was, I revisited the race results... it's an SRL311 '68 model. The '67 figure must have come up when we were chatting about the production history, etc. Sorry for the false info. :embarrass: With that said I'm fairly sure it's race history still dates back to when the car was purchased.

[Ron Carter]

Hi Phillip,

Personally, I think it is history that makes the difference, rare is nice, history is interesting.

I seriously doubt that I could even come close to Bob's figures for my car, if I were to sell it, even though my car has the original body and not a "rebodied" car. Most roadsters were eventually flared so that they could continue to be competitive into the 70's and 80's. Some are still racing competitively with SCCA today.

Your friends car is evidence of that trend. My car was never modified that way and I am grateful for that as I like it as it ran in the day.

There are also a couple of light weight roadsters too, 1968 was the only year of light weight roadsters (bodies in white,lightened at the factory for competition), and I have seen 2 and know of only a handful of others. Your friends car, if it was a competition car since new could be a light weight car. It is worth looking into.

You might find this interesting as well:

http://www.datsun.org/fairlady/usindex.htm

Ron