Hi All. Our group are doing up a couple of cars to look like the Nissan Works

1971 Safari rally cars.This was held in Kenya, Nairobi, etc. when of course the 240z took the world on and won. We need pictures of the position of the decals so we can reproduce these. We have searched the net and the best we can see are mostly distant, or angled, or car covered in dirt.

Any help with pictures would be most appreciated. Thanks.

Brian.

We are having trouble contacting companys, concerning copying their logos and decals.We want to be very careful not to infringe on anyones copyright.

Has anyone done replica cars without worrying about this aspect, or is it very risky. For example the Shell logo, or Seiko.

Thanks, Brian.

I suspect you would only encounter problems if you sent them an invoice for advertising!

Could be worth a try, though....

The worst scenario is that they may ask you to remove them, highly unlikely.

I suspect you would only encounter problems if you sent them an invoice for advertising!

Could be worth a try, though....

The worst scenario is that they may ask you to remove them, highly unlikely.

Well in that case i got some stickers to make too! What happend to the head light buckets on the number 11 and number 1 car? Where they took off for storage or what???

I have some too,

I was surprised the under floor pan was not damaged very much than I expected.Looks like nothing has changed from our 240Z except the exhaust system!!

And some from Japanese car magazine, note before the rally, the additional lamps on the bonnet have a clear cover.

Left rear fender, the SEIKO sticker.above the SEIKO, there is no KS (Kanto seiki: for the steering lock & key /Tach and Speedo e.t.c. ) sticker.I think this KS sticker was added after the car shipped back to Japan.Nissan displayed this car at the Tokyo motor show 1971, so Kanto Seiki wanted to be advertized at the show.

Also support cars, the far left is 240Z , this might be as a donor for the race cars.

kats

Edited November 8, 201014 yr by kats

I'm blown away with the response from everyone. These pictures are amazing.

Thanks so much.

Hi guys, here are some pictures of a recent Club display. We had over 30 cars later in the morning. My car is number 11.

Obviously the stickers are not 100% but we managed to convey the idea.

We had a small african scene as well with shield, spears etc, and the Kenyan flag. We had a blast doing this.

My thanks to all who helped with pictures of the origional cars etc.

Brian.

Edited November 24, 201014 yr by olzed

Very cool! Maybe you could put the stickers on very thin magnet material and make them removable?

I have an original East African Safari Rally poster from a Nissan Dealer that's being framed now along with some other Datsun posters. It's my favorite vintage poster. I can't wait to get it back and display it.

-Mike

Yes Mike. The magnet idea is good. We didn't get all of the stickers as we were eating into Club funds a bit too much. I'm very envious of your rally poster.

The idea of the rally theme proved to be quite popular with the public, especially with our camp fire and warthog skin etc.

That front spoiler on No 31 would'nt last long on a Safari rally:ermm:

Agreed Nigel. The owner didn't want to remove the spoiler for the day.

We met up with a couple who spent most of the last 30 years in Kenya, but now live in NZ. They were most interesting to talk to, as they have vivid memories of the Nissan Team cars and seeing the 240Zs that won. They are in their 60s now and were delighted when we showed them our car number 11 dressed up with numbers-logos etc. Also some pictures we had enlarged.

Brought back to them many memories.

There is actually one 260Z that is imported from NZ to Finland. Quite a long journey i would say. Im sure it's one of a kind. Its for sale if someone is interested to import it again http://www.nettiauto.com/datsun/260/3358107