Datsun?s Leaping Hare Hood Ornament Wishes You a Prosperous Year of the Rabbit

01-03-2011 02:32 AM

The 1935 Datsun Model 14 was Nissan‘s first factory production vehicle and the management deemed, as was appropriate for cars of the era, that*a sculpture be affixed to the vehicle’s prow. Luckily, the choice of a figure was right there in the car’s name. Datto means “speeding hare” in Japanese, and that’s exactly how one [...]

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