Vintage Datsun Jackets

[Mike B]

There have been other threads with posts about Datsun jackets, but I thought I would start one solely decided to the subject. I have several vintage jackets. Here's one that I got on ebay recently (for less than $18). It says it belonged to someone that was part of the Datsun pace car crew for the 1974 Ontario 500, which I believe is actually the California 500 race held at Ontario Motor Speedway. Other than the embroidery on the front and the patches on the sleeve, it appears to be the same jacket that was given away or sold by dealers in the US. It still has the red quilted liner that many of the jackets are missing.

-Mike

[Mike B]

Here's one from a Canadian Datsun dealer - Brasso. They had dealerships in Calgary and Vancouver I believe. In fact, the S30 pre-production test crew stopped by the Calgary location during their northern cold weather test trip in 1969.

-Mike

[Mike B]

Here's a European rally team jacket from the early 1980's I believe.

-Mike

[Mike B]

Here's the Australian Datsun Rally jacket I bought from WingZr0.

-Mike

[Mike B]

Here is the earlier US Dealer jacket (as modeled by on ebay). These were also sold through Interpart/BRE and the old Interpart catalog says these were designed by Peter Brock. Not sure if that is accurate or not.

-Mike

[Mike B]

This is isn't really a Datsun jacket, but it's Datsun related. Its from the 1971 ARRC. There was a guy wearing one around the Mitty last year that had patches on it from every year he had been there and it didn't look like he had missed any.

-Mike

[Travel'n Man]

Thanks for sharing.

It would be nice if we did have logo'd items that we could purchase and let Mike pickup some extra coins - I know I would buy a logo'd shirt for car show season to support our group.

[26th-Z]

Here is the earlier US Dealer jacket

That is the one I have. Geese Mike! That's a lot of jackets! Your're the jacket meister!

[Carl Beck]

Nice Collection Mike:

My favorite is still the original BRE Team Jacket - - but I like the Australian Datsun Rally jacket a lot as well.

By the way - at the Datsun Dealerships, the Jackets and Liners were separate items. You could buy one or both. As I recall the jackets themselves were something like $8.95 and if you wanted the liner they were an extra $2.00. Because these were promotional items, I and many of the salesmen at the Dealerships purchased them ourselves and gave them to people that bought cars from us. The Service Managers also gave them to customers that had larger service bills.

I still have my Jacket from the Dealership - - - but it seems a lot smaller now...

FWIW,

Carl B.

[esprist]

How about this one here.

It says "Datsun" on the tag. Size L

If anyone wants it, I would let it go....

[JohnnyO]

So Mike, If you purchase E's jacket you will have effectively cornered the market on vintage Datsun Jackets.

Good work!

[Racer_Z_]

Those are some nice looking jackets. Just in case you didn't already know, Ontario Motor Speedway no longer exists, it and Riverside have been gone for years.