Does anyone recogniZe this emblem? Was it for 3x victory 280zx? in 1979,80,81 safarirally? I think NOT!

[dutchzcarguy]

Someone was selling this..  I don't think it has ANYTHING TO DO with z-cars?? anyone?

[dutchzcarguy]

Also when someone knows what it really is, let us know!

He wants us to believe that it's because the 240z has won the safari rally 3 times but did it? i remember something about the 280zx tripple crown..

What was that all about?  winning the safari rally from 1979... ??   iirc there is a sticker that says tripple crown '79'80'81  (that came obviously later)

Edited July 31, 2022 by dutchzcarguy

[HS30-H]

Nissan's East African Safari Rally 'Triple Crown' of overall wins usually refers to the consecutive wins of 1979, 1980 and 1981. Shekhar Mehta won all three driving Nissan PA10 Violets. The three cars now reside in the Nissan Heritage Collection at Zama.

Nissan first won the event outright in 1970, with Edgar Herrmann and Hans Schuller driving a PA510 Bluebird. Herrmann and Schuller won again in 1971 in an HS30 Datsun 240Z.

Nissan won again in 1973, with Shekhar Mehta driving an HLS30 Datsun 240Z, so the Z has won the event twice.

Winning the Safari Rally was always a big deal for Nissan, and they celebrated their success with many stickers, posters, t-shirts and grille emblems. There are lots of repro stickers on the market these days, some of which take a little too much artistic license, some of which are plain absurd. There's a company making grille badges which takes this absurdity to extremes, mixing the 240Z/260Z/280Z with Martini stripes and the Targa Florio race. A bogus and bizarre combo:

What?