Nissan's "Elephant" brand oils and fluids were indeed named after successes in the East African Safari Rally.

They predate the Z car by some years.

They used several different versions of the elephant logo over the years.

Here's one that they used in Factory parts manuals;

Here's a sticker that they used on the oil cap of the S20 engine:

There you go! Thanks for the info, guys.

Excellent! Now we know :classic: .

Yes,now I know why the elepahant oil named after safari rally.

Let me say on behalf of japanese people,elephant is a hero of all the children and it reminds us Africa.Zoo was a much more exciting place to go for all the people in 1970's than nowadays.

1970,there was a big international convention in JAPAN.

Zoo was a special for the new economic generation.

I think NISSAN wanted to have good images(proof,and endurance)to their production staff.African Safari rally's win was a good thing for them.

We feel that days the japanese people were active and powerful.Japanese economy was a rising sun,every day changing like in China now.

kats

Realizing this is a very old thread .... anyway thought it would be interesting to post a picture of the original oil filler cap on our 1971 FairladyZ-L.