I'm done with this thread!

There's an elephant oil cap on e-bay right now, where the seller purports that:

"This was made to celebrate Datsuns South African Safari Win in 1969."

Any ideas of whether this is BS?

oil cap link

Maybe someone who can read the Japanese charecters on the cap can shed some light on this. There are a lot of charecters to just say "OIL" so maybe there is a clue on the cap itself?

Alan? Kats? anyone?

It say: "We like put 710 on oil cap but George Bush come kick our arse so put elephant on".

I'm done with this thread too....

My 73 originally came with the "plain oil" cap from orig. owner. Cap was beat. When I first had car serviced 5 yrs ago, they "suggested" I get a new "oem" cap. They put a new elephant oil cap on. They put a new Nissan radiator cap on too. Now my Z never forgets......

I have one that will trump you all,

My 74 Z has a 710 cap on it but... wait for it....

The elephant is upside down...

Since this is obviously as rare as, I will consider selling it. I will consider any offers over $10,000 au. Note the car is not included...:stupid:

mine is differnt again !!! i have jspec one on my 280zx fairlady.

I was interested enough to send the seller a question about where he got his info, and he said:

I found the info in a Japan magazine on the history of the Bluebird. It covers the BRE, Rallly, SSS as well as other 510/bluebird info.

FWIW

Remember, there are also magazines that credit Goertz with the design for the Z. (Or anything else for that matter!)

FWIW

Hello,

I have 2 oil caps, the one is just"oil" on it and the other is unique for the elephant picuture and japanese caution.

I can see the "just oil" cap on the first U.S. brochure.But I do not know about elephant oil cap for U.S. model.

Here is a photo of my oil cap march 1970 240Z.

http://www.geocities.jp/datsunz903/details.html

http://www.geocities.jp/datsunz903/240zmore008.jpg

And I interpret this elephant oil cap I attached here,

let's begin from north-hemisphere,from the left to the right

"Elephant oil Wo,"

Wo is specifying (or I can say requesting) "elephant oil"

then south-hemisphere,from the left to right

" Chu-Nyu Shite Kudasai"

Chu-Nyu means "pour",Shite Kudasai is polite saying"please do"

So,it is not difficult,just saying "please pour elephant oil"

Elephant oil was a genine oil for NISSAN's engine.

kats

Thanks for the translation and information on "Elephant" being a brand of oil

I was just looking at the two oil caps that I have which are of the "Elephant" type. It seems that there are at least two varieties of "Elephant" cap.

One is made to be used with a Valve cover that has a completely flat mating surface. This cap has a place for an O-ring to be installed on it's lower sealing surface.

The other variety of "Elephant" cap is made for use with a Valve cover that has a groove in the valve cover for an O-ring to be seated, and the cap's sealing surface is completely flat.

I have not idea which was used first, or second, or if they were intermixed in usage.

I add this photo from the owner's manual of fairlady-Z.

This description is for an auto matic transmission.

But the photo of oil can,you can see the elephant on it,

it is basicaly same for the engine oil can.

kats