sblake01

In my mind the 810 is definately a 70s car and the Maxima is an 80s (and up) car. It has all of the 70s stuff. Big bumpers, plaid/houndstooth or whatever disco era type pattern they could come up with in the interior, gun sight type hood ornament, opera windows etc. Kind of like Nissans answer to the Toyota Crown. But rather than copy it so they looked the same, regardless of manufacturer, as least back then you could distinguish a Toyota form a Nissan/Datsun without reading the emblems.

The true 810 was only available from 77-79 with a few beinig sold as 1980 kind of like the transition in late 1974 from the 260Z to the 280Z. The 'Maxima' bodied one that were badged as the 810 in 1980 and 1981 don't count. A 77-79 810 is certainly a 'larger, fancier sedan/coupe' and it was 'entrenched' in the 70s. You just don't see them that often, especially 2 dr. hardtops like mine, because they didn't really catch on that well, then or now, as I only know of a handful of people that own them, and even fewer who know what they are when they do see them.

I reacall those slaves with the spring being readily available years ago. The 510s also used them and it would have been easy to get that one instead of the later one because either would work and the average parts counter guy didn't know any more about Datsuns then than they do now.

This thread really needs to be stopped. Not that it's intent wasn't good but what goes on here goes on an any site to some extent. The mods chime in to get the members to 'ease up' and that works for a while. As they say, people will do what's inspected rather than what's expected. In the meantime, you end up with all of these 'sidebars', like in most other threads. Then we end up talking about those. It just spirals into all of these different things, like who thinks who's wife is hot, who's parents know what their kids are doing, etc. The actual intent gets lost. It was a noble effort by Mike to attempt to quell the perceived problem but it has lost it's direction.

No, I've always been about 6' 2" and between 195-205 lbs. since my college days.

Like I said:

I could do that but it would probably be more representative of the types of music I'm into rather than the general membership here.

I forgot about the 1200 or (K)(L)B110. I much preferred that car over the B210. That's another on I'd own under the right conditions. Small, nimble, economical and the potential is there as are many of the parts if you wanted to turn it into something more.

I believe 8/71 was the cutoff date for the type A trans that would have used the spring on the release lever.

That's your problem. The tank/lines get clogged with sediment that builds up from the old gasoline just sitting for all that time. The tank and lines will need to be cleaned before the system would be able to generate enough fuel pressure to run properly. The fact that you were able to start car with fuel poured into air intake, but the car would stop when out of fuel tells me that you were getting spark. If that's no longer the case then that problem would lie somewhere in the 'replacement ecu, transistor, condensors, throttle position( on intake) regulator,coil' that you've installed.

Don't forget the 810 (though most have). The 610/710 didn't really catch on as a successor to the 510 so the sales weren't as expected. They even revived the 510 (sort of) in 1978 but that one didn't have the IRS. It was badged as a 510 but it's actual model designation was A10. It was even less successful than the 610/710. B210s were rather a rather lackluster econobox, at least the versions the US got. The F10 (had one of those) was the first FWD Datsun in the US and it had some built in problems such as shift linkage, clutch linkage, etc. I wouldn't subject myself to the ownership of another one! As far as the earlier Datsuns (you mentioned the 410) they were miserable little cars that you'd just have to love to own one. My 320 pickup falls in that catagory. They're cramped, noisy, underpowered, hot, miserable little cars. That being said, I have no plans of getting rid of mine. If you like Datsuns, you like Datsuns regardless of where they were on the automotive scale in their era.

I'll use 'Datsun Dog' for a while. I really wish this thread would hurry up and run it's course.

There are so many more imortant things in this world to worry about......

When I posted the picture I had a general idea of what kind of comments I would possibly see and I'm okay with it.

What webpage were you looking at???????? I don't take offense to much that's said here really. If I did, I'd say so, believe me. I was just being silly, as you said, like some of the others that posted pictures of their wives. Now, I might be offended at being referred to as a 'skinny white guy' since as you can see, I'm not skinny and the rest speaks for itself.

And in the other post I probably should have said 'Le merde n'est pas trop profond.'

That's about it...trial and hopefully not much error.

I think that was done so that the collapsable spare, etc. would fit in the 77-78.

You know, you can adjust the float so that it reads higher or lower by carefully bending the arm in small increments until you reach you desired reading. Bend down if it reads low or up if it reads high. That is, if you are certain that everything else is in proper working order and it"s reading incorrectly. So, Vous n'êtes pas vraiment dans la merde. (pardon if my French isn't so good)

I did paint them the original color. I'm not talking about matching the faded original color. In all three cases that you see in my sig. picture, none of them were matched from the paint that was already on the vehicle. They were mixed from the formula that the particular factory color code designates. Any good paint shop can do this. But, I hate to say this but sometimes giving an opinion in one of your threads makes me feel like I'm arguing with a sign!

For anyone who doesn't realize, that is my beautiful wife, and much better half, Daisey. I don't mind anyone saying that she looks 'totally hot', I agree, though she is quite modest about her looks, and considers herself to be much deeper than all of that. And we've both been black all of our lives. Never thought that that was of any more signifigance than a persons gender, national origin, etc. when traversing websites. I agree with much of what you say, Rockr69, except that I wasn't involved in the 'offensive rhetoric'. My comments in that thread had to do with the 'text' lingo and general socializing in a technical thread. That part was moved to another thread and this probably would have all died out by now had it not been for this thread.

And you're of the opinion that a can of the original color would match any better?

What would you use a can of original paint for if you could find it? It wouldn't match your car anyway after all these years. Color matching actually would be better for touch-ups etc.

That glove box lock set doesn't appear to be for a Z. At least, not a 260/280. That's a single side key like the one for my 64 L320 PU but it doesn't have a locking glove box.

From the 77 FSM: