Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Sad but true: I’m already at part thirty-one of this series! :(
This time I have a video from the land down under where the Datsun are so unloved that they are rusting away somewhere in a junkyard. The video has the suitable title Where Datsuns go to die.
I counted two 240K coupes, two 240K sedans and a bunch of other interesting Datsuns like a Cedric 220 and 330! What a terrible shame!
Video by 240kconvertible
I found another treasure on Marktplaats (Dutch Ebay): a JDM Nissan Cedric Y31 Brougham!
JDM Nissan Cedric Y31 Brougham
The car is powered by the 3 liter V6 VG30E, meaning it has 160hp and more importantly 247 N·m torque. Surely enough to move around this big green castle on wheels. ;)
The most beautiful element on this Cedric is by far the rabbit-ear-like fender mirrors. Very rare and certainly unique outside Japan:
JDM Nissan Cedric Y31 Brougham
The big question is: how did it get here? The registration dates back to early 1998, so perhaps a rich Japanese executive that was relocated to the Netherlands?
On the inside you won’t find the automatic gearbox on the transmission tunnel because it is located, as in the usual Cedric fashion, on the steering column:
JDM Nissan Cedric Y31 Brougham
Apart from that enough buttos to make a gadget freak go wild! :)
At the rear enough legroom and, of course, a lot of wood touches on the interior:
JDM Nissan Cedric Y31 Brougham
For European standards this would have been a luxurious car in 1991, but compared to Cedrics top model the Brougham VIP this car is actually quite bare… But is it worth its auction price of 4400 euros? (6000 dollars)
Found here: [Nissan Cedric Y31 Brougham @ Marktplaats]
In one of the Showa Meeting galleries I found a couple of Nissan GloriasCedric Y30s where one licenseplate stated it was Moon Equipped, but I surely had to disagree:
Skull Equipped Cedric Y30
Yes, it is more Skull Equipped than Moon Equipped!
Here is a closeup of that grille:
Skull Equipped Cedric Y30
A true piece of art! :)
Apparently not only the Japanese are tossing their cars into the trenches and leave them to rot: the Russians clearly are able to do just as great job as their Japanese neighbors:
Dumped Nissan Cedric Y31 in Russia
And from behind:
Dumped Nissan Cedric Y31 in Russia
A damn shame: I would have given that car a great home! :(
Back in 1989 when the Japanese economy was still blooming and the Lost Decade was on the doorstep, this guy looked so careless in his Y30:
Careless in your Gloria Y30
Nothing to worry about! ;)
Found at KPY30VIP
I thought this old Nissan Cedric newspaper ad was very funny:
Nissan Cedric 330 newspaper ad
Now would the ad imply the Cedric is better than the carriage in the background or is it supposed to be just as good as the carriage? At least the man and his wife (presumably head of the clan) seem to favor the Cedric over the carriage!
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