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What made the Datsun 510 Bluebird Coupe So Special.
We are big fans of Japanese Nostalgic Car by Petrolicious, and decided to launch a series of historically significant Japanese cars With our recent 510 video, JNC has written a great history of the Cup Bluebird a condensed version that is shared here.
History of Photography by Ben Hsu Jeremey Heslup.
Today, there are few cars from Japan's Miracle years that escape the eye of the collector, but well before Toyota Corona or obscure Isuzu each grandmother was requested by the street tuner and speculator as well, Datsun 510 was alone at the forefront of classical J forefront TiN.
Cars like the Toyota 2000GT or Datsun 240Z would always become collectable blue big chips to low production extremely expensive tourers and widely beloved best-selling sports cars were for-dom classic, but a fiscal pact marketed its affordability 1,990 and its fuel consumption of over 30 miles per gallon for decades, while the Japanese cars of similar origin were sent to the crusher by the thousands, the Datsun 510 was hoarded, granted, ran, and above all, loved.
Like any transportation plebeian cult classic is, the Datsun 510 came in a variety of body styles for the masses on the August 1967 introduction in Japan, where he was named Bluebird, Nissan has offered the reference forms of trio for 4-door sedan, a station wagon family oriented, and the other a 2 door sedan sports the same, when the car came stateside as Datsun 510 Nissan apparently didn t think for safe enough for Americans in our manhood lead a bird that does not emit light or thunder these three styles were made.
But why a sedan 2 doors and not a cut well in November 1968, Nissan has added a fourth body style to the range, a real cut with a party completely redesigned greenhouse and a window and C-pillar much faster return The Bluebird Cup would be the halo car of the series 510 well-appointed and elegant for a moment disadvantages of both doors and less rear height, dominates over the other in traffic in a mobile living room, was the quintessence the car cool.
To learn more the rest of the story Bluebird Cup and why this unique car quickly made his mark on history, head over Nostalgic Japanese car for the rest of the retrospective.
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