1971 DATSUN 240 Z - JAPAN # 39; S SPORTS CAR PEOPLE
After the success of the new sports car Datsun Fairlady and largest Nissan Cedric Nissan sedan had grown up enough confidence to try their hand at building a luxury sports coupe Nissan weren t the first Japanese automaker to build a luxury coupe, the Prince Motor company built the coupe Prince Skyline Sport in 1961 and Hino working on a coupe version of the Contessa when Nissan began working on the Silvia project Nissan designer house called Kazuo Kimura started work designing the new coupe, and Nissan has added the general concept of the coupe they weren t happy with it is styling the decision was taken to provide external support for the project from it's beautiful style and the fact that was the first ever Japanese luxury coupe, the other remarkable thing about the Prince Skyline Sport is that it was not designed by a person in Prince Motors, it was actually designed by the famous Italian designer Michelotti Skyline Sport was the first built Japanese car that could be described as really beautiful, even if the car has sold only 500 is short campaign production, it has made a big impact, and suddenly every Japanese automaker was out to hire a European master to design their new model After his work at Prince Michelotti then designed the new Hino Contessa sedan and coupe and sedan designed later Daihatsu Compagno lovely and convertible at this stage, Nissan has employed other than Pininfarina to design the Bluebird series 410 and later the 130 series Nissan Cedric so it is not surprising that Nissan has decided to call for Europe to assistance with project design cut to Silvia, Nissan has retained the services of a German designer by the name of Count Albrecht Graf Goe rtz, who moved to Japan to help their house designer Kazuo Kimura Goertz was formed in Germany and in 1950 traveled to the United States where he worked for Studebaker, the design of the Studebaker S tarliner He returned in Germany, where he was employed by BMW BMW His work included the beautiful 507 cabriolet he then moved to Porsche, where he was part of the design team working on the original design of the 911 Kimura is an unfortunate mixture of design elements, and even featured pop-up headlamps, which was quite a novelty in the mid 1960s by Goertz, Japanese designers saw the design process as a fusion of different ideas Goertz instead designed the new car as a single entity that included many of his trademark features seen previously on cars like the BMW 507, as a long line of capo Does that splits in front of an open grid, larger wheels and wheel arches and small delicate bumper bars Goertz taught art designers working on clay models during the design phase, and Silvia ended up being the first Japanese car designed using a full-scale clay model the final product of the collaboration between Goertz and Kimura was baptized ee Nissan Silvia, and given the designation CSP311 Silvia was a really beautiful and unique car is angular lines and crisp panel folds were really more European than Japanese He had a long bonnet with cabin set well back, and had a very short section of the boot before the car was a point very dramatic, something quite similar to the latest Chevrolet Corvette 1970s Kimura idea flagship pop-up was dropped and instead the car had a quad headlights set in network u not recessed section at the front, also housed at the gate opening of the grid itself is quite complex and was composed of eight blades Recessed solid aluminum in three vertical bars bumpers are very thin, and back is actually two separate half bumper with an inbetween space where the license plate sitting European style continues through to the interior and the dashboard was a big flat top which opened in dashboard eye shape in front of the driver the dashboard itself was very reminesent from those used by Ferrari in the dashboard there was a center console which is passed under the dashboard to the transmission tunnel and then again along the tunnel between the seats the interior was very comfortable and luxurious enough for today s Mechanically the car was a Datsun Fairlady new stylish body sits in a chassis the Fairlady SP310 égèrement modified When the prototype was shown that it is displayed as Datsun 1500 Coupe, as he used the engine and gearbox of the SP310 When Silvia came on stream in March 1965, he was fitted with the new 1595cc engine 96HP series R, which would be used in the Fairlady SP311 update in May this year, he also became the first Nissan to be equipped with disc brakes, which would also end soon on the Fairlady Nissan had to sell their cars in two different brands, with smaller models and cheaper sold as Datsuns and larger models and more expensive sold as Nissans in Wh Silvia is on sale, it was close to double the cost of a Fairlady, it was undoubtedly will be a Nissan, not a Datsun badges of the car's side said Nissan Silvia, and at the back, Silvia said the round badge on the front said Nissan will of hould sell many of these expensive luxury cuts, and because of this fact no release has been made to eradicate the panels, instead of the body of the car was completely handmade, with the panels being hand beaten on a jig the floor section of the Fairlady was used, but other than that the car was completely hand built Initially Silvia was available in only one color, a cryptic metallic green named Silvia gold, but much later in the production run was available in blanc Silvia ended up being sold only in Japan, Australia and New Guinea in all only 554 were ever built Silvias production lasted from March 1965 to September 1968.
Silvia Highway Patrol Too early 1965, are in charge of the highway patrol in Japan, and you have a problem, it is a problem that never really existed previously in Japan until recently, drivers were a very respectful group of people act, speeding and other driving offenses were almost unknown to be honest, speeding was almost impossible in cars that were built in Japan until recently, few people who could afford to own a car were driving cars like the Datsun 210, the Suzuki Suzulight and Mazda R-360, the fastest of these cars has a top speed of only 120 km, but most have serious trouble just happen to 90kph but in the early 1960 things changed, Japan has slowly recovered from the second World war and in the process has embraced capitalism jap economy onaise growing at an incredible pace and the Japanese people suddenly begin to enjoy a new found wealth, and a large part of their income is now spent on new cars Japanese automakers were quick to respond and the first wave of cars Japanese performance began to emerge Nissan and Prince have paved the way for the Datsun Fairlady and Prince Skyline Sport, they were followed by the Honda S500 and S600 and the Toyota Sports 800 in early 1965 these cars become a spectacle more common in the streets of Tokyo and Yokohama, and their owners are not interested slowly tinkering around town these cars are driven fast and blue Datsun Police birds used have little chance to keep up with them you need a new highway patrol car to deal with this problem, what car you choose the car you want is the No. Why uvelle Nissan Silvia Nissan Silvia as a highway patrol car Why choose one of the most expensive cars ever built in Japan, a car that costs more than three times the previously used Datsun Bluebirds there are several reasons, but the most important is the speed when it is in duction in early 1965, Silvia was the fastest Japanese car ever built it has the speed of the highest peak and it could cover the quarter mile up two seconds faster than the Datsun Fairlady and Skyline Sport, and was much faster than the fastest cars Honda and Toyota was produced is handling was also good, and in most cases better than, what whatever else on the road, it was also the only Japanese car at the time had disc brakes, it stopped pretty good too Several changes have been performed on Silvia to turn it into a highway patrol car outside, the car has large mandatory warning roof lights and a few extra lights mounted above the bumper bar before the radio antenna was removed and an antenna police radio was mounted on the roof of the car is also equipped with a large over-riders at the front and rear bumpers, something the standard Silvias never had another noteworthy thing about the outside the car, apart from the painting two-tone rather unfortunate, is the emblem of the car on the side Silvia standard emblem is mounted near the bottom of the guard before, about 7-8 inches from the bottom on highway patrol car emblem is mounted very high, just under the top of the guard bend But the most interesting thing is that it is a different emblem instead of the emblem Nissan Silvia he an emblem in particu link to the highway patrol car that says Silvia Silvia Patrol Highway Patrol cars actually applied the law in the streets of major cities in Japan for the coming years until the second wave of Japanese performance cars hit the streets in the coming years, the Fairlady 2000 Prince Skyline GTB and Toyota 2000GT came out and could outperform comfortably Silvia again, the hot new sedans such as the Datsun Bluebird SSS and Isuzu Bellett GT starting to match performance is, and possibly Silvias were replaced by Ady RATHER Datsun Z.
A Japanese sales brochure for the 1965 Nissan Silvia CSP311.
A sales brochure for the 1965 Nissan Silvia CSP311.
Japanese car Datsun 2 Japanese Prince Skyline Sport, 1965 Nissan Silvia 1965 Nissan Silvia CSP311.