Old cars rotting away on your route?

[cosmo1]

Theres a Porsche under there somewhere...

TR-7

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Or the even more rare TR8

 

[cosmo1]

Or the even more rare TR8

Could be. Definitely not a 944.

 

[scratch]

A little off thread, this is a 1960 Airstream Camper somebody has behind his house. The guy is restoring a 1950 something Chevy panel truck to pull it.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Thought maybe the dog was posing by his house.

 

[cachsux]

I heard that Nissan came up with the Datsun name for North America for fear of a failure being associated with the Nissan name.

Kind of hard to sell a car to someone who was shot at by a plane of the same name in the war.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Wasn't that Mitsubishi? They made the Zero.

 

[texan]

I believe you are correct. They made the Zero.

Mitsubishi engines were in the Plymouth Arrow also.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

And the 3.0 v6 in my Plymouth Acclaim I had. That thing was a bomb and it made 33 on the highway if driven gently. Sold it after the crappy design rear axle broke again.

 

[cachsux]

"Nissan Motor founded in 1934 [edit]In 1934, Aikawa "separated the expanded automobile parts division of Tobata Casting and incorporated it as a new subsidiary, which he named Nissan Motor (Nissan)". Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (日産自動車 Nissan Jidōsha?). The shareholders of the new company however were not enthusiastic about the prospects of the automobile in Japan, so Aikawa bought out all the Tobata Casting shareholders (using capital from Nippon Industries) in June, 1934. At this time Nissan Motor effectively became owned by Nippon Sangyo and Hitachi.[13]
Nissan built trucks, airplanes, and engines for the Japanese military. The company's main plant was moved to China after land there was captured by Japan. The plant made machinery for the Japanese war effort until it was captured by American and Russian forces. From 1947 to 1948 the company was called Nissan Heavy Industries Corp."

 

[65Goat]

I got a split off another driver today, a little farther out in the boonies. Found some "new meat"! Speaking of new meat, these cars are located near the spot that Bobby Petrino crashed his Harley with a (not his wife) blonde on the back.

 

[65Goat]

Same house..........

 

[soberups]

 

[cosmo1]

I got a split off another driver today, a little farther out in the boonies. Found some "new meat"! Speaking of new meat, these cars are located near the spot that Bobby Petrino crashed his Harley with a (not his wife) blonde on the back.

Please try to find out if that old VW is for sale. If the floor pan is still solid, that would be an awesome project!

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

I got a split off another driver today, a little farther out in the boonies. Found some "new meat"! Speaking of new meat, these cars are located near the spot that Bobby Petrino crashed his Harley with a (not his wife) blonde on the back.

One of my tech school classmates had one of these. Gas fired heater!

 

[cosmo1]

One of my tech school classmates had one of these. Gas fired heater!

I had a 1960 Corvair with a gas-fired heater. Beat the hell out of mileage, but the car was toasty in less than a minute.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I am watching Pawn Stars and this girl is trying to sell her 1960 Corvair.

 

[65Goat]

Please try to find out if that old VW is for sale. If the floor pan is still solid, that would be an awesome project!

I will ask the regular driver to inquire the next time he is there. Luckily, I don't have to go out quite that far very often. What do they call those things, and about how old is it?

 

[Big Babooba]

Mid 50's Steadybreaker......er Studebaker Transtar waiting for the end.

 

[Brownslave688]