even though the car was titled as a 64 it may have been produced as a 63
model year. and the dealer bumped the title up to a 64 if the didn't sell
buy Oct of 63 when the new 64 models came out back then... this was Legal
until law was passed in 1970
Mike Kerr
Roadster Restoration
PH# 530-644-6777
Fax # 530-644-7252
Web page WWW.innercite.com/~wolfgang
----- Original Message -----
From: <LCinPhxAZ@aol.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: Misrepresentation (Was Found A 67.5 Solex)*LONG*
> Since our name is being brought up..... ;)
>
> We knew the car in question was a '64 before committing to purchase it.
> Thanks to the excellent education Andrew and the others gave us at the
AZROC
> picnic as well as research we had done on the Internet, we were able to go
> back for another look and properly identify the vehicle. We also realized
at
> that investigation that the engine was not an original 1500. The owner
let
> us examine the title before we even told him we were interested, and sure
> enough it is also titled as a '64.
>
> I honestly don't think this fellow intentially misrepresented the car.
After
> some discussion about the condition of the vehicle, he made an attractive
> adjustment to the price and the rest, as they say, is history.
>
> But an interesting aside:
>
> After I posted the URL of our web page to the group, Mark in Maryland
> contacted me with the tantalizing promise of more info on the car. It
turns
> out he was in Flagstaff in the early '90's and knew the car's owner and
even
> drove it. This PO owns a car lot that is still operational, so I gave him
a
> call. When I told him we now owned a Roadster with a wood dash, he
> remembered the car exactly, and was even able to tell us that it came to
HIM
> from a guy in Verde Valley (which is south of Flagstaff).
>
> Small world, isn't it?
>
> Charlotte and Leonard Hoover
> '64 SPL310
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