Listers,
This is a message from Jack Davis:
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As I mentioned to the list earlier I sent an email to GRM regarding Classic
Autosport and their failure to mention the Datsun roadster. The next day I
received a reply from the Publisher, Managing Editor and the Editor - all
assuring me the Datsun roadster will not be overlooked. I have copied the
response from the Editor below.
Anyone in the San Francisco area with a roadster they would like to see in
Classic Autosport be sure to read the last paragraph. Send your information
to Editorgary@aol.com
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Jack Davis
Lafayette, CO
'69 2000
SRL311-11273
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Jack -- Thanks for taking the time to write.
Your letter falls on very willing ears -- What is not known by many of my
British Car readers is that my very first "sports car" was a Datsun 2000,
that I bought new from the Tulsa Datsun dealer in June of 1968. Great
memories of driving it from Tulsa to graduate school in Pittsburgh, PA, and
then with friends who bought a matching bright red 1600, racing around the
hills of Pennsylvania, going on rallies, racing it in weekend autocrosses.
Then I drove it for the year that I worked at Ford in product planning
(showed the seat belt engineers the three-point belt when Ford was still
doing a two-buckle system) and my wife drove it the two years I was in the
army, through two Detroit winters. We finally lost the car when we were
t-boned on an icy road in Nova Scotia on a two-week driving trip in the
Maritimes while we were living in New York City in 1973.
So, count on us doing a roadster comparison of 1964-1969 roadsters including
the Datsun 2000 against the other cars I considered when I bought it -- MGB,
Fiat 124, and Sunbeam Alpine -- as our second "That was the year that was"
comparison. The first comparison is going to be from the year 1960, and will
include a Healey, TR3, Porsche 356, and Alfa Giulietta -- but that pre-dated
the Datsun, by a year or so.
Incidentally, we will be debunking the myth that the Fair Lady was copied
from the MGB.
Have a favor to ask -- who do you know in the San Francisco Bay Area who I
can contact regarding a good 1600 or 2000 for our comparison drive?
Cheers
Gary Anderson
Editor, Classic Autosport
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