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Old 07-18-2014, 05:37 PM
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Yup...my favortist (it oughtta be a word) car of my youth. Obviously not the racing version, but the Riverside Datsun dealer would install just about anything you wanted that BRE sold...air dams, header, cam, carbs, minilites, revised shifter linkage, bigger brakes, konis and shortened springs, roll bars, seat/belts, nice wooden Nardi, etc.
all installed as brand new with the car. It was that or a Capri V6. Wished I had it now to put these newbie little ricer toys to shame.

Alas, its life (and damn near mine) ended when I came home to Fresno from school for a weekend and had just dropped off my wife to be of 40 years when I smashed it into a pickup that an irrigator had parked sideways across the road so he could use his headlights to see how the water was progressing in an orange grove...hit it at about 60mph..barely got to touch the brakes. I broke the steering wheel...pulled little slivers of wood from my head for weeks.

Miss it mucho.
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