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    Image of AustinMiniMan AustinMiniMan
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    The styling is like a reverse mullet. A party up front, all business in the back.
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    Edited by AustinMiniMan at 11/21/09 9:48 PM AustinMiniMan was starred AustinMiniMan was unstarred
    Image of zarchitect zarchitect
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    Looks like a Trabant-truck. I love it! I want it! Please spare it to someone who has a heart and vision of greatness! I bet this guy now drives an escalade "truck."
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    Image of phunktion phunktion
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    I love that dash. Simple, straight and to the point, no AC vents cluttering it up or fancy crap getting in the way. Nowadays I can barely tell a truck's dash from a luxury sedan's. :(
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    Image of Big_Adam Big_Adam
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    D'aaawwww. Someone save the poor little truck. Got a face on it like a toothless smiling old man.
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    Image of Jim-Bob Jim-Bob
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    I am truly horrified! I never thought someone could be so lacking in taste or a soul as to needlessly junk something as cool as this. I mean, if it were on Craigslist I am sure it would have gone for more than the scrap value they got paid for it. The image of this truly awesome Datsun pickup in the junkyard will haunt my dreams for weeks. Whoever junked this should be taken out and beaten to death with the upper radiator hose from this poor pickup.
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    Image of TR3-A TR3-A
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    After working for a Datsun dealership for many years, I went to work out of my garage and started making some real money. One of my customers was a slight but tough as nails farmer who owned one of these. I remember him as sort of a Mark Martin character (I don't know if he had a propensity for coming in second.). The truck was well worn and in need of much maintenance. He brought it to me. Sure, it was small... er, tiny. But it was simple, tough and easy to work on. I did a clutch (his first) and a valve job plus lots of misc. stuff. The engine, BTW, was a near copy of the MGB engine except it was a mere 1200 ccs. I loved this truck and still want one. It won't give a Raptor any trouble but it sure would be inexpensive and usefull.
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    Novaload promoted this comment Edited by TR3-A at 11/21/09 6:35 PM TR3-A was starred TR3-A was unstarred
    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    I honestly have not seen this face before. At least in my part of the country, we had to wait a few years past 65 to start seeing these strange rolling tiny trucks--everyone else still have gangly old F150s and such.
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    Image of komowkwa komowkwa
    11/21/09

    @Novaload: It was a few years later before these little things started to show up in Florida at all and then there were only a few of the models with larger engines.

    The Chicken Tax did a good job of keeping them from getting a start in the market on this coast. As I recall, it was not until they started "making" them in the U.S. that you saw many of them on the road.
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    Image of 62imperialcrown 62imperialcrown
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    Best way to get around that little rule? Get a crew together and dismantle the thing and have one guy buy the cab, one guy buy the bed, one buy the engine/driveline, one buy the frame... Sort of like Johnny Cash's "One Piece at a Time" played backwards.
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    skitter promoted this comment 62imperialcrown was starred 62imperialcrown was unstarred
    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    11/23/09

    @62imperialcrown: It's worth a shot...
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    Image of stevezilla stevezilla
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    *adds this to my Christmas list*
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    Novaload promoted this comment stevezilla was starred stevezilla was unstarred
    Image of The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd. The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd.
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    I like how Datsun painted black above the turn signals where the grill extended onto the sheet metal. Very clever.
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    Novaload promoted this comment The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd. was starred The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd. was unstarred
    Image of komowkwa komowkwa
    11/21/09

    @The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd.: Good Eye! I would have missed that. Shows style over function is not a new rule.
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    Image of ummagumma82 ummagumma82
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    Best fender badge ever. And 60 horsepower isn't too shabby considering that thing probably weighs about as much as a large motorcycle.

    One of my earliest automotive memories is my granddad's 1979 Datsun pickup. I was very young at the time, but I'm pretty sure its tape deck could record from the radio, which is not something I've ever seen since.

    He also owned a few Subaru DL/GL wagons (including a 5-speed turbo), several AMC Eagles, he got on a Fiat kick for a while back in the 60s..Come to think of it, I really should tell him about this site.
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    Novaload promoted this comment ummagumma82 was starred ummagumma82 was unstarred
    Image of CptSevere CptSevere
    11/21/09

    @ummagumma82: You should. He'd like it here. Tell him about Hooniverse, too.
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    Image of 87CapriceEstate 87CapriceEstate
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    I have trouble wrapping my head around the fact that anything with 60HP can even move. I wonder how fast this little bugger went?
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    tonyola promoted this comment Edited by 87CapriceEstate at 11/21/09 3:03 PM 87CapriceEstate was starred 87CapriceEstate was unstarred
    Image of AlienProbe AlienProbe
    11/21/09

    @87CapriceEstate: Well pic #18 indicates with the speedo that it can get up to 70 at least. After that, however, it goes back down to 08mph.
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    coupeZ600 promoted this comment AlienProbe was starred AlienProbe was unstarred
    Image of ummagumma82 ummagumma82
    11/21/09

    @87CapriceEstate: Simple: It doesn't weigh 5000+ pounds! The Geo Metro got by with 55 hp for the first several years.
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    coupeZ600 promoted this comment ummagumma82 was starred ummagumma82 was unstarred
    Image of tonyola tonyola
    11/21/09

    @87CapriceEstate: I can personally attest that a Honda CRX with 76 hp was good for an honest 118 mph. Low weight is everything, and some aero slickness doesn't hurt either.
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    Image of 87CapriceEstate 87CapriceEstate
    11/21/09

    @tonyola: Thanks for all the responses. This truck, like my Chevy probably slowed down to a crawl on the hills, but it would go 80MPH on the flats just fine. Might be scary to be in this truck as it goes 80+MpH.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/21/09

    @87CapriceEstate: It kept it going fast enough to stay out of the junkyard for 44 years--how's that?
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    Image of JayXJ JayXJ
    11/21/09

    @87CapriceEstate: A guy I used to hang out with in high school had one (1966) as his first vehicle. It was okay around town.
    Getting on I-80 was a little scary. I think it topped out at 65 or so. I remember that little truck vapor locking all the time. What the heck it was 28 years old at the time.
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    Image of 87CapriceEstate 87CapriceEstate
    11/22/09

    @JayXJ: May I ask what state that part of I-80 was in? If the ride is fun at 65MPH why go faster? Just looked up what vapour lock is and it does not look good.
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    Edited by 87CapriceEstate at 11/22/09 12:33 AM 87CapriceEstate was starred 87CapriceEstate was unstarred
    Image of 87CapriceEstate 87CapriceEstate
    11/22/09

    Great piont Novaload!
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    87CapriceEstate was starred 87CapriceEstate was unstarred
    Image of JayXJ JayXJ
    11/22/09

    @87CapriceEstate: This was in Nevada. The speed limit was 75 and everyone went faster.

    #tips
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    coupeZ600 promoted this comment JayXJ was starred JayXJ was unstarred
    Image of 87CapriceEstate 87CapriceEstate
    11/22/09

    @JayXJ: Must have been difficult to be in Nevada without Air Conditioning though it must have cooled down slightly at night.
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    Edited by 87CapriceEstate at 11/22/09 11:32 AM 87CapriceEstate was starred 87CapriceEstate was unstarred
    Image of coupeZ600 coupeZ600
    11/22/09

    @87CapriceEstate: Coupe Z 600 had 34hp in 1972, and it still pulls the big hills at 60-65. Maybe all that rust has made it quite a bit lighter...
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    Image of JayXJ JayXJ
    11/24/09

    @87CapriceEstate: But it was dry heat...{snicker}

    #tips
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    Image of UrbanaBatakas UrbanaBatakas
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    We had a 1969 Datsun 1300 -- the next generation. Still very plain and simple, but it served my Dad's construction company well for 12 years before it was sold off -- still running!

    One time we hauled 1,800 pounds of gravel in it about 12 miles from a quarry to the jobsite. Kept the speed down...but it got the job done.

    I agree, somewhere after the mid 1980s simple work trucks vanished...and I miss them
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    Dear automakers,

    Go purchase this vehicle then have all engineers and designers examine it for weeks. No, months. As long as it takes for them to realize this is a proper work truck.

    Note the lack of luxury car features from the time it was built. You get gauges, a few knobs, lights, and a radio.

    Thank you.
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    Image of skitter skitter
    11/21/09

    @that ain't the way to have fun, son: You may need to strike it repeatedly with your marketing and product placement people, so they can understand it by osmosis.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/21/09

    @skitter: Yeah, but the sell here is everyone has their own damn iPodule so they don't need an old timey built in radio. Just stick a couple of cupholders and you're good to go.
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    Image of Hotrodelectric Hotrodelectric
    11/21/09

    In reply to 1965 Datsun 1200 Pickup Heads To The Last Roundup
    A shame. These are a pretty neat little rig when they're done up. No bullshit, just truck.
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