just commenting on re: excellent pb210 in australia

the car is actually in sydney in my garage after it was bought from taren point and my husband used to work with coxy and blairy we have had the car about 20years it is a bit rustier and older than steve remembers. also the big bore motor is now running in a datsun 1600

Good looking car, If only my mate would let me repaint his 120Y in these colours. I think the reason that most cars were re-exported within a year was that at that time you had 12 months to pay any imports taxes & duties, so to avoid this most cars went back overseas. The other way around it was to do an event in another country, like New Zealand, because you could claim the car had been exported for sale but the sale fell through, & you then had another 12 months before you had to pay the fees. I was told by Arthur Jackson, a NSW rally competitor, that in the mid 70's he built an L series powered 120Y for the NSW rally championship, but found it was very unpredictable in it's handling, so he built another 1600 instead.

Only 1 car came in from Japan for the 1977 Southern Cross rally,that car was driven by Sheka Mehta the Kenyan works driver.
The car then languished in canberra in the workshop of Gerry Ball tuning who gained ownership as part payment for running Greg Carr in a Nissan(Then Datsun) support role in both the Australian Championship and the Southern Cross Rally.
The car then passed on to ex works driver Geoff Portman who used the head to build a 2.4 litre LZ based engine for his Bluebird project.
The car was then bought by myself and Steven Blair as a complete rolling shell with flares intact in original works colours.
I supplied works vented disks and 4 spot calipers a works H190 LSD as that was missing(27 spline axles) normal H190 used either 25 or 30 spline axles,when sold it was fitted with a big bore 90.5mm L20 B engine fitted with an FIA group 2 cylinder head and 48mm dcoe webers,anyone claiming to have owned this car will have been aware that the Factory restamped the chassis number and the original numbers were overwritten with a Nissan style logo stamp.
The car was sold in sydney and then passed on to one of the members of Brindabella Motorsport club in Canberra,the only relevant post I have read so far is the part about it now being in Victoria with a member of the Historic Rally Club down there.
If we are going to post about something with Historic Signifigance please be accurate. Regards Steve

I have enough parts to build another complete car, and I could probably get stuff out of South Africa if needed, but that wiould take a while.

They were released in SA as the 140Y, in a few different versions, the bottom of the line, the SDX, had the Excellent nose and 120Y tail lights, running the A14. The 140Y GX was identical in every respect to the Excellents, the 140Z and 160Z were the same as the Excellents but had different Carbies, namely Dellorto’s, twin 40’s I think

Cool, I never saw a sunny excelent (PB210) in sedan, is it have also round tail lights?
Any more pixes?
Nice ride.