I read that the reason Australia did not get the Datsun 710 ( aka 140J, 160J, 160U,160JSSS ,1500) is that Australia was manufacturing the 180B at that time, and the 710 would had been direct competition to the 180B, vehicle which was being assembled and sold in Australia as said before.
I wish it would had been sold in Australia too....there would be a lot more performance literature and proven mods on this car.....in the US there are practically extinct, vanished, except for the very rare one around....and there is no information on it performancewise except from what can be extrapolated from 510 performance modification stuff that can be applied enginewise.
The SSS had IRS suspension very much like the 180B. Asian countries got the SSS version. The US 710 was the leaf sprung one.
This is probably the only case where I see Australia did not get a Datsun that the US got. Usualy it is the other way around.
