The price of crude had its biggest surge in a single day ever last week, the writing is on the wall.

I have been thinking about this for the last few days and wondering what everyone is going to do when fuel hits $5 and then $10 a litre, and then in a flash of inspiration I realised, they are all going to wish they had little Datsun 1000s, 1200s and 120Ys, all the Commodores, Falcons and Landcruisers will be left on the side of the road where they have run out of juice because they will be worthless and not worth filling with petrol.

We however shall be free to roam the roads with the electrics and hybrids in our super efficient old skool technology, the Datsun shall take its rightful place at the top of the pecking order.

That day will soon be upon us my friends when Datsuns will rule the earth.

well im going to have problems with turbo wagon when its finished im thinking its going to be expensive to run..... but hey ill have my daily driver granny spec 1k with the smoky old a10 using 4 litres to the 100k's (it would be around that much maybe less?????)

Your a mad man Sidey, I like it in my family there is a bog stock 120y,my 1200 (L series Quad Carbs not very ecenomical) and my brothers stanzas and I tell you now they are not going anywhere fast!

Long live the Datsun!

Jake

Haha yes.

It's sad to see in PNG because we're currently copping the price rises and in regard to the income per capita it's devastating.

We have 10 company vehicles, 15 including forks, cranes, 3 back up generators which run about 35% of our business over the week (herendous power company) so the fuel bill is tremendous.

The day datsuns rule the planet, heaven has truly crossed into reality!

I will have issues because with premium running threw the twin 40's to the worked a15 she drinks a fair bit... But thats alright it just means that the ute will be come a less mobile work of art and will live in the entry to my house like a glass elephant

ill just "mad-max" it... strap a hole heap of drums and weponery to the 120y and steal heaps of fuel..or i could go green, hmmmmm nah screw the earth..

Will this guy be our new ruler?

feels better to be on lpg now

Hmmmm, [thinks] I still have that 42,000 mile A10 under the bench, ... on gas. in a gutted 1000 Ute. Should be good.

When I had the GX in my B10 I was able to coax a true 50+ mpg from it in economy mode without difficulty, & that was at speeds that the A10 would have struggled to maintain.

Dodgys thread has brought back memories,many many years ago i did an economy run with my club in Melbourne,to my surprise i won the event outright,and class,and the Trophy sits engraved within my show-offs cabinet with the markings engraved 57.6 MPG Datsun 1000

That was a stock as a rock B10 4 door with about 45 psi in the little 12" nylons

So yes,there is every likelyhood of a second coming