The classifieds section is hardly the place for this rubbish. I feel like you guys have posted this up just to through $hit at this guy. Fact is, with a new set of wheels and half a days work, this thing would be a beast. To be honest, who doesn't want to tinker with their new datto anyway.
I also have spent some time in Japan and I fitted some modern seats, modern race pack dash and modern engine to my KB10 mustang and I still love it everytime I sit down and go for a drive.

The mods should pull this down and let this guy have a fair go.
Good luck with the sale.

I agree with you gav, it is poor taste to diss another guy's 1200, especially one as nice as that ... So I moved the original advert info to new thread.

The ute is nicer than 95% of US style mods. It seems like the ones seen on the Web include the very best so you might get a certain stereoptyped impression, most however are just daily drivers with a variety of personal changes. It's been frustrating to me that most US members here do not post pics of their car, or only one/two pics. I love to see all 1200s, show-car quality of not -- post your photos of 1200s!

Its not Aussie style, plenty of Aussies do their own 1200 in very good taste for race, street and show. Maybe BDM Bogan or Butcher domestic market. I can say more of the Aussie 1200s Ive seen from members here and in real life Ive met are very good an more than worthy of ownership by the diehards.


DD posted it up yourself not the owner, he never made an effort to advertise here. If it was an ad by the owner I would not dare post on it and totally disrespectful.

Im biased to 1Ks but regardless you cant compare Gav your 1K to this thing in finish or balance - your era choices are different but balanced. Yet for me to see the destruction of a dash like that hurts. If its an all out race car yes but for a street or show piece the butchery irritates severely.

Just came across this thread,
did someone mention fluro?
heres an interesting style,in Japan, with mostly italian cars.What would you call this style?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1_vVjYwJKQ
http://youtube.com/v/V1_vVjYwJKQ

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Mind explaining this
Please dont take my nonsense seriously ;)

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some of my Jp car buddies here also consider bad JDM cars in japlish as bakka dasain which is bakka for stupid, dasai for daggy and design added as an N after dasai.

Here is Nissans latest local bakka dasaign flop which is prob an attempt from Nissan to challenge Toytoa Rav

http://www.automotiveaddicts.com/wp-c ... 013-nissan-juke-nismo.jpg

Stupid? Those clever Nissan design engineers are crazy like a fox. In Europe, the Juke is Nissan's second best-selling car. In USA, it has sold more copies per year than the 1200 did over three years. It's been very successful.

Now if they would just paint it pastel colors with 13" wheels, it would be perfect.

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Sure.

To put it simply, sketches like the one you linked are drawn for design direction. You aren't going to get the roof the low, the wheels that big, or the windscreen that sloped.

You might get close to that if you're building a supercar with a bespoke platform and an unlimited budget, but that's not normally the case. If a designer ever sketches something like that and expects it to look the same as their sketch once it hits production they're kidding themselves. Any automotive designer can draw a nice looking image, but the good designers are the ones that produce a good looking design that can also fit on the platform. It's harder to find those designers than you'd think

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Nissan didn't even appear in the top 10 automotive manufacturers in Europe last year and the juke sold 97,538 units in 2014, which meant it was 5th in it's segment.

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The Juke sold a dismal 38,184 in the US in 2014 which meant it was 20th in it's class. For some more perspective, the number 1 seller in the Subcompact SUV market, the Honda CR-V, sold 335,019 units.

I'm a big Datsun/Nissan fan too, but let's not sell the numbers too much.

This argument is futile - no ones right or wrong - it totally subjective!

STYLING = personal TASTE

You cant tell someone that dosen't like the TASTE of tomatoes that they TASTE delicious. End of story

Thats what makes different styling so great - there's a taste for everyone


my 2 cents
dp