buy ? I think it might be a danny ocean job.

Rumour has it that one of the 20 Aussie-assembled Datsuns circa 1936 still survives ... track it down and offer to buy the rabbit mascot

There is not likely to be one in Australia unless someone has brought one into the country in recent times.

As far as I can tell, we didn't see a Datsun car in Australia before about 1958.

yeah i know it wasn't in 1930 i meant in the 1930's ohwel yeah id love to see one. Pretty rare but someone must have one

Even rarer than that -- about as rare as rabbit's beaks.

Business Week implies the rabbit emblem in question was designed for the 2nd gen 1935 Datsun. Nissan made 2,631 cars that year, and less cars the next year.

"Rabbit" was a potential translation for "dat", meaning the DAT car starting in 1914. They probably made less than 2,000 DAT cars over 20 years. In 1934 Nissan made only 650 cars.

Rabbit: 兎
DAT Car: 脱兎

By the way, the first Datson was 1931, then changed to Datsun in 1933 when Nissan bought out DAT Motors. So there was no "1930 Datsun". See club wiki: Datsun History



Nissan Global History


Google search: ダットサン　富谷　兎 - read more about it



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i am going to take a wild guess that these are about as rare as hens teeth to find?

if on the oddest of chances i ever found one i would think about putting in on to one of our dattos but wouldnt know which one!!!!

Thank you thats awsome. I started reading datsun history last night and was amazed how much they had.
Thank you again

Yeah.. I want one!

The "Datsun 14" had it..




The Rabbit was used for the 'Datto' Translation.

Also:

Another website with a photo BusinessWeek

I think i remember seeing it on the net somewhere a while ago. Ive just tried to find it on datsunhistory.com but no luck... donno where i saw it before.

Google coupled with bablefish may be your friend!

hey guys im chasing a picture of the rabbit badge I heard about it and would love to know if anyone has one or could send me a picture.
I believe it was in the 1930 era's of datos
Cheers
Todd
datrat_87@hotmail.com