I concur that the only eskys are 2 doors that are worth mentioning,
as for old dattos disappearing its definitely an issue but its time
we see the old craft of making your own body from alloy or crafty
specialist hand skills in the youth of the future.
Today the bigger issue is the loss of hand skills which is easily noted
or seen when you compare the 1919 monocar and todays effort of that
particular vehicle. Be great to see artisan skills back like yesteryear

Who knows maybe 3d printing will see all alloy/compsite datto coupes
as projects for Dad and sons of the future :)

You mentioned the going price of a good stock 1200 sedan in NZ. I stated that it was far from stock. I also mentioned H160 because of what the advertisement mentioned, i'm well aware it's a H165. I would understand if it were an imported GX-5, or a PB110, at least. The 1200 is not seen in the same light as a 510, or S30.

I think that you Aussies are somewhat spoilt over there at present and should probably make hay while the sun still shines and stock up. The horse has well and truly bolted over here in NZ as far as prices go- as I said before IF you could find a nice stock B110 you would be paying around $8000, coupes even more.
In fact it is getting that bad over here that I am seriously questioning the wisdom of continuing to race my SSS in case it gets a big serve and the potential issues trying to get decent body panels or at worst a new shell.
For what its worth I do believe that the best price that someone is ever going to pay over here is not for a stock standard SSS, but a tastefully modified ( to period) competitive example that still stays true to its original'concept' which indeed was still a production race car.
Cheers
Dave

If this guy is serious and gets his 18k(or there abouts)I may think about filling a couple of containers and sending them to australia.s eastern island to flog it all off.
I should get enough dough to pay cash for a water front property on the mainland

fair enough for 4 door escorts - they are righfully unloved :P
I assumed the Escort Sport was a 2 door, and I sort of instantly think 2 doors when people say 'Escort'

the only valuable eskys are tudors so comparisons between
a 4 door 1200 and 4 door esky is well founded but still
is dreaming to price a 4 door 1200 for that

I can see both sides of the argument, but to me a replica needs to be original spec not a highly modified road racer. If all it takes is twin sidies, there's a million SSS replicas out there, just missing a couple of squares of black paint.

On the Escort comparison, anytime there's an iconic/hero/high performance version of a car, that increases the prices of the base model versions. You see it with Escorts, old Mazda 808s, Capellas, Datsun 240Ks, etc. Maybe there's something of that in NZ due to their local 1200 SSS variant, or maybe he's just trying to cash in on the cred gained by Murph owning one? :P Really, even the JDM GX5 isn't a hero model imo. Maybe to the Japanese who grew up watching TS Cup, but it has next to no exposure internationally. Nothing like the Escorts.
In Aus, there's definitely no comparing the value of a 1200 to an Escort! The only thing driving 1200 prices up here is the big dollars people spend on CA/SR street machines, the old school JDM craze, or trying to ride the coat tails of 240K and Zed prices...

Quote:That's what an SSS is: a modded A12 engine with a cosmetic package. It was a difficult sell in 1973 (only sold about 800 units), but it's one of the great Datsun specials

c. 1974: Datsun 1200 SSS at the "Shell 200" race

1) No one ever implied it was stock- it is being sold as a competitive and sorted race car
2) The add actually states its got an H160 (165 )complete with Nismo LSD
3) Saying the 1200 'isn't exactly iconic or well known in comparison to the S30 or 510 '- maybe in the US market but I would seriously beg to differ on that opinion in other markets.
4) I would have thought an Escort Sport would have been an excellent example for a price comparison- what on earth do you think an Escort is if not Ford's cheap, mass built economy car of the 1970's? The only Escort that is afforded 'iconic' status is the BDA and they are selling for well over $100,000 NZ- going rate for a 'new'replica is around $150,000.

Of course you are entitled to your opinion, just as everyone else is on this forum and time will tell whether or not you are right but what I can tell you is that Feral Errol was of the opinion that the 1200's that would be worth the most in the future was those with A series engines, essentially unmolested and this car, a very good replica of a model that only 850 odd units were ever produced, fits into that category nicely.

Dave

It's far from stock - there's no H160 either to my knowledge. The 1200 isn't exactly well-known and iconic in comparison to the S30 and 510, and it's pointless and unrealistic to compare it to a MKII Escort. The 1200 is a cheap, mass-built economy car, they'll never sell for close to the aforementioned. Not being hard on it, it's a faultless car. But I can't see it selling for that much, or any time soon at least.