hey guys, i think your new word for the week is aussie slang...

(even if half of u guys aren't aussie )

Now I thought Old School Datsun (or whatever else) is where you run the standard or around the era engine except it could be worked like cams an all. eg. Datsun 1200 Coupe with Twin Webered ported to the max, worked cams, beautiful paint, restored factory interior, lowered with polished old school 12 inch or 13 inch mags. mmmm sounds real nice well thats my view....

Well I still think that old school is what you make it. Here there are sooooooo many different idea's on what is or is not old school.

My very first car was a Datsun 1200, I got it when I was 16 and thats when my love affair started.

It really comes down to what the person thinks weather others like it or not. Everyone has there view on what is or is not and to see all the different views on this tread is great!!! Because I think that it has changed my own view on what is old school and what is retro-tech.

Now I am thinking that my 1200 will be come retro-tech, as I like that saying more and more!!! lol

Blair

My thoughts are that old skool is working with technology produced within the years of the car. I have the upmost respect for the datsun enthusiast working with 1970's performance technology and turnng out a show stopper.

I hope one day to do this. As a Datsun enthusiast it is a road not yet travelled.

Actually I have never driven a Datsun - except a 720 ute and being pushed in my 1200. So I better finish the CA 1200, experience that and then get into webbers, cams and the like.

Yes I'm serious
Jarrad

to answer your question from before datto dude... im 18 and my parents and reletives etc never owned dattos as far as i know. i just love the look of them, there different to see on the road around here plus one of the biggest points with most of them..... light weight. i dont understand why people want big v8 donks? dont stop, dont turn etc? i just love dattos and have owned a few already

I agree with that lot

For a 1200..oldschool means pushrods. Except for L18_B110.

I'm more of a "sleeper/retrotech" 1200 person

I'm not right.. I'm just different....As are most Datsun owners.

Chris

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In Aus, we didn't see any EFI Datsuns until the R30 Skyline of the early 80s. Twin sidedraughts will out perform a factory plenumn style EFI system anyway...

Old school is about using modifications of the era. No question about it. If you think it means something else, that's simply because you don't know what it means......if you know what I mean...
People misuse words all the time, eg "ignorant" is not the past participle used to describe someone who ignored you.

If its got a twin cam multivalve engine from a completely different era, it simply isn't old school. As pro-240c said, old cars with classic styling and modern engines are known as 'retrotech'. They are a different style of car built by people using a different philosophy. It's great that they are sympathetic to the styling of the classic car they modify, but their completey different philosophy towards what they want from the powerplant is a massive departure from the old school philosophy, and should be recognised as a different thing.

If you throw all that hi-tech EFi and computer junk off it and run carbs on the CA or SR that's cool, but it still ain't old school. When I line up on the track beside a SR20 powered 120Y with twin carbs, there's only one of us out there doing it the old school way...

woodydat, before you bash someone else, think about yourself:Quote:You're wrong this time. One dictionary was already quoted in this thread when you wrote that.

But ... just because it's in the dictionary, we don't have to consider the usage of the word fixed. It can be whatever we want it to be! There IS meaning if two people understand the context, even if we use the word differently from the dictionary. That's why they keep adding 1. 2. 3. etc definitions to the same word. English evolves.

Good ideas in this thread. It's good to hear the different visions people have when they hear the phrase "old school".

old school is taking something old and mixing it with something new, like old school adidas shoes came back a few years ago, however you didnt see people walking the streets in some 70's get up, they wore the same clothes just some 'old school' shoes, same thing with trucker hats these days and hip hop using old school beats mixed with new lyrics.
So therefore all dattos are old school, and they are to me.
My classifications are made like- ricer, sleeper, drift, circuit, modern (new wheels, seats, stearing wheel, full sick cream interior), concourse, daily driven, weekend worrior.
You cant screw up doing your datto up in an old school style as you are driving an old school car

One note of clarification...

Several have said "only using period correct speed parts". Well, then by that token wouldn't using EFI from a 75-76 Datto be "allowed"? It's period correct?

Personally, I don't think an SR20 keeps it from being "old school", but you better keep the outside stock looking! No body kits!