Sometimes, I get the urge to do something. I get the feeling I know I'm in for heartache and pain, but I do it anyways.

Here is my story.

For some reason, I decided it would be fun to look online for a Datsun 1200. I figured, "hey! They're old and I doubt there's some kind of crazy black hole of the darn things. I bet I could find one for a couple hundred bucks. That'd be awesome!"

I was incredibly peeved to discover the absolute dearth of 1200s/B110s online. Almost a famine of 1200s. And this, ladies and gents, is when passing interest became outright obsession.

Allow me to explain why this is important.

My father, many the year ago, did cross-country rallies. His vehicle of choice? A Datsun 1200. I remember that car. I remember sneaking into the garage as a young boy and pretending to drive that car at high speed.

When my parents divorced, for some inexplicable reason, my mother got possession of the 1200. My older sister ended up driving it until it failed to start one day on the street out front of our apartment.

Neither my sister nor my mother bothered to move it to the parking lot or get it running. Anything. It got ticketed and impounded.

My father and my brother teamed up to try and buy the 1200 at auction. It was all in vain. They failed.

And thus, here I am. I have a damn itch I can't scratch. I've looked at every single listing on Craigslist, for every state and city in the US and some in Canada.
I have saved searches on Ebay US, UK, CA, and AUS. (I don't have the vaguest idea what I would do if I won an auction in the UK or AUS).

I have this site's classified section on RSS so I can know, within moments of a post on that forum.

And yet...I still have come up virtually 1200-less.

So I ask: Where the hell are they? Where do you find a 1200? Even one that may need work. I have to know. My new obsession will not leave me in peace unless I either succeed or can legitimately claim that success is unattainable.

I'd LOVE to hear from you.