sad,

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 21st February 2009, 02:45 PM

was looking in the 4 sales of a few (australian) off road sites the other night

and found my old race car,, advertised as " and a spare car" in one of the adds,, so you can imagine what condition it was in

and some idiot had painted it green,,

it just looked so sad,,,

**Sprint** · 21st February 2009, 03:00 PM

what was it?

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 21st February 2009, 03:20 PM

sigh,, so many good times,,

and some slow ones

**pop058** · 21st February 2009, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

sigh,, so many good times,,

and some slow ones

Ah! a P510, now that bring a few memories back.

paul

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 21st February 2009, 04:30 PM

mine actually HAD a proper (well, american--)P510 badge on the boot lid,,

should've kept it

**pop058** · 21st February 2009, 04:52 PM

i will have a dig around and see if I can find some pics of my old girl. A mate also had one and I am sure I have pics of his too

paul

**Olive Drab** · 21st February 2009, 06:42 PM

I'm a sucker for any kind of motorsport. What is this car and what class was it raced in?
cheers
Jason

I wanna be a racing car driver when i grow up.
i just can't bring myself to grow up though.

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 21st February 2009, 07:08 PM

"What" has already been stated,,

but from hmm, let me count backwards,,,

'87 to, er, '01 it raced in a CAMS class called "2WD Production Enduro" a bit in NSW, a bit in QLD and one in SA

the car won the NSW state rally championship in '86
and I won the QLD Off Road Short Course title in '93

I only stopped because of a stress problem with my eye,,
sold the car, bought a boat , changed jobs, went fishing for a couple of years.

Still navigating in this-

The Dato was only ever a bit of fun,,
after riding with someone that can really pedal, I understood that early,, but,, I still miss 591,, most of my car control came from doing the hard yards,, 3-400 racing kays in a day teaches you lots of things,, and I felt most of them thru the seat of my pants,,

**pop058** · 21st February 2009, 07:37 PM

Just to clarify it. It's more common name is a "Datsun 1600" The model (like most Dato's) is a series of numbers and letter/s. Eg. 180B, 120Y, 260C, 720 (ute) and, more recently 350Z. The 1600 was not commonly known (outside of motorsport) as the P510 (1600cc) and (the less common 1800cc) H510.
Nostalga has got me, so I will try and dig out some old memories.

paul

**DiscoDan** · 24th February 2009, 06:55 PM

I thought it was a Datto 1600, a mate use to rally one up here in Qld. (since moved back to NZ and now rallys a Datto 180b sss two door( sorry don't know correct names) )

Thanks for the info on the correct name.

Danny

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