Mike
09-05-2008, 08:20 AM
09-05-2008 07:18 AM
http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/topgeardatsun.jpg Aaaand we’re back, thanks to a new hard drive (http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2008/09/02/technical-difficulties/). We’re still trying to assess the data loss but it’s likely everything since the last backup was destroyed, based on the drive’s horrible scratching noise, which sounded like a school of piranhas chewing on a blackboard. Anyway, onto more nostalgic car news.
In his most recent column for The Telegraph in response to the 100 Ugliest Cars (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2008/08/25/mfuglycars123.xml), Top Gear host James May reveals that he has just purchased a Datsun 120Y. You may know it as the B210 or Sunny, but we just call it brilliant! Here’s a guy that is among the most famous petrolheads in the world, a presenter on the number one car show in the world, and a bloke that can clearly afford any car in the world - as evidenced by the Rolls Royces and Bentleys in his stable - and he buys an old Datsun. We wonder if it’s that gorgeous black-on-lime green specimen that was on set in the GT-R episode (http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2008/07/13/top-gear-gt-r-cross-japan-challenge/) and on track as it schooled Britain’s finest (http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2007/11/27/the-stig-hoons-a-datsun/) at the hands of the Stig.
When you think about it though, May is probably the only Top Gear man who would buy a Datsun. Who else would fit the bill, Lambo-owning power-sliding Clarkson? Porsche-loving metrosexual Hammond? Not bloody likely. On the other hand, May is known as Captain Slow.
[The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2008/09/05/mrmay105.xml)]
More... (http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2008/09/05/captain-james-slow-may-datsun-owner/)
http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/topgeardatsun.jpg Aaaand we’re back, thanks to a new hard drive (http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2008/09/02/technical-difficulties/). We’re still trying to assess the data loss but it’s likely everything since the last backup was destroyed, based on the drive’s horrible scratching noise, which sounded like a school of piranhas chewing on a blackboard. Anyway, onto more nostalgic car news.
In his most recent column for The Telegraph in response to the 100 Ugliest Cars (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2008/08/25/mfuglycars123.xml), Top Gear host James May reveals that he has just purchased a Datsun 120Y. You may know it as the B210 or Sunny, but we just call it brilliant! Here’s a guy that is among the most famous petrolheads in the world, a presenter on the number one car show in the world, and a bloke that can clearly afford any car in the world - as evidenced by the Rolls Royces and Bentleys in his stable - and he buys an old Datsun. We wonder if it’s that gorgeous black-on-lime green specimen that was on set in the GT-R episode (http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2008/07/13/top-gear-gt-r-cross-japan-challenge/) and on track as it schooled Britain’s finest (http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2007/11/27/the-stig-hoons-a-datsun/) at the hands of the Stig.
When you think about it though, May is probably the only Top Gear man who would buy a Datsun. Who else would fit the bill, Lambo-owning power-sliding Clarkson? Porsche-loving metrosexual Hammond? Not bloody likely. On the other hand, May is known as Captain Slow.
[The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2008/09/05/mrmay105.xml)]
More... (http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/blog/2008/09/05/captain-james-slow-may-datsun-owner/)