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This is my datsun truck. It is a short bed with the extended cab. I had to replace
all of the brake lines. I had to take out the bench seat and bolt in seats from a 91 plymouth. I also had to put in a
new temp gauge. The factory gauge no longer worked and I rewired the radio so I could listen to it without having
the swich in the "on" position. Other than that, it is pretty much stock. Look for updates as I finish this project.
ORIGIN OF THE DATSUN:
In 1911 Hashimoto Masujiro, an engineer trained in the United States, started a car company
called Kwaishinsha Motor Car Works in Tokyo. The company completed its first car in 1914. Hashimoto named it DAT, an acronym
formed from the first letters of the surnames of his three major investors: Den Kenjiro, Aoyama Rokuro, and Takeuchi Meitaro.
The company changed its name to DAT Motors in 1925. The following year it merged with Jitsuyo Motors, a maker of three-wheeled
vehicles. The new company introduced an improved small car in 1931 and called it the Datson, meaning "son of DAT" in English.
In 1958 it began exporting cars to the United States under the Datsun name, and in 1960
the company established a U.S. subsidiary. In 1966 it introduced the Datsun Sunny, a small car that became very popular in
Japan. The company's 240Z, a snazzy, bullet-shaped sports car introduced in the United States in 1969, represented a break
from Nissan's line of basic compact cars and trucks. The Z line became a popular series of cars in the United States and elsewhere.
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