my mom bought me a truck for $50

You'll probably like this link:

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/12/curbside-classics-the-first-mini-pickups-datsuns-1964-320-1200-1967-520-1300-1969-521-1600/

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fiasco
You'll probably like this link:

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/12/curbside-classics-the-first-mini-pickups-datsuns-1964-320-1200-1967-520-1300-1969-521-1600/

thanks for the link, I will read that

however, there is ths sportstruck version (unibody and much cutier imo) of one of these at my mom's place (used to be mine) it's a 64 and it needs some bodywork

I like it!

Welcome to the Nissan club!

We had a 320 down at DeWees Datsun for a shop truck. There was a sign on the door proclaiming over 300k on the clock. That was true but the engine had been rebuilt several times. Great trucks if the metal worms didn't get to them.

That truck looks way too nice to be in the pucker bushes, the wheels are still decent. What is the story?

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MikeColangelo
I like it!

Welcome to the Nissan club!

Oh Mike, I've been part of the Datsun/Nissan club since I was born and I've already got a 69 1600 that's wishing I wasn't so lazy and would finish restoring it. Eventually it'll get hauled from mom's over to my place, but it's low on the project list. I've had two of the little sportstrucks (one got hit by a camaro, and the other one is still at mom's, also somewhere on the project list waiting bodywork), a 510 wagon, a 1200 w/trunk, a later model 510, maxima wagon and not sure what else right now, lol.

Here's me and mom when I was a tiny lass

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We had a 320 down at DeWees Datsun for a shop truck. There was a sign on the door proclaiming over 300k on the clock. That was true but the engine had been rebuilt several times. Great trucks if the metal worms didn't get to them.

That truck looks way too nice to be in the pucker bushes, the wheels are still decent. What is the story?

From what I was told my mom's friend's friends are both cops and when it was left abandoned in impound they took it home. They then sold it to that friend's renter. The renter was going to this that and whatever else to it and never did. When he moved out, he owed her money and left it sitting on her property behind the rental house which is also behind her house and told her she could have it. She runs a horse ranch and had no use for a little purple datsun that doesn't run. The plates expired in 96, so it's probably been sitting out there since then. They've kept it mostly out of the vines the entire time, and for a long time it had a tarp on it. This last year is the first year it's been completely covered in vines.

Engine bay pics!

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Anders Green
Engine bay pics!

Hey, I know where there's an AUTEC SR20 with rwd gearbox available....200+ NA hp in that thing would be, well, interesting!

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Anders Green
Engine bay pics!

ha, if I'm ever home in the daylight again I'll try to remember

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Anders Green
Engine bay pics!

Hey, I know where there's an AUTEC SR20 with rwd gearbox available....200+ NA hp in that thing would be, well, interesting!

for free? and local to me?

No, and hell no! But it sure would be interesting, in a stupid sort of way.