1977 was one of the years of Peak Wagon in the United States, a year in which vehicle customers right here can select among 47 various designs of station wagon (the wagon matter for 1964 was 47 too). The selections were somewhat diminished in 1978, however we were still in the Golden Age of Japanese station wagons here during that time. Toyota offered Americans 3 wagon choices for ’78 (Cressida, Corona, Corolla) as well as Nissan was right there with the Datsun 810, 510 and F-10. Below’s one of those all-but-extinct 510 wagons, located in a self-service backyard near Sacramento, California.
Nissan played reckless with US-market Datsun model names during the 1970s and also into the 1980s, so today’s Junkyard Gem isn’t connected to the famous 510s of the late 1960s and very early 1970s. This car is an A10 wagon, known as the Nissan Violet Van or Auster Van in its homeland. The original 510(based on the internal classification Nissan appointed to the 1967-1973 Bluebird)was such a success in the United States that Nissan just reused the name for the variation of the A10 Violet offered here for the 1978 via 1981 version years. Things got back at a lot more complicated with the 810 a bit later, when it developed into the Datsun 810 Maxima, then the Datsun Maxima by Nissan, as well as lastly the Nissan Maxima. The generation of Violet after this one was marketed below as the Datsun(and then Nissan)Stanza, however do not mix up the Prairie-based Stanza Wagon with the Stanza car!.?.!! Eventually, the Altima changed the Stanza and also the Nissan Violet was no more. This wagon has correct rear-wheel-drive, like the original 510, as well as it included a proper L20 1,952 cc four-cylinder engine. This one had the cyndrical tube head and all devices pulled off years(most likely decades)earlier, however you can still see some bits showing that expensive($580, or$2,765 in inflation-adjusted 2022 bucks )air conditioning was mounted.
The $250($1,190 today)transmission is right here as well. Base price on this cars and truck was$5,759, or regarding$27,460 today. The manufacturing facility Datsun AM/FM radio is still there. It appears that this cars and truck damaged down several years back as well as spent a long time wearing away outside. The six-digit odometer might be revealing 78,033 miles … or many, a lot more miles. We’ll never recognize. By the criteria of 1970s Japanese automobiles, the corrosion on this one isn’t so poor. Still, enthusiasts don’t seem to care much for the A10 Violet, so it was unlikely that this vehicle had much chance of avoiding its junkyard destiny.
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