Datsun Cherry Coupe - feel the lerrrrrve

[Guest]

Apols if this chodtastic vehicle is already on the ebay thread or elsewhere, but I just wanted to express my deep and undying love for this primo slice of late 70s Nippon Shite.

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170874172021&clk_rvr_id=363706920483#ht_1769wt_1189

[Shep Shepherd]

When I was growing up in Kent, my next door neighbour's daughter had a yellow X-reg one of those for years and years

[sporty-shite]

I had one of these as my first car. Dogleg first FTW!!

 

[Guest]

With that Ferrari stylee gearbox, and an engine bay that is pretty much empty, it would naturally make sense to pick up a cheap Ferrari V27 or something engine for a tenner on eBay and drop it right in there. Job, as they say, jobbed.

[Guest]

Feck me, I have only just noticed the deep shag pile carpets. They have just got to be full of Win (or mildew).

[Cavcraft]

Hey, never mind carpets, let's see some pictures of your FS1E instead.

[Guest]

I actually have two Fizzies, one of which is for sale. I bought one for my brother for his 50th birthday, but he has nowhere to keep it.

 

The red one (1977, pedals, disc brake), I am keeping. The wineberry one (1979, no pedals, shown being maintained by Buddha) is for sale on Car and Classic and Pistonheads. Note that the red one is narrowly beating the barbecue away from the lights, but it's a close contest.

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

 

 

[Cavcraft]

Fark me vicar, they're well fit. What sort of money are they fetching these days and can you confirm that they really do 73mph up hill as everyone claimed back in the day?!!

[Guest]

Only if you have eaten chips bought from a van, and have some Doris hanging off the back.

 

I once saw 35 mph on mine, but I am not sure, as my eyes were squeezed tight shut in terror. James May proved on the telly that by changing the plug, fecking aboot with the exhaust, and inverting the handle bars, you can squeeze another, oh, 1-2 mph out of the beasts.

 

Purple and yellow ones can go for £3,000 to £4,000, I kid you not. I reckon that mine, which are restored and minty, might be worth 2K or so.

[gtd2000]

Billy, I had 56MPH down a hill, head on the tank with mine (JSH 661 P) and it would do 46MPH on a very slight incline - these were "indicated speeds" of course.

 

After the piston shattered and the bike was rebuilt, it never did much more than 40MPH on the flat.

[Cavcraft]

To be fair they clearly did do over 30mph, it's just that circa 1978/9 the 'cool' kids at school had them and all claimed higly dubious top speeds.

[gtd2000]

Yeah I think the cut off year was around '76 for un-restricted, or was it '77 that the restricted 50's came in?

 

I know that pretty much anything newer than mine was much slower by a fairly large margin (relatively speaking).

 

My mate Moray had a Honda C50 with an N reg plate that would hit 50MPH and did far more MPG than the Fizzy.

 

Didn't look anywhere near as cool but it was pretty nippy and economical.

 

Another pal, "Percy", had an SS 50 with a C70 engine fitted that was pretty quick for a "50cc"

[Guest]

At last some people who know Fizzies, I had a Fizzie Custom, no-one bloody believes it ever existed!!!! Looked like a SR125 type thing! Two tier seat and cow horn bars, black and chrome.

Help! I wasn't imagining it in my *&£*(£% addled youth!!!???

[scaryoldcortina]

I remember them. We used to call them Fizzie Chickens.

[Cavcraft]

Bell rang, Google searched...

 

 

Anyone remember Suzuki's OR50 Custom?

 

 

These were TINY little things and I still recall a few of us seeing one for the first time and laughing our bollocks off in the showroom.

[gtd2000]

Suzuki did a custom 50CC that one of my pals had

 

[Guest]

Phew Thanks SCary and Cavette - that Suzuki OR50 looks very like that mental Fantic thing with the airbrushed looking ribbons on it - looked like a bike version of John Bonham's C cab.

 

Anyone else think Suzuki were a tad lazy in the wheel dept? These two ^ same wheels, X1 X5 X7 the GS range all had the same cross spoke wheels!

[Captain2Stroke]

Sport mopeds didn't motivate me enough to save up / beg parents to buy me one, instead went for the alternative street cred of a £30 NSU Quickly - set the scene for things to come really!

 

[Cavcraft]

Aye, pretty sure my X5 had those wheels. Suzuki made some damned good strokers back in the day but sadly many were overlooked by the 'Yamaha or nothing' boys. The TS trailes, X5 and X7 road bikes and the old triples were great fun. I have to confess I nearly got put off for life after test riding my mate's X7 which tried to throw me off for daring to ride it in the wet over a metal grid in the road.

[gtd2000]

You can see the wheel type on my X7 here:

 

[Guest]

Houly fecque - the Datsun chodmobile sold for 1120.

[HillmanImp]

Houly fecque - the Datsun chodmobile sold for 1120.

 

If it is the same one off C&C then I think that is not far off what they were asking on there so a bit of a result for them. Just shows Ebay is not a last resort.

[junkyarddog]

Now residing in Ireland.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/3691078