Estate(s) of the nation

[Skizzer]

Google translate signs this off with "The spiders, the British." and I have no idea what that means.

Loosely, ‘those crazy Brits.’ Great blog post, too.

 

Google Translate has missed that for there to be spiders involved, there would have had to have been a capital S. (And they think the Brits are crazy?)

[5speedracer]

As far a I understand it was always Nissan in Japan and Datsun in Europe until they switched to Nissan. I prefer Nissan Cedric and is what I will be referring to it as. Datsun 2000 is confusing because in the rest of the world that is what the Fairlady roadster was called.

Datsun Cedric, porn star name

 

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[tooSavvy]

.... Boogie Nights extra as 'street furniture' koolas

 

TS

[Heidel_Kakao]

Estates are so useful! I just popped down to Sunningdale Classics to buy a bicycle that I had seen in their showroom last night (video report waiting to be uploaded) and was only £75, so I purchased the bike and crazily the salesman had the same surname as me Railton which is not exactly common. We had a good natter about classic cars and I got made a cup of tea, he said to come back anytime which I certainly will do.

[Heidel_Kakao]

On the way to Sunningdale I passed the Nissan dealership so you can easily guess what then happened.

[Uncle Jimmy]

When did this model Cedric come on the scene? They remind me a bit of a mid 60s AMC Rambler.

[tooSavvy]

Railton Mobil Special... rings a bell!

 

https://goo.gl/images/A2VZps

 

LandSpeeder.. ??

 

Prefer 'Railton Datsun Special'.. An AS speciality*

 

*window stickers beckon

 

 

TS

[Junkman]

They don't have that much snow in Finland.

[Sigmund Fraud]

On the way to Sunningdale I passed the Nissan dealership so you can easily guess what then happened.

 

Swapped the Cedric for a new Micra ?

 

 

 

Thought not.

[Heidel_Kakao]

Railton Mobil Special... rings a bell!https://goo.gl/images/A2VZps

LandSpeeder.. ??

Prefer 'Railton Datsun Special'.. An AS speciality*

*window stickers beckon TS

Yeah I am not directly related to Napier Railton but I have seen the Railton Special as it's just down the road at the Think tank

[hairnet]

When did this model Cedric come on the scene? They remind me a bit of a mid 60s AMC Rambler.

first pic i saw was of the side

 

exactly what i thought

[Heidel_Kakao]

 

Just started to read through the parts catalog....

[hairnet]

did you ask nissan for any bits??

[Heidel_Kakao]

did you ask nissan for any bits??

No missed opportunity.... Will have to pop back and ask if they have some points for a 1969 Cedric, even giving the VIN would be lol worthy as it's very short compared to modern VIN's.

[Shep Shepherd]

What a superb car. Take care of it 

[D Spares & Tyres]

You are making me want to put Datsun badges on my Terrano

[Junkman]

Loosely, ‘those crazy Brits.’ Great blog post, too.

 

Google Translate has missed that for there to be spiders involved, there would have had to have been a capital S. (And they think the Brits are crazy?)

 

Spinnen (verb) means to yarn.

What does a Spinne (noun, spider in English) do?

 

Spinnen (verb) also means being bonkers.

 

"Die spinnen, die Briten" is a recurring line in the German version of the "Asterix in Britain" comic by Uderzo that made it into common folklore.

It's not a derogatory thing at all. Germans admire the British tendency to be a bit on the eccentric side.

 

'Them is spiders, them Brits' is an expression that's hitherthus firmly embroidered in my synapses, though.

[Ghosty]

https://wierus.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/finnland-kein-wintermaerchen/

 

I have had a blog post written about my adventure, too cool for words

 

Thought something seemed familiar about that blog - that's Lukas that used to post on here.

[Heidel_Kakao]

My actual car in 1971 when virtually brand new Jani has kindly written me a brief synopsis of Cedric's history as I was slightly drunk on Finnish beer when he was telling me the first time, it's pretty interesting stuff. I am going to make it my life's work to track down more old photos of Cedric!

[Heidel_Kakao]

Video report from Sunningdale Classics,as you can see I did go back the next day and buy the bicycle.

[Mrs6C]

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My actual car in 1971 when virtually brand new Jani has kindly written me a brief synopsis of Cedric's history as I was slightly drunk on Finnish beer when he was telling me the first time, it's pretty interesting stuff. I am going to make it my life's work to track down more old photos of Cedric!

Brilliant!

[Heidel_Kakao]

When did this model Cedric come on the scene? They remind me a bit of a mid 60s AMC Rambler.

2nd gen Cedric introduced 1965, mine is post facelift though and from the front at least pre and post facelift cars almost look like different models.

[Datsuncog]

Swapped the Cedric for a new Micra ?

 

 

 

Thought not.

 

"Here for the scrappage scheme, sir?"

 

 

Some shiny-suited berk at a Suzuki dealership did try that line on me in 2009 when Mrs DC was briefly interested in p/ex'ing her Yaris for a Swift. We happened to be in my Cortina when we stopped at the local dealership.

 

 

My response is probably unrepeatable on a family-friendly forum such as this.

 

We did not avail of his kind offer.

[Datsuncog]

On a more Datsun-related note, this is one of my favourite Tomica models:

 

 

 

Going by the grille, a slightly later version than yours?

 

(And I've been loving the thread, btw. Absolutely stunning adventure in the best grand tradition.)

[Heidel_Kakao]

On a more Datsun-related note, this is one of my favourite Tomica models:

 

Tomica Nissan Cedric Estate 1.jpg

 

Tomica Nissan Cedric Estate 2.jpg

 

Going by the grille, a slightly later version than yours?

 

(And I've been loving the thread, btw. Absolutely stunning adventure in the best grand tradition.)

 Looks to be the next generation, a 230 Cedric. I am not a huge Datsun expert yet though.....

[Sigmund Fraud]

"Die spinnen, die Briten" is a recurring line in the German version of the "Asterix in Britain" comic by Uderzo that made it into common folklore.

 

Arguably, it was Goscinny who wrote the text. Here's the original version :

 

 

 

And, yes, this thread is evidence that he was right (in a good way !).

[Heidel_Kakao]

 

Pez XM looks pretty cool chilling in the snow with Proton.

[bezzabsa]

Punto hasnt moved since Friday...my road is a cul de sac and hasnt been gritted and has thawed and re frozen so is a brilliant skating rink!!

[Heidel_Kakao]

 

While drifting around Sutton Park the other night I happened across the rangers 110 Defender. They have owned this from new in 1995 and I had a brief chat with one the rangers. I have fond memories as a kid of seeing this thing working all round the park so it's great it's still going strong all these years later. 200 TDI for the tractory win!

[wuvvum]

Arguably, it was Goscinny who wrote the text. Here's the original version :

 

 

 

And, yes, this thread is evidence that he was right (in a good way !).

I don't think it was Goscinny - Obelix never actually said "ils sont fous ces Anglais" in any of the Asterix books.  In the original version of Asterix in Britain, the English are referred to as "Bretons" rather than "Anglais".  He does say "ils sont fous ces Bretons" several times to be fair.

 

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