My Grandma drove an r31 skyline silhouette grey over slate and I always loved that car. Eventually after owning numerous r31s I ended up inheriting it when she retired from driving. And my grandpar drove a green xc falcon wagon with a 302 Cleveland on lpg, he always used to say the windsor was only good for a boat anchor haha.
When I was a boy, I remember my grandparents driving a 1971 Buick LeSabre. If you look it up online, you'll see what I mean. Theirs was a two door hardtop coupe. I remember it being a dark green colour. It was a good car, and quite attractive, but I thought Buick should've chosen a better colour for it.
Oh that's such a fantastic car! I have a nostalgic thing for vans, as my father only drove those in the 80s and 90s... QOtD: I don't remember my grandparents driving...both grandmothers didn't have their license and my dad's father drive a baby blue 504 until he died. I was only 1 year old, so I don't remember him driving it. However my father inherited the car and I can only remember him swapping it for a 304 van in 1980 when I was one year old. My mom's father drove a Sahara yellow 2002 that, once he failed the eye sight great, was given to my mom around 1980. That car prominently stuck in my mind as the coolest car in the world
The favorite car of my grampa's was a 1974 Chrysler Imperial 2 door. They did go through many cars as my grampa was a salesman that drove all over the province racking up a few hundred thousand miles on each one.
when I was 13 we had a first gen 200b in red with cream vinyl roof and sun roof it still had independent rear end and on the next model they went to solid rear axleit had rust coming after 6months and I sware you could see though the paint in some spots we also had a short wheel base g60 patrol which as a young bloke I thought was fantastic
Ah...I remember my grandpa had two station wagons. One was a 1977 Chevy Malibu Classic Estate, the other a 1973 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser, with the tailgate that rolled down and tucked under the rear. So damn cool. We rolled that wagon a lot.
My geography and PE teacher had one of those when I started secondary school in 1983. In the UK some of them came with fake wood side trim panels like the US station wagons had. Although it was only 7 or 8 years old at the time the UK climate was already well on its way to turning the metal work to dust. Those and the saloons used to be everywhere in the UK, as did the Bluebird variants that followed it, but they're extremely rare now, and very few of these 610s made it past 10 years old, and it wasn't unusual to hear stories of owners swapping the same engine into three or four different cars, the original engines were extremely tough in the same way that the bodies weren't...
I never knew about my grandfather on my mum's side, he was never talked about as they separated. My grandfather on my dad's side drove one or maybe several ex-WW2 Willys Jeeps then a variety of incredibly battered Land Rovers for work. He did also have a MkIX Jaguar as his "Sunday car..."
Mum had a blue 200b wagon, easy to fix as well she was, I remember that after a head on with another car at low speed this bloody huge bloke just grabbed the radiator support & pulled the front end back out straight, Dad fitted some new headlights and a grill TaDa!!! All good ;-)
Great video, gorgeous little wagon (van!). QOTD: my grandparents had a 1978 Chevy Malibu and a 1983 GMC truck when I was a kid. Spent plenty of time in both.
My grandparents didn't have any notable cars, but they did have a 1988 Nissan Tsuru, which is like a Mexican Sentra, thinking about buying one of these and bringing it to the states since they are so common and every other person owns one
I have a 180b sedan here in New Zealand and my friend just sold his. His was 'blaze orange' colour. So that's probably the same colour of your parents one
My grandparents drove an audi 80, greenish, exactly like the one you completely ignored in one of the previous vids at the aussi caryard. Was a 1990 car, had 37k when I was given it, and 56k when somebody ran into us and totalled it... kinda still smelled like new after 25 years...
I've got a white 1975 wagon, second owner down here in Tassie, Australia. something else that's been modified on this one is its been converted to IRS. rolling low on a factory leaf sprung live axel tends to make the tail shaft touch the floor, as mine does also. always thought of converting to a sedan rear end
G'day mate. Sweet looking magazine. Sadly, I'm not from Japan, nor do I know how to read Japanese. I might as well be trying to read Klingon (if you watch any of the Star Trek TV shows, you'll know what I'm referring to) (laughs). Still, I love the pictures. In living colour. Sweet looking Datto wagon. Here in the USA, we had a similar Datsun, called the Datsun 610. You don't see many of these today. It's awesome when you do. :)
Why can't I find something like that to drive here in the States? It's gorgeous. My grandfather had a late 60s/early 70s Chevy C10 pick up It was a higher end Cheyenne and it was black. My grandfather loved that truck and it was always clean and waxed.
That thought was going through my head when I was preparing for this video. The 'van' was considered a commercial vehicle (of course) so didn't get cool, cool stuff. I now wish I'd taken a look.
Great looking wagon, extremely tasteful. Curious to know if it has had an IRS swap in the rear, looks a little too cambered for a solid axle and leafs. Perhaps it has a full S13 drivetrain and suspension. Grandpa drove a brown plain jane MX62 Cressida, man that was a sweet car.
According to my dad and pics my granddad had 2 Nissan z31 300zx and toyoto idk Wich model and a fairlady z from somewhere in the 90s and now he has a cube
my gram had a 1970 Oldsmobile cutlass S convertable . the car was so well known more people recognized the car than my gram . when she gave up driving my brother had the car made a few repairs sold it probably still kicks himself for that .
My grandfather drive a Austin A40 farina mk2 countryman , he bought it from is brother and driver it for more then 30 years sold it to a cop :( months before I turned 18... Never seen another one, left hand drive , the ones I see are right hand and only online... Currently the car I want in my dream garage to get first
I would love to support your channel on Patreon, but I have 3 kids attending University atm. Just sent my youngest to Tokyo, for his 3rd year! I remember 3 cars of my grandparents. 1952 Plymouth, Nash Metropolitan, can't recall the year, and a 1963 Acadian station wagon (Canada's version of the Chevy 2/Nova)
My Grandad drove a ubiquitous black Morris Minor. I remember him nearly knocking me over and my father having a go at him over it. My fault tbh. I got a bit over excited in seeing him pulling up outside.
Well,my grandmother drove an old HT Holden Belmont on my mums side which had the 161 cubic inch Holden six in it before trading it in for a Toyota Corona. Then my grandfather went behind her back & traded it in for a 1979 Mazda 626 sedan which she drove up until the beginning of 1989 after she divorced him in 1987. He drove a VJ Valiant ute up until the late 1970's then he traded that in for a Daihatsu Delta truck,then won the lottery in 1987 after the split then bought a 1988 model Ford XF Falcon ute which he had until 1990 when he traded it in for one with auto & power steering. He swapped the ute at auction for a 1997 model EL Falcon station wagon in 2000 then did that again with the EL by swapping it for a 2005 model Holden VZ Commodore in 2007 which he still drives. My grandmother drove 3 different Corollas from 1989 up until her death in 2006. On my dads side, one car my grandfather told me about that they drove was a Buick straight 8 powered Buick,the gearing was so tall that they had to reverse it up the hill where they lived. When he grew bananas up near Mullumbimby, he drove the old 42 Chevy trucks but from the 1972 him & my grandmother drove a Holden LC Torana up until 1985 I think. They traded it in for a 1983 model Holden VH Commodore which has the 173 cubic inch (2.85 litre) Holden six & M21 Aussie GM 4 speed manual transmission in it. My dad & brother towed it 700 kilometres back home after his funeral which was a week ago as he died 3 weeks ago (August 25) which was 1 month before his 98th birthday. They had it for about 34 years but couldn't drive it anymore,my grandmother isn't that far behind him at 85 years of age. The car still runs the original engine & transmission, it has done over 329,000 kilometres but doesn't appear to burn oil,it is in desperate need of a reseal. The car does need bodywork done on it as the rear end & doors reek of rust now,the handbrake also doesn't work & the car's out of rego. Someone has bodged up the EGR system by ripping all of the heater pipes out which used to screw into the cylinder heads exhaust ports. All of the vacuum hoses have been ripped off the engine as well & the EGR pipe inlet into the inlet manifold has been capped off,the heater pipe from the exhaust manifold into the air filter is also missing,the only emissions hoses that are left are the ones for the charcoal canister. So,that car needs a lot of work done to it to pass a blue slip inspection as it would obviously fail.
I seem to remember a long time ago that my grandparents had a hatchback something... and before that my granddad had a big Dodge truck... my mom had a Ford Falcon at one point in time... .but they're all dead and gone and so are their cars I'm sure
Most likely a horse and buggy. But after the horse died i call gramps driving a Humber Super Snipe, then a VL VIP Valiant and a HQ statement deville fully optioned out with 350 V8. David
i also hate when people take out the car's originality. i'm ok as long those modifications improve security or are not destructive like wheels or seats (my clear dildo shift knob on the celica lol) question of the day: i remember lots of trips with my grandparents on the celica. i even remeber the last day my grandfather drove that car. i was on the passenger seat and we went to the market to get some groceries. sorry i get a bit emotive when i talk about it. my other grandfather passed away in 93, so i didn't had the opportunity to go in the beetle nor the mercury meteor with him. we still got the beetle in perfect condition so that's good :)
@@ShellsTreasures6 I'm not a Nissan guy but always loved the 160J body shape. I saw a 200B coupe up here in QLD and did a triple take as it drove past - haven't seen one in probably 15 years. I love them for nostalgia value but not good value for money beyond being a classic runabout. I think eventually these body styles will be able to be recreated like a fibreglass body on a vw floor pan but much more advanced and cheaper to manufacture (excuse the basic description) The 180B coupe lowered on nice wheels looked good. Hope his purchase doesn't sit in a yard until rusts and sells it for 200 bucks like my old '73 GB Galant which I gave up on. Yeah it happens to us less motivated.
My Grandma drove an r31 skyline silhouette grey over slate and I always loved that car. Eventually after owning numerous r31s I ended up inheriting it when she retired from driving. And my grandpar drove a green xc falcon wagon with a 302 Cleveland on lpg, he always used to say the windsor was only good for a boat anchor haha.
When I was a boy, I remember my grandparents driving a 1971 Buick LeSabre. If you look it up online, you'll see what I mean. Theirs was a two door hardtop coupe. I remember it being a dark green colour. It was a good car, and quite attractive, but I thought Buick should've chosen a better colour for it.
Oh that's such a fantastic car! I have a nostalgic thing for vans, as my father only drove those in the 80s and 90s...
QOtD: I don't remember my grandparents driving...both grandmothers didn't have their license and my dad's father drive a baby blue 504 until he died. I was only 1 year old, so I don't remember him driving it. However my father inherited the car and I can only remember him swapping it for a 304 van in 1980 when I was one year old. My mom's father drove a Sahara yellow 2002 that, once he failed the eye sight great, was given to my mom around 1980. That car prominently stuck in my mind as the coolest car in the world
My grandparents lived in the WW2 era where they use bicycle daily, my dad had his first car a blue 70s Toyota Celica if I'm not mistaken
My grandparents had a vs commodore station wagon. I can still remember the smell that car had and the sagging roof liner.
The favorite car of my grampa's was a 1974 Chrysler Imperial 2 door. They did go through many cars as my grampa was a salesman that drove all over the province racking up a few hundred thousand miles on each one.
When I was a young boy my grandpappy had a mustang like this one. 🐎
The Datsun 180B was one of the most popular bigger cars when I worked at Vauxhall/Datsun dealers , remember repairing loads of them .
when I was 13 we had a first gen 200b in red with cream vinyl roof and sun roof it still had independent rear end and on the next model they went to solid rear axleit had rust coming after 6months and I sware you could see though the paint in some spots we also had a short wheel base g60 patrol which as a young bloke I thought was fantastic
Living in eastern Germany, my grandparents drove a Trabant - just as most people. But my grandma's dad had a Moskwitsch 407, I believe.
I had to google the Moskwitsch 407. Thanks for telling me about it.
Ah...I remember my grandpa had two station wagons. One was a 1977 Chevy Malibu Classic Estate, the other a 1973 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser, with the tailgate that rolled down and tucked under the rear. So damn cool. We rolled that wagon a lot.
Wow, cool tail-gate thingy. I just googled it. I'm impressed.
My geography and PE teacher had one of those when I started secondary school in 1983. In the UK some of them came with fake wood side trim panels like the US station wagons had. Although it was only 7 or 8 years old at the time the UK climate was already well on its way to turning the metal work to dust. Those and the saloons used to be everywhere in the UK, as did the Bluebird variants that followed it, but they're extremely rare now, and very few of these 610s made it past 10 years old, and it wasn't unusual to hear stories of owners swapping the same engine into three or four different cars, the original engines were extremely tough in the same way that the bodies weren't...
I never knew about my grandfather on my mum's side, he was never talked about as they separated. My grandfather on my dad's side drove one or maybe several ex-WW2 Willys Jeeps then a variety of incredibly battered Land Rovers for work. He did also have a MkIX Jaguar as his "Sunday car..."
My Grampa had a Fiat 500 back in the day with five kids in the back. Can you imagine that :D
Mum had a blue 200b wagon, easy to fix as well she was, I remember that after a head on with another car at low speed this bloody huge bloke just grabbed the radiator support & pulled the front end back out straight, Dad fitted some new headlights and a grill TaDa!!! All good ;-)
Haha! Drive safe
Great video, gorgeous little wagon (van!). QOTD: my grandparents had a 1978 Chevy Malibu and a 1983 GMC truck when I was a kid. Spent plenty of time in both.
Thanks, Joe. :)
My grandparents didn't have any notable cars, but they did have a 1988 Nissan Tsuru, which is like a Mexican Sentra, thinking about buying one of these and bringing it to the states since they are so common and every other person owns one
my grandparents had a blue datto 180b 4 door now my uncle has it all restored back to how it was
Such a beautiful Datsun really loving the JAF badge on the front grill
My gramps had a datsun 260c an a mazda 616...I drive a 4g63 powered mitsubishi starion..
I have a 180b sedan here in New Zealand and my friend just sold his. His was 'blaze orange' colour. So that's probably the same colour of your parents one
1963 Ford Fairlane with an inline-6. Nice big boat.
My grandparents drove an audi 80, greenish, exactly like the one you completely ignored in one of the previous vids at the aussi caryard. Was a 1990 car, had 37k when I was given it, and 56k when somebody ran into us and totalled it... kinda still smelled like new after 25 years...
Damn, sorry. I just lack the context for these cars. Nothing malicious at all. Audi never did much in Australia until more recent decades.
no problem, just it was the first car in the vid, and lateron you kinda mentioned some of the none japanese cars, but the audi 80 not, no probs...
I've got a white 1975 wagon, second owner down here in Tassie, Australia.
something else that's been modified on this one is its been converted to IRS. rolling low on a factory leaf sprung live axel tends to make the tail shaft touch the floor, as mine does also. always thought of converting to a sedan rear end
Thanks for the info. I wish I was lucky enough to have one of these myself.
When I was very young, my grandad had a beige XA Ford Falcon 500, with brown vinyl interior.
Nice. I do like the styling of the XA
G'day mate. Sweet looking magazine. Sadly, I'm not from Japan, nor do I know how to read Japanese. I might as well be trying to read Klingon (if you watch any of the Star Trek TV shows, you'll know what I'm referring to) (laughs). Still, I love the pictures. In living colour. Sweet looking Datto wagon. Here in the USA, we had a similar Datsun, called the Datsun 610. You don't see many of these today. It's awesome when you do. :)
my grandfather had a Skoda 130. Was white, pretty rusty as far as I remember, but it was cool none the less
my grands had a datsun 120y then a b310 sunny sedan! gday from tasmania!!
That book on Japanese cars looks awesome!
It looks like they might have swapped an IRS in the rear looks super killer always loved this car.
I'll poke my head under the rear next time
My grandparents had a Mercedes a class and an 03 Mazda 323
Yea I'm kind of too young to remember them driving anything interesting
Hi Dan....my grandpa had a DKW 1000 and a DKW 3 = 6
My father had a datsun 160 j sss in 1978 two doors look cool in thos times.
Why can't I find something like that to drive here in the States? It's gorgeous. My grandfather had a late 60s/early 70s Chevy C10 pick up It was a higher end Cheyenne and it was black. My grandfather loved that truck and it was always clean and waxed.
nice :D my grandpa had several wartburg 353's, one of them was a first car i ever drove on my own when i was like 9 hahaha
Awesome car and funny as vid ! Nice work. Grandad on mums side valiant ranger. Grandad on dads honda city non turnbo unfortunately.
Our 610 wagon or 'estate' had a solid rear axle, I guess they came with independent rear in Japan and probably OZ.
That thought was going through my head when I was preparing for this video. The 'van' was considered a commercial vehicle (of course) so didn't get cool, cool stuff. I now wish I'd taken a look.
"there's no parts" so true for my 1980 bluebird wagon.
Sad but true. People's desire for always new cars causes problems such as those.
Great looking wagon, extremely tasteful. Curious to know if it has had an IRS swap in the rear, looks a little too cambered for a solid axle and leafs. Perhaps it has a full S13 drivetrain and suspension.
Grandpa drove a brown plain jane MX62 Cressida, man that was a sweet car.
According to my dad and pics my granddad had 2 Nissan z31 300zx and toyoto idk Wich model and a fairlady z from somewhere in the 90s and now he has a cube
This thing is beautiful!
Convert that SR to carby and it'd be mint!
QOTD: My Grandpa had a VN Commodore wagon. Interestingly, it was manual - pretty rare for a Commo wagon.
Nice. Yes, I don't recall seeing many manual Commodores at all.
my gram had a 1970 Oldsmobile cutlass S convertable . the car was so well known more people recognized the car than my gram . when she gave up driving my brother had the car made a few repairs sold it probably still kicks himself for that .
My grandfather drive a Austin A40 farina mk2 countryman , he bought it from is brother and driver it for more then 30 years sold it to a cop :( months before I turned 18... Never seen another one, left hand drive , the ones I see are right hand and only online... Currently the car I want in my dream garage to get first
Damn. Sold it out from under you. :(
I would love to support your channel on Patreon, but I have 3 kids attending University atm. Just sent my youngest to Tokyo, for his 3rd year! I remember 3 cars of my grandparents. 1952 Plymouth, Nash Metropolitan, can't recall the year, and a 1963 Acadian station wagon (Canada's version of the Chevy 2/Nova)
You keep sending him to Tokyo and he always manages to find his way back? Maybe a different country next time? Lol. ;-)
My grandfather drove a chocolate brown EH Holden with a 149 three on the tree.
My Grandad drove a ubiquitous black Morris Minor. I remember him nearly knocking me over and my father having a go at him over it. My fault tbh. I got a bit over excited in seeing him pulling up outside.
Well, good that you survived to tell the tale. :)
Well,my grandmother drove an old HT Holden Belmont on my mums side which had the 161 cubic inch Holden six in it before trading it in for a Toyota Corona.
Then my grandfather went behind her back & traded it in for a 1979 Mazda 626 sedan which she drove up until the beginning of 1989 after she divorced him in 1987.
He drove a VJ Valiant ute up until the late 1970's then he traded that in for a Daihatsu Delta truck,then won the lottery in 1987 after the split then bought a 1988 model Ford XF Falcon ute which he had until 1990 when he traded it in for one with auto & power steering.
He swapped the ute at auction for a 1997 model EL Falcon station wagon in 2000 then did that again with the EL by swapping it for a 2005 model Holden VZ Commodore in 2007 which he still drives.
My grandmother drove 3 different Corollas from 1989 up until her death in 2006.
On my dads side, one car my grandfather told me about that they drove was a Buick straight 8 powered Buick,the gearing was so tall that they had to reverse it up the hill where they lived.
When he grew bananas up near Mullumbimby, he drove the old 42 Chevy trucks but from the 1972 him & my grandmother drove a Holden LC Torana up until 1985 I think.
They traded it in for a 1983 model Holden VH Commodore which has the 173 cubic inch (2.85 litre) Holden six & M21 Aussie GM 4 speed manual transmission in it.
My dad & brother towed it 700 kilometres back home after his funeral which was a week ago as he died 3 weeks ago (August 25) which was 1 month before his 98th birthday.
They had it for about 34 years but couldn't drive it anymore,my grandmother isn't that far behind him at 85 years of age.
The car still runs the original engine & transmission, it has done over 329,000 kilometres but doesn't appear to burn oil,it is in desperate need of a reseal.
The car does need bodywork done on it as the rear end & doors reek of rust now,the handbrake also doesn't work & the car's out of rego.
Someone has bodged up the EGR system by ripping all of the heater pipes out which used to screw into the cylinder heads exhaust ports.
All of the vacuum hoses have been ripped off the engine as well & the EGR pipe inlet into the inlet manifold has been capped off,the heater pipe from the exhaust manifold into the air filter is also missing,the only emissions hoses that are left are the ones for the charcoal canister.
So,that car needs a lot of work done to it to pass a blue slip inspection as it would obviously fail.
Wow i never these type of a old japan cars so cool
QOTD : Grandparents had a diverse collection of cars. Morris, Alfa 124, Holden Commodore, Toyota Crown, Ford Galaxy, Jeep Willys.
I saw V for van datto.
Hehe ;-)
My grandparents had a Dodge Spirit Turbo and a Dodge ram 50 pickup truck which was s rebadged Mitsubishi Strada
My grandpa had -85 Nissan Cherry.
We had them in the UK
I seem to remember a long time ago that my grandparents had a hatchback something... and before that my granddad had a big Dodge truck... my mom had a Ford Falcon at one point in time... .but they're all dead and gone and so are their cars I'm sure
My grandparent drove a Opel Kadett C 1300, and I drove it on is lap with only 8 years old.
Nice :)
How does it get the stance on its rear wheels? Is it independent suspension?
my grandad had a Honda Cub90 that i now own!
Your QOTD made me realise I knew nothing about my grandparents
Oh. I'm only halfway there. Never met a granddad
One grandfather drove a Mk1 Ford Cortina the other drove a Jaguar S Type.
My grandparents had a hillman hunter.
Grandpa's car.. Humber Super Snipe. Beat that!
+stevemonkey6666 Now that's a proper Grandpa car...
Most likely a horse and buggy. But after the horse died i call gramps driving a Humber Super Snipe, then a VL VIP Valiant and a HQ statement deville fully optioned out with 350 V8. David
Omg, I do like the idea of a 350 HQ Statesman.
My father Subaru FF1 Station Wagon
i also hate when people take out the car's originality. i'm ok as long those modifications improve security or are not destructive like wheels or seats (my clear dildo shift knob on the celica lol)
question of the day: i remember lots of trips with my grandparents on the celica. i even remeber the last day my grandfather drove that car. i was on the passenger seat and we went to the market to get some groceries. sorry i get a bit emotive when i talk about it. my other grandfather passed away in 93, so i didn't had the opportunity to go in the beetle nor the mercury meteor with him. we still got the beetle in perfect condition so that's good :)
My grandparents had a donkey.
my grandparents drove an anorexic mule attached to a home made wagon cart on 24's.
Master Chef critique....lol.
It's me on a plate. ;-)
Fuck all 180B Wagons getting around Australia. Would have preferred a VG30T under the bonnet. You trying to be funny or what O'Grady?
Oh, I was trying way too hard. We both know it.
Too right! My son just purchased one, but I can't remember seeing a wagon version, ever....!
@@ShellsTreasures6 I'm not a Nissan guy but always loved the 160J body shape. I saw a 200B coupe up here in QLD and did a triple take as it drove past - haven't seen one in probably 15 years. I love them for nostalgia value but not good value for money beyond being a classic runabout. I think eventually these body styles will be able to be recreated like a fibreglass body on a vw floor pan but much more advanced and cheaper to manufacture (excuse the basic description) The 180B coupe lowered on nice wheels looked good. Hope his purchase doesn't sit in a yard until rusts and sells it for 200 bucks like my old '73 GB Galant which I gave up on. Yeah it happens to us less motivated.
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