"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddollnofeckingspam1958@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:gcoktt.4ec.1@news.evilcabal.org...
> "Bruce L. Bergman"
> "Cathy F."
> wrote:
>>>"Wickeddoll®"
>>>> Nissan used to be Datsun, wasn't it?
>>>
>>>Yep, I had a little Datsun B-210 from '76-84.
>>
>> Mine was the 4-speed Hatchback in the horrid, almost fluorescent
>> "Lemon-Lime Yellow".

Mine was a sedan in a nice dark blue, also 4-speed. Car before it was a
3-speed, so no trying to shift up from 4th.

>>
>> If I had a nickel for every time I tried to shift into fifth...
>>
>> Ran the wheels off that little car as only a teenager could, and
>> except for the carburetor mainshaft getting so sloppy the carb had to
>> be replaced nothing else broke.

The gas line kept clogging - had 3 filters along the line, but that didn't
really solve the problem. Car would stall out at full stops -although always
immeduiately started again. But a PITA. Other than that, & the fact it was
spartan - but affordable! - I liked it. Was cute. IMO.

>> I think I smoked one alternator with the two-way radio load. They
>> didn't plan on people running a 50W MOTRAN and a light-bar in a
>> compact.
>>
>> And it wasn't the last time or last car I had that problem...
>>
>> --<< Bruce >>--
>>
> Dat son of a gun! Remember that lame ad?

Nope! OTOH, I didn't watch much TV while in college ('68 - '72), & then
didn't own a TV until... '76 or '77 maybe?

Cathy


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