We saw a 1975 Datsun B210 hatchback Junkyard Find a few weeks back, and this ’74 B210 hatch about a year ago. Today, we’ll look at a fairly solid example of the B210 coupe. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1970s, 1978, 1978 Datsun B210, Datsun, Datsun B210, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, junkyard, Junkyard Find, Malaise, Malaise Era, Nissan, Nissan Sunny, Subcompact, Sunny
The California streets of my childhood were full of Datsuns like this one, and the B210 remained a common sight in (rust-free parts of) America until well into the 1990s. Then, without anybody really noticing, nearly all of them disappeared. Every so often, I’ll find one in a self-service junkyard; there was 
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