Does anyone know where I could get an HO scale model of a Datsun 710? Or, if not, how I could make one?
I cannot help you, but if you might supply some more info someone else possibly could. What is a Datsun 710? I think their early sedans were 510s - I had one - but what is this one, another sedan, a pickup, was it called something else? Year(s)? People are not mind readers!
Take a deep breath Bob. Now, repeat after me - 210 310 410 510 610 710 810. There - feel better? The above were some of the numbers Datsun (nee Nissan) used as sedan model designators along with the 240/260/280Z sports car and 520/620 truck series as well as a plethora of other numbers. Now the bad news is over the years I’ve seen none of these offered in HO though I suspect if I had greater knowledge of Japanese web sites, some might be found. I’d love a silver 710 to letter up as the car we ran in SCCA showroom stock years ago.
Good hunting. J.R.
Well, I’m specifically after the station wagon version. My dad used to have one. It was Datsun yellow, and third-hand. My maternal grandfather bought it second-hand, and sold it to the junk yard for $25. Then my dad bought it for $40. When my grandpa found out he signed the check for $25 over to my dad, so in the end my dad only payed $15 bucks for it.[:D]
I did a Google Images search and found photos of the 710s, including the wagons. I remember them, they were fugly! Never knew them by their model numbers. Remember a co-worker had a sedan and was flabbergasted when he needed a new carburetor for it - at a cost of $220.00! One could buy a very large four barrel racing carb for a V-8 for less than half that price at the time. Japanese parts were so expensive then, and probably these days too!
I would think one of the japanese companies might make one, since they were probably more popular over there.
Off topic part:
Now since we are talking about the 710, I got a joke relating to it (at least the number):
The other day I was in the local auto parts store. A lady came
in and asked for a seven ten cap.
We all looked at each other and asked, “What’s a seven ten cap?”
She said, “You know, it’s right on the engine. Mine got lost somehow
and I need a new one.”
“What kind of a car is it?” they asked. Now I’m thinking maybe an
old Datsun Seven Ten, but she says that it is a Buick.
“Okay, lady, how big is it?”
She made a circle with her hands about 3 1/2 inches in diameter.
“What does it do?” we asked.
She said, " I don’t know, but it’s always been there." One of us
gave her a note pad and asked her if she could draw a picture of it.
So she made a circle about 3 1/2 inches in diameter and in the
center she wrote 710.
The guys behind the counter were watching as she wrote it…
And they just fell down behind the counter laughing hysterically.
Then one guy said, “I think you want an oil cap.”
She said, "Seven Ten cap, oil cap, I don’t care what you call
it. I just need one and I don’t see what is so funny about it.
**Now get a paper, draw a circle, write 710 inside of it. Now
rotate the circle 180 degrees and check the results.
Packer-THAT there was funny![(-D]
AH-HA-HA-HA!PFFFT!ROTFLMAO![(-D] [(-D]
The closest thing I saw was a Datsun 510 in a “cherries” HO version. The color of the car was white. Its in the latest Walthers sale flyer just mailed to me this week.
Sorry, there are no Japanese companies making 1:87th/HO scale model cars. Tomix produce a range of cars and trucks in their Tomytec Car 80 Collection, but these are 1:80th scale, or HOj. They list a number of older model Japanese cars, but not the Datsun 710. They don’t list one in their Tomica 1:64th scale range, either. The only other manufacturer doing older cars in 1:80th scale that I know is Time Ra80, but again, they’ve never done a Datsun 710. So looks like its a scratchbuilding job…
Cheers,
Mark (modelling Japanese railways in Hokuriku & Toyama in HOj, circa 1975-80.)