What's your favorite old school Japanese car?

"Old Datsun" story

In the late seventies, early eighties I sold auto / truck parts, heavy hardware, logging supplies, turned drums and rotors, and made hydraulic and other hoses. Once in awhile, "fixed" welders

Anyhow an elderly guy came in and plopped a starter up on the bench, and says, "Can you send this in and have it rebuilt?"

"Sure, but we might have one."

"Doubt it," says he. (we didn't).

"What's it out of?"

"That old Datsun out front."

There sits one of the older "round nose" Datsun pickups, a 67? or so?

So I asked him, "How in heck you start that thing? Park on a hill?"

"Naw, just use the crank" he says

THEN IT DAWNED on me why the JACK tool is a big long crank, you 'member those? You stuck it in the rear of the bed to winch the spare down (when THAT worked) and it also raised the jack.

Turns out it was ALSO an outgrowth of "when they had cranks."

Friend of mine had a later Datsun 510, and it still had the engine crank fitting on the dampener, although the radiator was in the way LOL

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upF7M_xvar0"]How to Start a 1965 Datsun Truck - YouTube[/ame]