Toby thought
That the 240 was really easy to build after building roadsters. There
are more steel parts to the roadster bodies than the whole Z shell, and
the frames were hand-welded (beads, not spots) in many places. The
roadster suspension is as complicated as the Z, even factoring in the
IRS, and the Z sold like hotcakes from day one. It was a late '60's car
to replace the early '50's technology that was the roadster.
It also looked sexy. Altho (flame-bait, flame-bait) most men like it
and most women think it's a prosthesis, even now, 30 years later... I
think I'm bitter because my girlfriend loves the roadster but promises
to stop making her part of the mortgage if I get one...
Toby
BERKEN@aol.com asked
> Anyone know what the actual reasons for Nissan's decision to drop the
> roadster?
>
> Joseph Berkenbile
> 70 1600
> Albuquerque
Gordon replied:
No, the roadster went out of production because the world changed.
Les added:
As for what I have heard about the demise of the roadster it goes mostly
along with what Gordon said. But add to that some of you have 69s that
are really 68 cars and 70s that are really 69s and some even go the
other way so it really depends on where your car was sold and if they
were big sellers in that area.
And lat but not least, Paul Kort added...
I have always read that the immediate cause was the sales volume of
the
240Z, but with the regulations that had already forced changes to the
roadsters; high windshield, padded dash, smog pumps, side markers, &
larger reflectors on the rear of the 70s, Datsun was probably happy to
have
the sales success of the 240Z and not too sad to say good-bye to the R16
&
U20.
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