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Re: Roadster's British heritage.

To: "'Datsun Fairlady'" <datsun_fairlady@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Roadster's British heritage.
From: Mark <captainhoek@postmark.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 07:14:30 -0600

SPL311RDST@aol.com wrote:

>> Let me draw to your attention the first Nissan
> product -  a lisenced built Austin Seven. (a BRITISH car). This car put the
> company "on the map" in the auto industry. 

Some years agos a mechanic (of dubious intelligence) told me that the Roadster 
engine is a carbon copy of a Jag engine of that era.  He said that many of the 
parts were interchangeble.  Anyone know if that's true?


Mark van der Hoek
Houston, for now.

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