😢❤️👍🏻 love em! Had a black one. So reliable. Bring em back!!

They were fantastically reliable compared to much of the British Tat around at that time, always started in the cold and damp, had things like heated rear window, radio, and hazard warning lights, rare options on entry level cars of the mid 70's ... I owned and sold loads of them, brilliant little cars and Datsun proved that they were a force to be reckoned with, yes they rusted in the end like most cars of that period, but the most likely thing you would hear as it went to be scrapped or sold for spares was ...... " Shame really, because it's never let me down and still runs and drives perfectly "

We had a 4 door turquoise 120y in the 75-85. This brings back memories. First car, I totally loved it. Nice to see original, unmodified.

I had a yellow one back in 92 which was my first car. Actually the body was immaculate apart from the faded paint. The engine ran so smoothly that at traffic lights passengers would think I'd turned the engine off. Used electrical tape to run some racing stripes vertically across the car. Looked cool!

When a Japanese badge actually meant made in Japan and was quality.

Beauty! The one my dad bought back in 1977, and we had it till early this year, when my brother sold it off without us knowing, as it was in his use mainly. It became a wreck lately, but still used to start 'half-self' start!. Never had its engine made, except for rings replacement once only! Thats was the beauty of this car. A time tested vehicle, an extraordinary shaped body and dash board... Sturdy, durable, tough, economical and a life partner - the Datsun 120Y...

Brings back the lovely memories of my childhood thanks for sharing your lovely datsun

Did my driving test in 1982 in a 120Y, passed first time so nothing but good memories for the 120Y.

What a beautiful tour excellent camera work ..keep it up

My dad's first car was a 4 door Datsun 120y . Seeing your video brings back lot's of memories . Thanks for the video .

My first car in 1983 was a Datsun 120y in metallic Burgundy, I loved that motor, it was a little gem.

Thank you for that trip down memory lane! They were lovely little cars. I wish I still had mine, a late 70's example that rusted out quicker than I could fix it

Wow! The memories. First car my Mom had. Took us all over COSTA RICA 🇨🇷 when we were kids. Only difference was steering wheel was on the opposite side,LHD!!! 🥺

Very beautiful, better than all the modern cars that I own

Thats incredible. I had a 73 one which was rust held together with holes and stickers

I bought the same car is 1983 and someone had painted a white strip on each side so it looked like Starsky and Hutches car... hehehehe i thought it was the bollox. Great memories.

Mudflaps! WOW!!! Original Datsun mudflaps. Haven’t seen those in decades. What a beautiful example, we had a ‘79 T reg Bluebird 180B estate which I grew up in sitting in the back watching the world go forwards in reverse - you know if you’ve been there, but my best mates dad had a 120Y Sunny 4 dr with the Blake’s 7 hubcaps rather than the pie dishes this one has. Hats off to yer fella for keeping this beauty in such an amazing condition. Long may she stay in this state.

127,000 were imported to Britain between 1973 and 1978, all except about 50 have been scrapped into oblivion. The earlier 120Ys have pie dish wheel trims, and the later ones honeycombed.

I had an 'S' reg one in the 70's and loved the look of it. Always thought of it as a cheap stylish car, never ugly !

I had 1 it took a lot of grief smoked when got it was driven a lot raced round the lanes jumps filled with used oil even had pure grease from a drum chucked in it and still never broke down was jacked up using an old bed base lol

Thanks so much for posting...Memories!...Car I learnt to drive in and I bought this same colour as my first ever vehicle!

My first decent car was this model , except manual, in this colour. I would buy this in a heartbeat.

I remember a neighbour up the road from me in the 80's had one exactly like this, same colour, he painted a white Starsky and Hutch stripe on it. As a child I thought it was the best car on our street.

Had a 1976 4 door, very, very reliable, the engines derived from early bmc engine's but we're improved upon

Great looking cars! I think they look best in duck egg blue and with dustbin lid wheel trims.

A gearbox that shifted soft like butter, a humming 4 cylinder and with half a meter of snow it always started. Mine was bought for forty honest Guilders and was nicknamed DIrrek after the D on the steering wheel. I never had a better car for such a small amount in my whole life. And would you believe that I learned much later that Datsun were teached how to build cars by Austin of England !

My dad had a green one and mine was yellow. Like all the details. The crank in the booth :-)

Beautiful Datsun which will run forever as a dry miler.This car saw off British Leyland's unreliable offerings,a workmate had one same colour and year and model as this one in 1985 and though the sills and door bottoms had rusted through it still ticked over like a sewing machine,in general though this model was the best Datsun for longevity,still a few being used as runabouts in the early 2000s.

When I worked for Addams & Gibbon there was a radiator repair shop down the street one of the lads there had a one with a starsky and hutch stripe .

My grandad had one but in manual. He passed it on to my dad and was our family car until it fell to bits with rust!

I had one the very same, colour and even a ‘P’ reg. Loved that car, all the extras on other cars all came as standard on a Datsun. How things have changed now - for the worse, in a Datsun your only choice was what engine size you required

This is the most amazing example that I have ever seen ! Well done sir !

Thumbs up for a clean old Datsun 👍

Magnificent

Truly remarkable that it's survived in such pristine condition.

Classic my mates nan had one and then decades later my mates older brother had one that belonged to his grandad lol... great funky cars.

My Primary school teacher has a bright yellow one. To me as an 8 year old it just looked so different to the Head master`s Rover

Beautiful! The first car i ever drove. I was around 12 or 13 years old. I remember asking my uncle who owned it if he would sell it to me one day. If all goes well i’ll be buying it from my uncle this summer! Fingers crossed!

Amyzing osaaam old is gold

i love it i also have one Original 100% they still out there.lucky to find one.

Excelente! Único!

Very good condition 👍

That is one beautiful car mate

An elderly gentleman round the corner had an exactly same one as this but his was on an N-reg and maroon. At the time the car was 14 years old and it was still like a show piece. I'm guessing he must have looked after it very well as some elderly people do.

That's an incredible survivor! It must be the best B210 in not just the UK but the whole of Europe.

Norman Ankers In York is now a fish and chip restaurant !We had. 120y coupe . Super reliable but needed loads of welding every year to get through mot. Fitted rear seat belts for the kids .Really easy as had all the bolting holes under the rear seats and c pillar

Cracking looking car. Shame you never opened the bonnet

One 1975 Datsun 120Y was white and had the interesting registration JAP120N, did not last too long, scrapped and rusty by 1986.

When I was a kid I used to think this was a shark car. Cause of the way the front end looks like a shark face and the gill design at the rear lol

Even the clock still works.

I always remember the natty "tortoise shell" hub caps that certain versions of these had (not this one).

My first car ❤️

My uncle had one he carried a breeze block in the boot as in slippery conditions the back would try to get in front and it held I'd down

Beautiful, just breathtaking I would love to own a vintage two dr 120y. If you still have it in a couple years and interested in selling I would definitely want to buy it.

These were perhaps the ugliest Japanese car ever produced but decades later, this is really their appeal. I absolutely love it! Actually I should have ignored advice when I was a student way back when and bought one of these. Those hub caps we use to call "cake tin hub caps." Is that a Datsun 240Z in the back ground?

Once they rusted they were near impossible to weld as the metal was so thin in them. Same goes for Subarus. Don't ask how I know.

This was my parents first car they had.

Qué chulada de carro si lo vendes avísame por favor

My Mums friends had a Datsun 120Y 4 dr in Metallic Blue.

I passed my driving test in a pale metallic blue one of these in 1984

Beautiful example, looks like its in good hands too. How often do use them to keep them in working order just out of interest?

Hi Andrew - I am trawling the internet for resources as I just bought a "barn find" (actually under a car cover in an below-ground garage) B210 120Y in Gibraltar - has some minor patina but completely rust free. I need service parts initially to recommission it for a rolling resto. Could you point me in the direction of a good reliable parts supplier for OEM stuff? I am in Gibraltar but tend to ship things from the UK unless otherwise necessary. Thank you in advance. And by the way its a lovely car. Mines a 4 door in light blue.

I also have this car and want to restore it

Sweet car!

Turquoise was the nicest colour for a 120Y, but I've never seen a Cherry 100A or F11 in turquoise.

THE ENGINE ??? PLEASE

I want to buy this car from you. How much do you want for it?

I bought a new Datsun 120Y in the 70s. Within a year it was starting to rust. In less than two years holes were appearing in the body. Not one of my favorite cars.

How the heck do you do that? Everything original? It still looks 19,000 miles! How did you keep it looking that good?? I will really like to know. To my knowledge, even if it were parked, it would rot away..... Whao!!

do you still drive it?

Would love to buy it.

What about the engine

These were quite a reliable car and economical too. But they weren't as well built as their competitor the Toyota Corolla.

Mate if you were to sell that, what’s be the price? I’d kill to see the look on me mums face if I bought her “first” car 😩

It's that car for sale ?

they were reliable but rust buckets

Lmao in Trinidad&Tobago these are everywhere. You can buy one dirt cheap.

Please sell this I will buy it

RS

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Legend

Omg. I had one of these. In a sort of British racing green. The inside was really nice.