I recognize that car, I used to live just around the corner from the original owner. They were not common in Adelaide. Always wondered what happened to it.
dazaspc, I live in South Australia also. Back in the mid 80's through to about '95, I worked with an older English gentleman named Ron (Jennings). He drove a lovely old Humber Super Snipe, but I am sure he also had a Cedric at one time and this example looks eerily familiar. Perhaps you can shed some light...? Thanks HubNut for another thoroughly entertaining and informative road test.
@@michaelsa I recall a Super Snipe but at the same address ? To long ago to be sure. At the time I was interested in Nissans as we had a Patrol and this was pre 72 .
I'm with the commenter who saw Farina BMC as well, particularly in the rear 3/4 view. A bit of film trivia: This is the same model as the taxi Sean Connery takes (as James Bond) to Osato's headquarters in "You Only Live Twice."
The switch over the radio is for the automatic antenna. My Dad bought a new Nissan Cedric Custom in 1965, while we were living in Tokyo. (We are Danish.) It was metallic green, had aircondition and automatic antenna, all things I had not seen before, I was 8 years old. I remember very well, how it stod shining i the sun, when he came home with it. Thank you for this ride ad memory lane :-)
Old Nissan's were solidly built and well designed. I wonder how they could have allowed toyota to overshadow them after the mid eighties onwards, The 240z, 510 , cherry, 120y , 180b , 140j were better cars than rivals from Toyota
I learned to drive in one of these in the early 70s, in New South Wales, my Dad bought it at auction from an embassy sale, it was bright blue, very comfortable and had a sliding glass partition behind the front seats and a white steering wheel. It was great for date night! Dad used it as a slogger to drive to work and had a big Falcon wagon for weekend family use.
What a car, it just seems so well put together, 95bhp from a 1.9 in 1965 is quite some poke, looks like you really enjoyed driving it, makes me want to check out the classic car adds to see what kind of price they are though it might be worth importing, I will look into it, thanks Hubnut :)
How gorgeous. As you say, a Japanese take on British cars inspired by American cars. Brilliant and so well executed. My 1622cc Austin has a Nissan J Series cylinder head on it. They are interchangeable! (and better) I can't believe that you didn't know how to work a push button radio or that the rocker switch above it with the up and down arrows is probably the electric aerial. Perhaps it was the excitement of the interior :-) Thanks for taking the trouble to re-do the test for us. Cheers.
Ooooh I do love a Cedric! The owner of a local Chinese restaurant had a much newer model back in the 80's and I tried buying it to no avail. When I left to join the RAF and came back several years later he remembered me and apologised but he had recently sold the car and he had looked for me....memories of a garbled message during a phone call from an uncle now made sense... I missed getting her by 6 months for £400...it was still in use in the late 90's but no clue after that. Peace Charlie 🇬🇧
Incredible styling cues from many cars of the period. The bench seat with the ash try reminds me of the old Australian Holdens of the 60s and 70s. I hope you get to review some old Holdens on your Australian and New Zealand trip.
What a wonderful machine, and a lovely woofly engine note, probably helped by the Nikki carb. It's a shame they're so incredibly rare now. '60s buyers missed out on a lot by laughing at and being incredibly snobby about Japanese cars of the time...
It's probably a good thing that people were snobby about Japanese cars at the time otherwise the British motor industry would have been killed off sooner!
A fabulous car! Thanks! I'm column shiftaholic since I drove a Ford Zephyr v4, once drove a Zephyr 6 with separate front seats and a floor shift. No class!
Mr Hubnut - exceptional find - a true piece in the history and progress of Japanese cars - real back to the future stuff - thanks for sharing the video with us.
Sounds so sophisticated and am impressed by your mastering of the column change. First gear sounds a bit Moggy Minorish... without the farty exhaust, then goes all quiet and sounds all American... What an amazing car!
That was chock-full of motoring goodness. For what it's worth, I do enjoy the camera angle, so we get an eyeful of that glorious dashboard. Have a safe return home, Mr Hubnut!
@@nn-ro1lv It could have been Richmond north of Sydney , but it's too nice to have come from Richmond ,Queensland . NSW cars tended to be nicer because of the annual inspection .Qld,we can drive cars until they stop.
Mercmad There’s also a Richmond in Adelaide very close to the airport, so having SA plates in the boot, along with other plates which weren’t explained but also look South Australian, my guess is it came from Adelaide.
@@jamesmcgowen1769 Yes this cars from Adelaide. From the books it was sold from 122 Pirie st, right in the city, bought by a man who lived on Marion rd Richmond, about 4kms from the city.
I had a 1968 SuperSixDeluxe 40 years ago. Black, with blue chromed tainted windows. The models evolved rapidly from this 1965 version and to 1970. I think 1968 had two versions! Loved it, 6-seater, black, flawed, designed by Pininfarina. Leaving me with a life long love for Nissan straight sixes.
I remember seeing this car in a showroom in Melbourne in 1963. In 1968 I bought my first Datsun, a Datsun 1000, have had a Datsun/Nissan in the garage ever since. Drove our 2017 Qashqai to Canberra recently, 6.3 l/100km at 110 km/h our freeway speed, comfortable and a dream to drive.
I like the sweeping shape of top of the dashboard . It looks like an improved version of British cars of the time. Hard to believe today but at the time Japanese cars normally came with a radio , unheard of in British cars where they were an optional extra.
What a fabulous car! Love everything about it. I remember liking the Cedric when as a 10 year old in 1965, I used to browse through the Observers Book of Automobiles.
I can't believe the level of conservation on this car: the interior looks so incredibly new! Also, it does look like very nice car: really quiet and comfortable, with very pleasing design -- both on the interior and outside.
Lovely motor! The indicator lights / umbrella handbrake / quad headlamps and even those doorknobs look identical to the ones in my Dad's long-since-rusted-away 1969 Datsun 510!!
Hi Ian, well what a stunning car,reminds me so much of family members cars of old, My dad had an old 1957 Austin A55 that had the exact pattern gear change,and the umbrella hand brake, the front looks like a Humber Super Snipe and the back looks like a farina bodied MG Magnette/Riley 4/68 --4/72 with those light clusters, as you can tell I love old cars and as a single female I do get some odd looks,because I turn up at classic car meets on my own,I once owned a MK1 Lotus Cortina of 1965 vintage, which was a real hoot to drive,but now many years later, i drive a modest Fiesta, well not too modest it has a few "Extras"........including a Hubnut Sticker ........... most enjoyable video Ian brought back many memories........... thanks
What a gorgeous time warp car loaded with very well preserved period style. Light years ahead of my old 1960 Singer Gazelle in terms of sophistication. My Gazelle also had steering column gear change a feature I absolutely love, very convenient, and I wish it was an option on modern cars.
Surprised at myself getting freaked out at the "delicious" dash, horn ring, the quarter wing windows in the rear doors, and the hole in the front bumper for the engine crank...proof your videos over time have made an impression on me, Ian, to appreciate automotive attributes that I never did before. Thanks mate.
Wonderful old car. I’ve been very fortunate to have been taken out in one in Japan by one of the former executives of NISSAN Motorsport who had had it from new as a company car and then bought it from Nissan upon his retirement. He’s now a historian at Nissan’s heritage museum in Zama - another truly wonderful experience. Thank you for another awesome video!
Love your channel. My grandparents in the US owned a 1960 Vauxhall Victor they bought from a Pontiac dealer. My uncle in California kept her in parts for quite awhile. He couldn't find parts for it and she gave it to me. I had it for awhile and sold it. It was pretty much a rust bucket but I enjoyed driving the Vauxhall and the smell of it.
What is interesting is the speedo of this car is in miles per hour because Australia didn't go metric until 1974 after which every car was sold with a Km per hour speedos.
At the time all cars had to be fitted with imperial speedometers. A big problem in Australia at the time was to keep the sell price competitive with the locally produced Holdens, Fords and Chryslers. One way both Toyota and Nissan (mainly Toyota) did this was to ship in CKD kits, these were stripped down models without all the shiny bells that other markets got. Also means we ended up with bodgy models like a Toyota Crown fitted with locally made Borg Warner (model 35) 3 speed automatic box and Borg Warner rear axle and driveline instead of the beautifully smooth Aisin Auto and driveline.
I'm glad you mentioned that, I live in Canada and they changed everything over night to metric, and I mean everything. I think that was sometime in 1976. It doesn't bother me one bit. My son tells me that he is 1.7 m tall no problem but it's it's a bit of a shock when it's done within 24 hrs.
@@589steven If you don't pull the metaphorical band aid off you end up like the USA who are stuck with a the terrible imperial system or the UK who can't fully break away and are measuring distance in miles and fuel in liters which is absurd.
@Peter Alan Clark It's like saying that people who buy quarter of a kilo of potatoes pay more than those who buy a kilo. It just doesn't make sense. Unless you are being ironic.
@@589steven Imagine Sweden where they changed from driving on the left to driving on the right in 10 minutes between 4:50 am and 5:00 am on 3 Sept 1967.
What a lovely old car, and how incredibly graceful. I think this has just knocked the Rover 820 into second place as my favourite Hubnut car of all time.
When I was a young bloke in 1982, me and my mates in Brisbane destroyed one of these on a dirt road in the bush then sent it down a steep embankment. I went looking for it recently and it’s still there albeit with a tree growing out of it. It’s a fond memory of one of the most entertaining days of my teenage years. It’s great to see at least some people chose to look after one.
What a beautiful car. Cant believe how quiet those indicators are...can see those being left on by accident for miles. Kind of glad the camera blurred out the terrifying sight of those sandals by the way!
I have seen a couple of these dumped on a station in outback Western Australia near Mt Magnet. I was amazed to see these Japanese luxury cars from the 60s had been used out there. They looked impressive.
Not seen one ever in the flesh close up, what a beautiful looking and sounding car, and you don't need the badge to identify as a Nissan/Datsun as blue air filter housing is a giveaway... Great video yet again,Thanks Ian.
Just reading the comments and we commented on the same thing within minutes it seems. You know it is a an old Nissan or Datsun after you have worked on many with that air filter housing
Just catching up in lock-down. That is a beautiful car, an upmarket version of my Dad’s Austin Cambridge. Will now look for the newer Cedric video. Well done Ian.
Well, what a treat that was for us, as well as your good self Hubnut. I can tell you that the motor is the Nissan H series, which also served in the Fairlady roadster, Nissan vans up to 1982, and any number of forklifts. I've owned one in a Nissan E20 van, and suggest that you commend to the owner to use a lead replacement in the fuel - the exhaust valves don't like unleaded. The finned rocker cover surprised me, and it may be that this comes from a Fairlady roadster. Styling-wise, yes, the front doors and windscreen are very Vauxhall PA, the rear doors and window are very Phase III Vanguard, and the boot and tail lights are reminiscent of the gas turbine Rover P6 prototype. There are quite a few places in Australia called Richmond - the one in question will be one of the suburbs of Adelaide. And my memory has the Humber Super Snipe acquiring quad headlights in 1960. Cheers!
Yes you little beauty I’m a 22 year old Aussie and I have a 1964 Nissan Cedric deluxe sedan, in the same condition if not better just a year older! It’s in superb condition and I only know of one other man with a Cedric and he has 8 of them! You can tell the year difference by the pattern of the grill also!
Yet another underrated quality classic. This car is simply lovely, there are no other words. And courtesy lights in the doors, that’s very forward thinking for 1960. Once again Ian many thanks for taking the trouble to bring this to us, a joy as always but this one in particular. Keep them coming😀😀😀😀😀
So many influences from other cars and Countries built into a very smart package. It drives so well and amazingly so for a 55 year old car, I wouldn't mind travelling in it for hours on end.
I had a 3rd generation Cedric (330 I think), the Datsun 280c, with 2.8 litre straight 6. I liked it, apart from the chronic rust and habit it had of stopping pumping petrol into the carb on a regular basis. The only carb I have ever seen with a window to the float chamber, a wonderful old tank.
Great Motor car. Did not sell in large numbers because of the Holden and its towing capacity which was the towing vehicle of choice for caravans and boats.
A car called Cedric - all was well with the world back then. It's drop dead gorgeous and I want one ! It's like the Hillman but better specced and probably much more reliable :-). Where did car design go so wrong since ? Thank you for bring us this - our lives would have been much poorer otherwise.
Fascinating car. I never got into Japanese cars much before the seventies so it's really interesting to see these much earlier models. Thanks for the video. Cool.
Hi Ian, I was 23 when I went to live in Australia in 1980 (stayed there till 2005) & the first car I had was a 1968 Toyota Crown three on the tree gearchange, whst a beast, when you get a 2nd hand vehicle in Oz, it's has to have a RWC, which is like our MOT, once it has that you don't have to renew it every yr, so there's a load of bodgy old cars on the road, also when you register it every yr it automatically includes 3rd party insurance, it might have changed since 2005 , I'm not sure. , but I loved the fact of not having to MOT the vehicle every yr. All the best & many thanks for showing us your travels
I'm seeing Triumph Herald especially at the back. Interesting and unusual so very nice. Thanks I really enjoy the bangers and puddle jumpers myself also.
None of the 20 year old cars I owned in the 70s started on anything other a balmy spring day. 'sorry I'm late, the Ford/Austin/Hillman wouldn't start'. I dont know whether that's nostalgia or it's opposite🤔
@@cncshrops So true ! I have such fond memories of keeping the battery on charge overnight , flooding carbs ... With all the reliable engines and ancillaries nowadays, it's a shame they don't design cars to look particularly stylish or have character like the oldies.
3:39 the RAA decal tells me this was a South Australian vehicle (there's a Richmond in Victoria also - but then we'd see the RACV logo instead) - cool.
Ah, a Nikki carb. First time I've seen one other than as a VW Beetle conversion carb. Reminded me of a Fiat 2300 front and Lancia Flaminia rear but as you say the middle is very Humber.
A Nissan Cedric from Adelaide, South Australia which is actually where I live although I really can't ever remember seeing on on the road. I don't think they were ever very common here. Perhaps as rare as the Prince Skyline? Incidentally Nissan took Prince over in 1967. Actually when that car was originally sold I was still a little kid in the UK, not arriving Australia until the early 70s.
Hi Mark I used to walk past one on my way to school in Linden park Adelaide in about 1961. Nissans were sold here from 1957. The Cedric was by far and away the best Japanese offering in those early days...eg Mazda had a two cylinder rear engined car that was on par with a east German trabbi. There were plenty of Cedrics about. I remember seeing a row of new Prince Skylines for sale in the day. The entire production of GTB was sent to Australia and New Zealand .. being a schoolboy car nut it was a great time.
It is believed that Nissan at that point in manufacture wanted to use other names for their cars on the international market, so that if sales did not 'take off', Nissan reputation would remain intact. Amazing that you are road testing a car purchased in South Australia, where I live. There was a wagon version as well. With tariffs in place, the strength of the Australian Dollar to the Japanese Yen was very favourable in terms of value for money on an imported car..
@@robert43g In New Zealand during the 60's, there were two models sold badged as Nissans rather than Datsun, the Gloria and Patrol. The two model were distributed in NZ by different distributors, with the Gloria through the original Prince dealers like they were in Japan, and the Patrol through the Datsun network.
What a lovely Victor/Snipe/Westminster - just like discovering a new species! Yes quiet indicators were a sign of quality back then. A bit out on your dates though as S3 Super Snipe has quad lamps in 1960 and Mk2 Consul came out in 1956 I believe. You lucky man having a drive in that unbelievably original car, I'm very envious. Great video thanks.
Love that car , i have never ever seen one before, but that is just lovely, the column change seemed a bit of a faff , but that aside...a beautiful classic car...one of the best ones you have done in my humble..opinion, thanks Ian.
Simply gorgeous! From the rear door, it reminds me of Checker Marathon, the manufacturer of old taxicabs for New York City! The doors, wheel arches, rear fenders, all remind of the Checker. The windscreen is very vintage 1950's, where most US vehicles had the wraparound windscreen, up until 1960. I think many American knocked their knees getting behind the wheel as well. Watching you driving, I was amazed at how little you had to correct steering; it went where you pointed it to go. It seems so fresh, so retro, yet so current !
I learnt to drive in a Cedric wagon and did many trips to the N T ,1000 klm each way. The light under the bonnet twists and has a meter of cable attached so you can look all over the motor.
