OK, so there has been another long gap between posts but I shall explain why shortly. There has also not been much work done on my Datsuns in the last month but I still seem to keep accruing Datsun stuff regardless. I was particularly excited to find this old Datsun technical poster on eBay. This lovely transmission cutaway illustration is part of a set of large posters which detail various technical aspects, in this case of the 330 series Cedric. Presumably Nissan made these sets of posters featuring other models, although to date I have only ever see one other set and they were for a C30 Laurel. The reason why this was such a fantastic find is it was the only poster missing from a set which I have owned for a number of years!

Naturally, the artwork on these posters dates from an era before digital rendering and were done by hand with a combination of airbrush and painting making them real works of art created by very a talented technical artist. Eventually, I hope to be able to display these in my garage but I have a way to go yet before I have a garage worthy of them! I dug the rest of the set out and snapped some pictures of them so click through to have a look…

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