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Yes.  Another one.  This time, it’s a fabulously honest track car that wears its history with pride.  It may be a tiny bit battered and bruised - as you might expect of any competition vehicle of a similar vintage - but it's straight and looks great!  The Nippon Datsun Club badge is a cool touch. It doesn't seem to have beeen heavily modified, although there's nothing to say what sort of engine it's running*.  However, it appears to be fitted with a standard brake set-up** - discs upfront and finned drums at the rear - and has a nice set of 14" Superlites all 'round.  Inside, there's a race seat and sports steering wheel, a couple of extra gauges, a cage and that's about it.    The high-beam delete is a common mod, presumably to aid under-bonnet ventilation.  It also reveals a wonderful DIY olive oil catch can. * and **:  The car's owner, FaceBook handle Nam Nustad, reached out with the following info: It's running an L20B [a 1,952 cc, ...

Here it is:  September, 2024's, Classics by the Beach, summed up in a single image!  Cold.  Wet.  Miserable.  And not very well attended, either.  Not that you could blame anybody for not turning up to Southern Tasmania's (usually) premier cars 'n' coffee event at Sandy Bay, 15 minutes' drive from Hobart's CBD, in such appalling conditions!   It's unclear if this very cool first gen Pajero was at the event as a participant or it just happened to be there.  Either way, it was a ripper, being in great all-round nick and nicely specced, too.  The neatly fitted winch and nudge bar combo were really cool, as were its fat alloys and flared wheel arches. And just in case the first photo didn't speak to the pox-horrific crappiness of the weather, this one might tell you something about the effect it had on the event's attendance.  At least parking wasn't a problem. So, just to balance the books the tiniest little bit, here's a link to the final ...