Upper Middle Petrol Head:

Sadly, the Chief Canberra Correspondent hasn't permanently resumed his role capturing classic cars in Australia's capital but, fortunately for us, he does still make the occasional encore visit to the place of his birth.    This nocturnal beauty - a 1963 Datsun 25 CWT* panel van - was netted recently, and is only the second example of a 1960s’commercial version of the marque that we at UMPH have ever seen. As such, it joins the gorgeous, and quite unique, Datsun 1200 / U320 crew cab ute that we featured several years ago, as shown below: If this interests you, here's a link to that piece: https://uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com/2019/10/readers-photos-50-early-datsun-1200.html . We know nothing about this van version, beyond what we were able to learn from the rather handy NSW rego checking site,  https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/check-a-vehicle-registration . What we can say, however, is that it's an absolute beauty, with really nice duco, panels and chrome...