DATSUN BLUEBIRD WAGON

Back in the 1960s people were making jokes about Japanese car names and treating them as a fad that wouldn’t last. Wrong. Anyone who bought a Bluebird with its almost lavish interior and peppy 1.3-litre engine would have owned a fine little family wagon and paid not a lot of money. Sadly not much resale value either. With the exception of Toyota Coronas that hung around for decades and Datsun 1600s that were reborn as rally cars, older Japanese models were by 2009 very scarce. This 1967 version looks tatty but sound and hopefully it survived.