1968 Nissan Bluebird - Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue(bird)

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1968 Nissan Bluebird - Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue(bird)

<dt><b>1968 Nissan Bluebird - Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue(bird)</b><br /><img src="http://image.superstreetonline.com/f/features/sstp_1304_1968_nissan_bluebird/45712463+ppromo_large/sstp-1304-10-o+1968-nissan-bluebird+1968-nissan-bluebird.jpg" onerror="javascript:this.src='http://static.superstreetonline.com/_SiteConfigs/_global/images/no_photo_100px.gif'" alt="1968 Nissan Bluebird - Super Street Magazine" /><br /><a href="http://www.superstreetonline.com/features/sstp_1304_1968_nissan_bluebird/">SR20DE-powered 510 Bluebird Coupe</a><p>In the 1950s, in America, cars were all about jet-age this and rocket-power that. In the '60s, in Japan, Nissan borrowed that motif and adapted it for the times, calling its new Bluebird model "Supersonic"; the 510 Bluebird launched across Japan, in magazines and on TV alike, in the fall of '67 with images of Concorde (and only images, as the actual Concorde didn't fly till the spring of '69) and ideas about swift comfort put firmly in the Japanese car buyer's head. Faster-than-sound capabilities strained credulity â€"the hottest version, the triple-carb 1800SSS, was good for 115 horsepower; not even its designer (see sidebar) considered believing it. But then, no one really believed that those two-and-a-half-ton American tanks of the '50s were actually jet-powered, either; it was all about image. And the Bluebird had image in spades. Supersonic!</p> a <br /> Photo Gallery: <a href="http://www.superstreetonline.com/features/sstp_1304_1968_nissan_bluebird/">1968 Nissan Bluebird - Super Street Magazine</a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.superstreetonline.com/features/sstp_1304_1968_nissan_bluebird/">1968 Nissan Bluebird - Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue(bird)</a> |
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