If it was to change back, would SCS then become SSS ?............. reminds me of BG's last vehicle... a Datsun 180B SSS Coupe.....The 180B SSS was quite an awesome vehicle in its day; quick with nice handling. They flew mostly under the radar, as most Australians were far too consumed by the local version of american iron to notice.BigShunter.
They did well in rallying as well
Are you sure you aren't confusing the 180B with the Datsun 1600 which was tough as nails as a rally car.
Now we are completely off track...
The SSS had an independent rear end whereas the Aussie built 180B had a solid rear axle. The SSS was so noisy to travel in with the interior air pressure pushing the windows out of the rubber around the doors as they were frameless doors, mine was a 4 speed, the 5 speed being released in '74.
Very tough engine, but looking back with lots of hindsight and if I was a few years older, I'd have bought my Pacer new, fully optioned like it is now...factory air etc....but then I was such a hoon I'd have probably killed myself in it. 
With further hindsight, it was probably best I bought it 25 years ago for $3k when I was in the mid life crisis, I could look back ...and forward because 25 years ago, Pacers really weren't cool, but the body style makes it with the stripes and badging etc....and that colour...Thar She Blue. 
You can probably guess...I'm not a silver Camry kind of guy... 
Last Thursday week was such a nice day and the buses on the Ballarat line.......I took a sickie and took her for a drive to Castlemaine and had a reminisce around Barker St...bought some pies etc from McShanaugh's and went and visited all the relo's and my mum at Harcourt cemetery. Went for a drive up to the Res and bought some nice honey from a roadside stall in North Harcourt and some things at the IGA before heading home...contemplating life and how damn short it is 
To take it back to a railway theme, now the house is paid off and I'm not retiring for a few years...in early July, with some friends I've planned a holiday to Cornwall and Norway...was going to be Iceland, but that's possibly next year. Everywhere in Europe by train including London to northern Norway (Bodo) thence ferry to Kirkenes, way above the Arctic circle then ferry back to Bergen, Norway...5 nights/days of fjords etc. The ferry is a daily milk run.
Confirming schedules with the travel agent yesterday and getting to the $$ part of the trip, I was advised there will be buses for some part of the rail journey between Hamburg and Copenhagen...in the high Summer tourist season 
Made me think...V/Line isn't so bad after all.
Mike.
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If it was to change back, would SCS then become SSS ?............. reminds me of BG's last vehicle... a Datsun 180B SSS Coupe.....The 180B SSS was quite an awesome vehicle in its day; quick with nice handling. They flew mostly under the radar, as most Australians were far too consumed by the local version of american iron to notice.BigShunter.
They did well in rallying as well
Are you sure you aren't confusing the 180B with the Datsun 1600 which was tough as nails as a rally car.
Now we are completely off track...
The SSS had an independent rear end whereas the Aussie built 180B had a solid rear axle. The SSS was so noisy to travel in with the interior air pressure pushing the windows out of the rubber around the doors as they were frameless doors, mine was a 4 speed, the 5 speed being released in '74.
Very tough engine, but looking back with lots of hindsight and if I was a few years older, I'd have bought my Pacer new, fully optioned like it is now...factory air etc....but then I was such a hoon I'd have probably killed myself in it.
With further hindsight, it was probably best I bought in 25 years ago when I was in the mid life crisis, I could look back ...and forward because 25 years ago, Pacers really weren't cool, but the body style makes it with the stripes and badging etc....and that colour...Thar She Blue.
You can probably guess...I'm not a silver Camry kind of guy...
Mike.