Commercials from Japan and the United States for the S12 Nissan SX/Silvia/Gazelle.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Nissan SX/Silvia/Gazelle, it was Nissan’s competitor to the Toyota Celica.
It was part of the corporate mentality of Nissan and Toyota competing head-to-head with each other, such as Nissan building the SX/Silvia/Gazelle to compete with the Celica; and Toyota building the Supra to compete with the Z-Car.
Maybe NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson should be transported by yours truly in a Z31 Z-Car, and come into realization that cars like the Nissan Z-Car, Toyota Supra, Mazda RX-7; and any Volkswagen/Audi, including and especially the Sirocco/Corrado are more important than getting married, gaining new in-laws, starting a family and having children, anything fitness-related, dressing to the nines, going to church; and the major changes that have occurred to NASCAR since the beginning of the 21st century.
Ideally, Jimmie Johnson would be transported in a Z31 Z-Car with one of the turbocharged variants of the Nissan VG engine-the VG30E.
These commercials for the Z31 Z-Car from Japan and the United States ought to stir any emotion in Jimmie Johnson’s mind about this vehicle.
I think it would be a very pleasant and delightful experience for Jimmie Johnson to hear the Nissan xylophone-sounding “ding dong” chime when the ignition is turned and the engine is started up, the voice warning system; and the sound that a Nissan engine typically makes when they crank up.
And Jimmie Johnson should also ponder over all of the engineers employed by Nissan in Japan assigned to work on the Z31 project prior to it’s release in 1983, how much time and money Nissan had spent developing and testing the VG engine before the engine itself had gone into production in 1983; and Kazumasu Togaku being appointed the chief stylist for the Z31 project.
Last, Jimmie Johnson should ponder over Nissan’s corporate philosophy in comparison to Toyota’s corporate philosophy-such as Toyota building the Supra to compete against the Z-Car.
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A 78 passenger Front-Engine TC/2000 like what John Roeck buys 10 years earlier than when this particular one was built, instead of the Ward President transit style School Buses on the GM S-7 stripped chassis in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”.
1999 School Bus – Montgomery County Public Schools Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1576648
There are plenty of homes on large plots of land near the Wayne School Bus body assembly plant in Richmond, Indiana; as the plant is located in the rural vicinity of Richmond.
The Wayne School Bus body assembly plant in Richmond, Indiana.
When Wayne had gone out of business in 1995, Carpenter had purchased the plant, had moved of their historic home in Mitchell, Indiana and into the former Wayne plant in Richmond.
When Carpenter had also gone out of business in 2000, the manufacruing complex and offices had been sold off in sections rather than as a whole.
A newspaper article about Wayne and it’s former plant in Richmond:
http://www.pal-item.com/story/news/local/2015/02/22/wayne-works-workers-sought-interviews/23840897/
The former Wayne factory repair facility:
A 1973-1991 GM pickup truck driving by where the Wayne plant is:
The Carpenter School Bus body assembly plant in Mitchell, Indiana:
Thomas School Bus body assembly plant in High Point, North Carolina:
Same area of the manufacturing complex as of 2009:
An Oldsmobile-branded GM B-platform station wagon in the employee parking lot of the complex:
A Ford F-600 Medium-Duty truck as a box truck and an International Harvester/Navistar Class 8 tractor-trailer Heavy-Duty truck:
A building that looks like it was constructed in the 1930’s:
Another building that looks like it was constructed in the 1930’s:
These older buildings were in use during the time the photo below was taken:
The Ward/AmTran/IC Corp School Bus body manufacturing facility in Conway, Arkasnas:
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A Thomas Vista on the proprietary International 3600 chassis & cowl with the T444.
I prefer the DT360 and the DT466 diesel engines over the 7.3 liter IDI V8 and T444 diesel engines.
1998 Internation School Bus – New Kent County Public Schools Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1581475
A Thomas Rear Engine Safe-T-Liner with the Cummins B-platform engine and the Allison AT-545 transmission, like what John Roeck had bought in real life during the years 1992-1993; albeit with the Cummins C-platform engine and the Allison MT-643 transmission.
In ‘Early Life and Continuous Livelihood”, John Roeck continues to buy the Front Engine All-Americans instead of these Rear Engine Safe-T-Liners.
School Bus #295 – Chesapeake Public Schools Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1576222
Another Blue Bird All-American with the Cummins C-platform engine like what John Roeck buys in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”.
1998 BLUEBIRD 84 PASSENGER BUS – Page Unified School District #8 Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1560501
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