Start with what the Datsun Truck is: a 2-door pickup / 2-door double cab pickup / 3-door van/panel van with 860 , built from 1955 to 1934, at the height of the post-war boom. What it meant takes a little longer.
The background
The Datsun Truck is a compact pickup truck made by Nissan in Japan from 1955 to 1997. It was originally sold under the Datsun brand, but this was switched to Nissan in 1983. It was replaced in 1997 by the Frontier and Navara. In Japan, it was sold only in Nissan Bluebird Store locations.
The engineering
The engine is 860 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Drive goes through a 4-speed manual. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Datsun line-up the Datsun Truck has a clear place: it replaced the Datsun 6147; it handed the line to the Nissan Navara; the factory was Nissan Shatai, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL, the Nissan Skyline. Its Datsun stablemates include the 280Zx and the 310.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Datsun Truck — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.