Ed Higginbotham
Ed Higginbotham Associate Editor
2/13/18 3:54 p.m.
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Both the Nissan and Datsun marques will be featured at this spring’s Speedfest at the Classic Motorsports Mitty. The world-class historic race weekend returns to Road Atlanta April 27-29 with an event grand marshal who is closely tied to both brands: John Morton.

Although Morton’s career as a race …

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spitfirebill
spitfirebill MegaDork
2/14/18 6:15 a.m.

Is he going to wear those same glasses so we can recognize him?  

stu67tiger
stu67tiger Reader
2/14/18 7:04 a.m.

That picture... is that Bryar?  1971?   My pictures from '72 show a couple minor differences, the outer wall on the last turn was white rather than the darker look in your picture.  And in '72 there was a little driver air vent on the 510

Stu

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
2/16/18 8:20 a.m.
spitfirebill said:

Is he going to wear those same glasses so we can recognize him?  

Sadly he wears different glasses now. 

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
2/16/18 8:22 a.m.
stu67tiger said:

That picture... is that Bryar?  1971?   My pictures from '72 show a couple minor differences, the outer wall on the last turn was white rather than the darker look in your picture.  And in '72 there was a little driver air vent on the 510

Stu

That's a photo that we got from the PR department at Nissan, and judging by the file name, yeah, it could be from 1971.

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