"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
04/29/2019 at 01:12 • Filed to: Datsun, 240Z
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"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
04/29/2019 at 01:12 • Filed to: Datsun, 240Z | 5
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So my Zs wheels a re dealer option slotted mags, and I didn’t think those were from Japan. I don’t have these on my car because we found one of them to be damaged, I was going thr ough my storage and I saw this sticker on a rim, never noticed it before . They are the original rims from the dealer, but all Zs were shipped with the steel wheels and caps. Dealers then had a few options. A few people tried to order the Seiko Kobe works rally wheels that you might know from the Z 432s. B ut many report them always being backordered and couldn’t get them. So many Americans went for the slotted aluminum wheels. But here is a sticker on my wheel saying it was inspected by Sugiyama San!? So I guess the dealer option wheels were made in Japan but not shipped by Nissan or made by them. This was before made in China, Japan would m ak e sense for manufacturing.
“ All regular production 240-Z’s shipped to North America were equipped with steel wheels and hubcaps. The 70/71 Model Year Z’s had 4.5" x 14" steel wheels with the “D” hubcaps and the 72/73 Model Year Z’s had 5"x 14" steel wheels with the “Z” hubcaps.”
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> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
04/29/2019 at 01:49 |
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Yeah at that time ‘Made in Japan’ had much the same cachet (and price tag) as ‘Made in China’ does now...
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04/29/2019 at 02:08 |
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Well Sugiyama San had his job in 1974, I found a reference to a sticker on wheels later on:
“ One inspection sticker is dated 74.7.29 (July 29, 1974). Wheels marked Japan A 6002 in casting. All 4 wheels inspected by H . Sugiyama .”
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> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
04/29/2019 at 03:43 |
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In those days and right up into recent years, Japanese blue collar workers often did much the same job for the same company for most of their career. They even have a word for it...but can't remember what it is and since I can't speak Japanese probably couldn't say it right anyway!
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415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
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04/29/2019 at 11:48 |
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I can’t remember either, but I think I used to know the term... not going to ask my wife (Japanese) right now, I will just get a look. It's still common today, in suit jobs anyway, when I lived there a few years ago I would see the people going out drinking with the boss and bowing to him when he got off the train. They are trying to get these idiotic expectations to go away, they are gone before the kids get up and home after they go to sleep, one guy told me.
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> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
04/29/2019 at 19:19 |
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Sounds a bit like what some aspire to here. I mean there is a fine balance between loyalty to one’s own company, work ethic, family, and that company’s loyalty to you. That last piece is super important because who I will work hard and sacrifice some of my time for corporate interests, they better do the same for me. And there was a time I felt that was a foregone conclusion. Because tenure matters but it’s a two way street