For my 1 year anniversary and 100th blog post at MyRideisMe.com I share with you a classic Japanese land speed racecar, err... truck, a Datsun 620. I spotted it on the Japanese Nostalgic Car blog/website HERE. If you don't have this on your blog reader, go ahead and add it now. The picture credit goes out to Stephen Rosinni, a professional photographer out of NY. According to JNC's blog post, the Datto truck belongs to Barry Brown of Riter Automotive and was run at the Maxton Mile recently. It runs in the F/PMP class (F = 2.01 - 3.0 liter, PMP = Production mini/mid pickup) with a 2 liter that makes about 220hp equipped with Nissan 50mm race carbs and a Nissan 5 speed. The #1620 truck broke the class record of 119mph by running 123 in the standing mile. The Riter Automotive crew, out of Rochester, NY, plans on running at Bonneville this year. Hopefully we can bring you all some more pics and details. Of course, when it runs at B'ville, we'll hopefully bring you news of another broken record. I was curious, so I checked out the BNI class record...
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