Datsun Thailand organized the 4th Datsun Festival attended by over 500 Datsun cars and owners.
Spectators from everywhere arrived to gawk at cars, some as old as 61 years old. For this 4th Datsun Festival 2013, Siam Motors collaborated with the Datsun Thailand Club hoping to stimulate Pattaya tourism and allow citizens, who love old cars, to get close and take pictures with rare classic cars.
The event was declared open at Kiatphum Hall with Dr. Thaworn Pornprapha (Siam Motors) and Tawan Surongdecha, president of the Datsun Thailand club. In addition, there was also a presentation of Datsun legends, which were the most popular car in the 1960’s, until it became Nissan.
Datsun Festival 2013.
Nissan cars was founded in 1933 and in the next year, the company had been registered as Nissan Motor Co. by Yoshisukae Ikawa, building trucks, planes and engines for the Japanese war effort.
The first Nissan officially imported to Thailand was by Siam Motors in 1964. The popularity of Datsun became widely known with the Datsun Changyieb (Stepped on by Elephant) promotion in 1972, placing an elephant on the truck as a show of strength of the vehicle.
