You won’t find many of these at classic car shows except, perhaps, in Japan. This humble but attractive oldie is the first car built by Nissan, a 1933 Datsun 12. (Most of you will recall that for much of its history, Nissan cars were manufactured with the Datsun nameplate.) The Datsun 12 Phaeton certainly deserves a place of honor in our Classical Drive site as the company celebrates the building of 100,000,000 vehicles, which, by anyone’s standards, is an impressive number. Initially Nissan was known as “Jidosha-Seizo Co., Ltd” (Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd) but changed its name to Nissan in 1935 when the Yokohama Plant became the first facility in Japan to mass-produce automobiles. Today Nissan is owned by Renault, one of the auto industry’s pioneers.

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