The B10 Sunny was a very quaint and stylish little car, many of the styling features and crisp lines were reminiscent of Nissan's CSP311 Silvia coupe, which had gone on sale the year before. The car featured very large windscreens for a car of it's size, which when combined with it's delicate and thin roof pillars, gave the car a light and airy look. The inside of the car was fairly basic, though reasonably well presented. The lower section of the dashboard was painted the same colour as the body, and on top of that was a black padded dash top.
The first model Sunny B10 had a grille that featured seven horizontal bars and three vertical bars. The grille had a tall and narrow shield shaped emblem in the middle with a D in the centre. The tail lights on this model are a rectangular shape situated horizontally. The layout of the tail light has a stop light, then a reversing light and then an indicator.
The second version of the B10 Sunny came out in 1968. Everything on this car was pretty much the same as the 1966 model except for it's grille. The grille on this model has four wide horizontal bars, each with two thin horizontal bars between them. It also had 19 vertical bars. There is a wide and short shield shaped emblem in the middle of the grille. In countries were it was sold as a Sunny there is an S in the emblem, in countries where it was sold as a 1000 it has a D. The second version uses the same tail lights as the 1966 model.
The third and final version has a different grille again. This grille has three wide horizontal bars, and each of these bars has a thin bar above and below it. The tail lights on this model are different. The layout of the tail light has an indicator, then a stop light and then a reversing light.
In countries were the B10 was sold as a Sunny the badges on the side say Sunny, and on the back the badge says Sunny 1000. In countries were it was sold as a 1000, the badges on the side and back say Datsun. DeLuxe versions of all cars have a shield under the side badge that says deLuxe and a rectangular deLuxe badge under the rear badge.
Mechanically the B10 was interesting. Bizarrly for a late 1960s vehicle, it used an ancient transverse leaf spring front suspension design. This was an odd throwback in design, as every other passenger car since the turn of the decade had a much more modern independant front suspension design. The engine used was the new Nissan A10 engine, which was a 988cc pushrod 4 cylinder engine that produced 62hp. The A series engine was an all new engine based loosly on the old E series "Stone" engine, but vastly improved, with it's alloy head and four intake ports. The A series engine was a little gem, it was smooth, it reved way past 6000rpm, and most importantly it was totally reliable. These little engines are virtually indestructable.
The Datsun Sunny B10 was in production from April 1966 to January 1970. It was replaced by the Datsun Sunny B110, also known as the Datsun 1200.
