

I shot this one a few years back, and have never gotten around to writing it up. And they were still pretty common here a few years back, including a number of coupes. Which made it a very common sights on our streets. The B210 arrived at a fortuitous moment in history in the fall of 1973, right as the first energy crisis kicked off. This seems to be turning into a Honey Bee CC, even if we don’t have the real thing on our hands. Which would you have gotten? And yes, that’s a non-Honey Bee B210 wheel cover, despite it having a honeycomb design. Presumably Honey Bee owners had a choice depending on which one suited their personality. Floor trim: Black only (Black or Brown in California)īut for 1976, the stripe was made bigger.Īnd check this out: there were two variations of the actual Honey bee this is the “racer bee”.Īnd this is the “flying bee”, or maybe “stoned bee” might be more accurate.Interior Trim: Black or Beige only (Deluxe has Black, Blue or Brown).Front seat is folding only, instead of reclining + forward-folding.


Or stimulate sales after gas prices stabilized again. It arrived in 1975, one year after the the unsweetened regular B210, and presumably it was a way to keep its price low during a time of considerable inflation. Datsun’s take on the Chevette Scooter, except as the ad points out, it comes with a standard back seat. The Datsun Honey Bee was a way of giving the cheapest stripper version in the line a bit of…buzz. Obviously the folks at Datsun USA headquarters ate a lot of the stuff, and were duly inspired.

And most of all, it was cheap probably the cheapest sugar delivery system per ounce. In my candy-eating days of yore, this was one of my favorites. But given its honey color, we have to give this one an appropriate name: Bit OK, so Honey Bees are suffering from the same issue as real bees still, you’d think there was one left. Now that certainly shouldn’t be grounds for disappointment, as B’s all seem to have disappeared along with real honey bees, which are of dying off at staggering rates. But as I wended my way between rows of silver CUVs and got closer to it, I realized it was just a plain old B210. That mellow-honey colored peanut of a car just screamed “B210 Honey Bee” to me, something that has eluded me thus far in my hunting. This kind of bee hive is very suitable for beekeeping beginners.From some distance across the parking lot, I thought maybe I was really going to score.
