Can someone a lot more knowledgeable than me (not difficult) tell me why MBP 72J has different front indicators to the UK cars I'm used to seeing - that have the ones above the front bumper. No doubt there was some regulation meaning they had to be moved at some point?
It's a long story (you can ask Jon about it if you go to the show) but that car was essentially built as an Australian market car, and got 'diverted' to the UK for show/press duties. Notice also the absence of front indicator repeaters, as was common with Aus/NZ market cars. The first two cars imported to the UK were like this.
Then-new UK/Euro Type Approval regs in 1969/70 caught Nissan slightly on the hop, and it was found that the height of the standard design front indicators did not comply. They had to make a re-design of the front valance corners, and mounted indicators above the front bumper.
You'll sometimes hear the story that "the boat was diverted" from Aus to UK, but that's nonsense. The two cars were simply not sent from Japan to Aus, and were sent from Japan to UK - via mainland Europe (probably Antwerp?) - instead.