CBR Jeff

MZR restorations look great. The Singer of the Datsun world. Starting at about A$140k (£80k) I think they are pretty good value for what you get. Jeff

Thanks Peter that’s a ripper. I had been dancing around sorting this out. It was confusing to determine exactly what to do. My car is a 2/73 car and as best I can tell it’s the Original loom. Wiper wiring was 6 wires. So I took the Honda motor of the shelf and wired it as per your information and it’s perfect. Very simple. Thanks Jeff

Ryan. Nice work. Rear hanger bolts look like this. Hopefully with better condition thread. Jeff

Would be great to finally catch up. I think Malcom may have finally got his special registered this week. Sure I saw it with number plates on it this afternoon. Jeff

Like this! It could be a messy job and was often open to high jinx if the driver was a joker. Jeff

The steps are for the navigator ( they were not co drivers back then ) to stand on and the handles and to hang on to while jumping up and down when getting out of a boggy situation. very useful when the driver had a woopsy. Jeff

Alan. Is some of the accident damage on this car from an encounter to goats? I seem to remember reading about a work car having some problems with a herd of goats. Jeff

Peter For what it’s worth, my 240 centre section of the bar is as per your measurements @ 1295 ish actually 1292 but that’s splitting hairs. Jeff

It’s the vibe Dave the vibe Jeff

I think it looks fantastic. But I’m having trouble convincing the wife that she will need a new car soon, it should be manual and this is the car Jeff

Music video from Skeemers with 3 Z cars in it. Song aptly names fairlady . Skeemers are described as a Budapest based surf band from Hungary. Enjoy Jeff

Thumbs up. Yes that's the place. There is no fire wall yet rather referring to how Locky has repaired the front rails. Using the same process may or may not work for the fire wall? If you get what I mean. Jeff

Gee the poor old girl does have some rust! What condition is the panel at the bottom of the air plenum? On the inside of the rust in the fire wall? I’m guessing it’s not great as the rust would have started on that side. Best option for fixing the fire wall in my opinion would be to do something similar to what Locky did repairing the front rail/inner guard rust on the “Factory fresh” project. Cutting and removing the rusted section of the fire wall out and then replacing it. This may also allow access to the bottom of the plenum box to also repair it. Keep your head up it’s not that bad. There are several project in the pages of this forum that have been recovered from worse condition that your car. Jeff

This is a great story and a gorgeous car. Jeff

That’s a tidy looking car surprisingly priced for that vendor. But and it’s Mr Lees so be carful. Love the comment “let the nerds de code that”. Wonder who that’s aimed at? Jeff

At the local coffee shop today on the way back from rego inspection. Engineer is happy with only a couple of quite simple but important things to fix. Fuel line rubbing in two spots that were not possible to see until the car was on a hoist, change the vacuum hose on the break booster as it’s not the appropriate line and change the speedo drive on the gear box to the correct one so the speedo works. I’ll get these sorted and then go back probably next week. Jeff

Scotta They are 15x7 with +25 offset. Im going to run a 10mm spacer with the 205/55 tires. This gives the same scrub angle as STD. Jeff

Tim I have a set of used engine mounts. You pay for postage they are yours. Drop me a PM if you want them. Jeff

Grant you won’t have any problems moving it on I’m sure. Saw one sold late last year that was very rusty for quite a serious price. Jeff

Ouch. That’s quite a few projects. All achievable but will take a bit of time, perseverance and lots of patients. Jeff

Locky I wasn’t being totally serious. Rather a comment on exactly what you have said. You are a business and look at it that way. You spent other people money to get them the best outcome. As opposed to it being a hobby. BTW I totally agree with you. I spent ages working on my original bonnet. The reproduction ones were not available at the time. I was never 100% happy with it. So I recently picked up a preproduction one from MCP that I will paint at some stage and fit to the car. Probably would have just replaced the drivers site door if they were available as well. Jeff

The thrill and ease of spending other people money Jeff

Welcome Ryan. My car had a few rust spots along the passenger side in the turret. At the top of the A pillar I could cut it out and replace a section. Probably not as bad as yours though. Also the end of the gutters on both sides had some rust that I managed to cut out and replace sections. Rust was very localised. I borrowed an inspection camera and had a good poke around with in to make sure I had not missed any other spots. I also re soldered the body joints. Jeff

And that’s a fairly rust free car! Just imagine what’s hiding in other cars that are driving around. This is a great advertorial for CAF. Thanks for sharing Locky. Looking forward to the next instalment. Jeff

From little things big things grow . Nice work Locky or was it Gav? Jeff