R.I.P. My little pocket rocket

[Loganw]

Alright my hart is broken in more ways than one.
My poor we pocket rocket (blue race car) has died and I am on the look out for a sedan or coupe shell or whatever as a donner body.
Whats out there guys? Any help would be appreciated.

What happened:
Well to cut the story very short I wrapped it round a power pole its not a good tail, I am still beaten and brused and the guy with me is still in hospital. Any of you with rollcages check your strength for side impact center of the sill I had 1 bar and it did fuk all.

[Datto_610]

Sucks to hear that man, really hope your mate pulls through!

[Datto1200]

Sorry to hear. are you after a 1200 sedan as I have a pretty mint shell I may part with.
I'll put a photo of my 1200 rally car up of roll cage. We put extra bars in after seeing my uncles wrx crash. The roof was on the dash and car was a banana from front to back. Hit tree at 100+ kms. Tree won

[Bartman]

Good on you for wanting to get back on the Horse Logan.
I was pretty gutted to hear about your mishap. And part of me thought, he'll be over datto's after that. (I lost interest in them for a good while after 250 stitches in my head, the loss of sight in one eye, and a week in hosptial) But once you've had the Dat, you always come back..........

[Naki-Fisher]

Yea mate It's pissed me off so much everything was starting to fall into place nicely.
My passenger has improved slightly so that's a big bonus, drove passed the site and I'm dammed if I know how we ended up where we did.
Need to get the car back to check a few things, as I remembered a couple of days later there was a lot more scraping in the back than the last time i drove it.
Just prior to the accident we were speaking about it.

Datto 1200
I'd prefer a sedan as that is what it was so please PM me some detials.
Thanks for the Photo as that looks like what i will want after seeing what happened to mine. Once I get it back I'll get some photos.

Cheers for you support guys

Naki aka LoganW

[classicdat]

Mate, gutted. Hope your mate improves quickly.
Great to hear you still got the bug, when I totalled my 1200 I made the mistake of replacing it with a Sunny, once you've had a 1200 nothing else will do
All the best Logan.

[Kitch]

Logan. Sorry to hear of your accident.

Thoughts are with Pete, and yourself, and hope you can both make a full recovery from this.

If you cant find anything in the North Island, my mate has a shell down here in Timaru, but the cost of transport would make it non-viable I would expect. Sounds like Datto1200 can hopefully sort you out.

Chin up bud.

[Loganw]

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Hey lads
Its not the easiest to post these but please note the weakness around the sill area. If you are racing one of these or have a high performance one consider strengthening ya cage around this area. The out come of my accident could have been very different 6 inches forwards or backwards but sometimes shit and bad luck come together at the wrong time and honestly if I can save one person by posting this information it's worth it.

Thanks Datto 1200 for the pic on how it should be done.

[nzdatman]

Holy shit that's an eye opener! How is the passenger?
I think I'll be doing a bit if strengthening along the lines of that other cage pic posted

[Bartman]

That wouldn't even have taken that hard a hit either.
The old 1200's are made of shit. (That's why they are so fast)
I know a guy who had to get cut out of a 1200 too. Broke his femur in two. He said he couldn't believe how the car just folded up around him.