New Zealand Datsun Club

This is my legendary 1200 (well in Hawkes Bay anyway) - Brendan swears i should never hav pulled it off the road but here is a few pics.....

This is when i first got the car back in 2001 - (Just brought as a run about as my corolla in the backround was evolving into a rally car.
I brought it purely as a run around as i knew nothing of the DATSUN brand back then - when i first came across it at a mates place (when he said he had a car for sale) i thought it was an Escort (shame on my Undies).
He had stated to paint strip it and had had big plans tobuild a race car out of it ( lucky i saved it )
Another one of my freinds (not from same group) had said he wanted one - and i super pissed him off when i rolled up in this one afternoon (especially when he found out how much i payed for it)
Also got 1st mod - mag wheels (off the corolla)




It was then down to my good mate Wayno's place to be panel beated and painted.
(anyone notice dads KE25 Hubbies)




A bit of paint and another set of wheels and Hey presto Daily 1200




She even went to the snow in those early years - bit of snow drift. (up the Taupo Road)
Gotta love the Drag Fitment - 155's front and 175's rear.




Another set of wheels a lowering job and foward to 2003 (met brendan around this time and he fell in love with this car - was the baddest dato in HB ahaha)




A few Cool pics from up Te Mata Peak Havelock North





Even used it in a Car Club Motokhana




Smoke is from exhaust - was getting tired by now - too mch thrashing, it just wouldnt die.
Was actually sideways thou.

A car for every occasion. Sounds like one of the family.

nice to see it being put to good use

Forward to 2006-now - Car is stripped/ semi put back together - rolling shell state.
Loading all parts for it, into it ready for next year - South Island here we come.

You'll also notice blue panels but ill save that story for tomorrow.

looks bad arse on the skyline rims. is that neg camber i see or just a photoshop tease

No photochoping here - just no diff and body sitting on the rim @ gangster camber angle.

I'm sure Chris would say, "it's still not low enough" haha.

cool car love the shape of these

This is where the blue panels came from - brought as daily so we could rebuild orange but then datsun bug hit and we brought tthe Y aswell.
As you can see it must have had a mega sound system - all fibreglassed in - but hadnt ben on the road in the last 10 years - or so the ownership papers said ( suspect plate swap as you do ).
We got the rear fixed up with new parcel tray etc anddrove it for around 2 years.
Decided to fix "a few rustspot" and Hello Jim.

There were no inner or outer sills - all fibreglassed up - with those dinky flare things on them.
The floor in pasengers side was barely connected to the car - also fibreglassed and masses of underseal.
I put a screwdriver through the bottom of the rear guard while taking back the bog and about 2 litres of rusty looking water pissed out.
The bottom of the two rear guards were non existent.
The front guards were bogged on at the bottom.
And lots more where that came form.


So decided to wreck it then and there - panel beater had seen nthing like it (mate still has shell so will take some picks for you guys (hes using roof and plates)

I would love to find the guys who owned it in Auckland before the guy i brought it off - they used a trailer load of bog and fibreglass to construct a rolling death trap (1200's are bad enuf without rust).

So anyway thats the story of the blue Panels on Orange - the glass is al deluxe (factory tint) and the doors are hadit but complete and bolted on so i can load Orange up for South Island.

Can you beleive they fibreglassed over the fueltank - dumbass's