Eric,
Thanks for the kind words!
The answer to the dual exhaust is the PO had a custom header made
with two collectors one for each side.
One thing Eric didn't mention is that the unrestored car has been under
tarps for about 5 years. Rust has started to form were the tarps
made contact with the body work. In the future, I will not you use
plastic tarps to cover a car. They allow water to get trapped and
can cause rusting. I compared the car with the pictures I took when I
received it there was little rust on it five years ago.
Eric didn't mention that are road trip included a stop at Farrugut State
Park. This site I have picked out for a future Datsun get together.
I have spoken with the 510 again editor Tiel Hicks and he seemed
interested in helping me. The pic nick area has 4 horse shoe pits,
two volleyball courts, covered pick nick area with barbeques,
swimming, and even a 18 hole Frisbee golf course. There is plenty
of camping along the lake. There is even a submarine base close by.
The lake is over 1200' deep in spots excellent for testing sonar.
Anyone interested in coming to an event in August contact me
so I can see if it is worth it to plan one.
Mike
Hayden Lake, Idaho
"Eric R. Wittinger" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I went up and visited Mike Poorboy last weeeknd. All the way up in
> Idaho... What a great visit, Mike treated me to a homemade breakfast, a
> nice warm bed for both myself and my car ( a garauge). There was lots of
> talking and speculating about the future of our roadsters, restore,
> racing...
>
> Mike is the proud owner of 2 69 2L cars one nice with a soon to have
> complet rebuild on the motor to go with the nice paint. the other car is
> in nee of some cosmetic work and paint, nothing too bad so soo there will
> be one more roadster on the road. A note with his spare, when we pulled
> off the tarp nd looked it over, I noticed it had dual exaust, a pipe run
> down either side through the frame, kind of cool, makes me wonder what
> header they use to have in there.
>
> Not to mention the great hospitality from Mike, the town/city of Coeurd'
> Alene has lots of neat suprizes to see, great out door activities and old
> Datsuns hidden all over the place. A choice place to visit...
>
> Eric
>
> Mike also scaned in some images of his cars (still learning to use the
> scaner, but not too bad of a job for his first run) they are curretnly
> posted on my web page, but I hear mike is make a web page of his own soon
> to be out..
>
> http://www.ee.pdx.edu/~wittiner/poorboy.html
>
> The pictures are kind of big,( but small file sizes).
>
> | Eric R Wittinger |
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