I didn't mention it in the original note, but I did the wheel arches, too. There
was a roadster racer up here that had a similar paint scheme and I really liked
it. Made the wheel wells look radiused from a distance.
Actually, that paint job helped me get the car back after it was stolen in 1979.
I got talking with a police officer a week after the theft when I called in to
see if there had been any progress, and he remembered the description as having
matched one that had been picked up. He checked into it and it turned out the
towing company had written the VIN number down wrong!
Gordon Glasgow
Renton, WA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Southwell [mailto:rulee@cityscape.net]
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:49 AM
> To: Gordon Glasgow
> Cc: roadster List
> Subject: Re: Roadster styling (was originality thread)
>
>
> Miine is still painted black, as is the grill, and 1 1/2" stripe
> arond the bottom
> edge
> from front to back including wheelwell arches(PO)
> Russ Southwell 70 1600 sora blue and black
> Gordon Glasgow wrote:
>
> > If you look at Hidehiro IIzuka's early stying sketches as
> reproduced in Phill
> > Brook's (excellent) book, it appears that the tailights and
> relatively flat rear
> > panel were part of the design from the very beginning. I think the
> taillights
> > have a rather jet-exhaust look, which was quite common in that era.
> >
> > Of course, the panel isn't completely flat but rather has some interesting
> > contours, which I'm sure has caused no end of grief to
> less-than-knowledgeable
> > body men.
> >
> > By 1969 Triumph had picked up the flat rear panel idea in the
> Michelotti/Karmann
> > designed TR6, which I always thought looked great. In fact, at one time I
> > painted the rear panel on my roadster flat black like the Triumph (partly to
> > hide corrosion).
> >
> > Gordon Glasgow
> > Renton, WA
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> > > [mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of snyler
> > > Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 5:08 PM
> > > To: Mark Sedlack; roadster List
> > > Subject: Roadster styling (was originality thread)
> > >
> > >
> > > Mark Sedlack wrote
> > >
> > > >However, I personally have never liked the "flat" rear-end panel on the
> > > >Roadster, and have always suspected it was due primarily to ease of
> > > >manufacture, rather than a planned styling detail.
> > > I've wondered about the back recently myself. Perhaps it's a cost thing,
> > > perhaps the roadster was ahead of its time, anticipating the Kamm-back
> > > styling of the late 60s. I used to think the taillights were stuck
> > > on...items pulled from the Nissan parts bin, but they're unique to the
> > > roadster. If they'd used Bluebird (311) taillights of the era (which
> > > look like they might fit) there'd be much more of an MGB resemblance. I
> > > know the Roadster had its debut a year earlier, but it's hard enough to
> > > convince folks of the order of appearance as it is.
> > > -Marc T.
> > >
> > > ==========================================================================
> > > Marc Tyler TDROC Sisterdale TX
> > > 1970 1600 #SPL311-31016
> > > 1965 L-320 #L320 013642
> > > http://datsun_marc.tripod.com/cgi-bin/datsun_homepage.html
> > >
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