Yeah, I am beginning to see that you almost -HAVE- to own two or more
roadsters so you can always have one running while you play/work on the
other, lol.
Seriously, I am pondering on the overall condition of that '66. Is it in
that bad condition that it's only value is as a parts car? Shame to rip it
apart if it's a somewhat complete project because that's one more roadster
gone forever.
Btw, just curious - what's "cheap enough"? Any pics? Is it registered on the
311s.org site?
Just my two centavos....
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Pete - (O o) -
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Lake Forest Park, WA
1966 1600 (SPL311-00799)
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-datsun-roadsters@Autox.Team.Net
[mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@Autox.Team.Net] On Behalf Of Dan Neff
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 2:29 PM
To: Roadster Listgroup
Subject: ponderings...
I've been warming up to the idea of body/paint work on my car, since I've
'bout got the mechanicals 100%. One thought had been to see about finding a
roadster with body/paint already done (at least rust free) and doing a swap
for the best of both cars into one... presumably putting my motor/trans into
a 2nd car.
Originally the idea was to come up with a cheaper body/paint fix than
running mine down to a body shop.. But then I ran into a '66 1600 the other
day. Actually the body wasn't any better than mine, but it got me to
thinking that if I got it cheap enough, it'd be kinda cool because I could
pull the body off and do a complete body/paint job without downtime on my
daily driver.. But I'm not impressed with the condition of the brakes,
front- end, suspension, etc, and got to wondering what anybody thought of
putting the '66 body on my '68 frame? Is that a clean swap? I know wiring
would be different. Steering column? Tach and speedo? Bad idea?
While I'm generally a purist, my car is a mutt anyway - '68 frame, '69
front, '68 rear body, '68-'69 wiring, '69 engine, so if I'm going to be a
heretic, how cool would a flat dash low windshield be on a '68-'69? An
UltiMutt! :) Thoughts appreciated...
dan neff '69 2000
colorado springs, co
http://www.wycroc.org
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