Many of you may have read of our struggles to get my
son's '68 2000 ready for Solvang.
He had a slight lapse in attention to the road,
resulting in the front getting smashed, and broke a
shift fork in the transmission. After two months at
the mechanics and a month for body and paint it came
out just a week before Solvang.
He spent several days a week at Maaco in Palo Alto
looking at the book of paint samples and finally
decided on a light green metalic (non-stock). We got
a lot of favorable comments from the Solvang crowd,
and many who were amazed that it was a Maaco job.
Everyone seemed to like the color. I like it too,
even though the color change makes it quite clear to
me that this is NO LONGER MY ROADSTER. I have been
relegated to benefactor.
As benefactory, I was looking for any oportunity to
keep costs down, and decided to try using reproduction
MGB stainless steel side moulding instead of the
original Datsun parts. This is a daily driver, and
not a show car, so at $50 for a complete set of
moulding (including all of the fasteners) I felt it
was worth trying to make it work. The moulding
required a cut for the front piece and door piece.
The cut was done at the front of the door and rear of
the front piece, and came out pretty clean. I have
posted photos of the moulding at:
http://groups.msn.com/BADROC/pictures
The moulding came from Moss Motors, part number
453-478, if anyone is interested:
http://www.mossmotors.com/Shop/ViewProducts.aspx?PlateIndexID=29054
If anyone is looking for a less expensive alternative
to the original roadster moulding, I think these parts
from Moss are worth looking at.
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