Picked up my first Roadster the summer of 1990 from a retired Datsun
mechanic. He had the car stored in a lot for many years. When he gave me the
keys to look at the car, he mentioned he was storing some "stuff" in the
car, including a foam mattress.
Well, I went out to the car and only took a cursory look. The inside of the
car was a mess with a lot of shredded/ripped up paper on the passenger foot
well and behind the passenger seat. It was so dirty, that I didn't even open
the car doors. However, one thing I mentally noted was the absence of the
foam mattress the owner was speaking about..
Without much conversation with the owner, I bought the car cheap and had it
dragged it home on a flatbed. A week later I started the restoration. When I
opened the car to start cleaning, the mystery of the foam mattress came to
light.
During the years of storage, Rats had invaded the car and EATEN the
mattress! Under all the paper shreads was a solid mess of RAT TURDS 1 inch
deep throughout the passenger floorboads. Between the mixture of turd and
the moisture that had seeped into the car/floorboards was an ultra
disgusting mess.
Nice find, huh?!?
Dan (Always cringe when Leigh calls his car the RATSTER) Zubkoff
San Mateo, CA
1966 SPL311 1600
1967 SRL311 2000
>From: Andy Cost <andycost@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Andy Cost <andycost@earthlink.net>
>To: datsunsport <datsunsport@ca.inter.net>, datsun
><datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: strange findings in roadsters.
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:12:07 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
>
>Wow! I'm going to go rip all the upholstery out of the 10 seats I've got
>laying around. Maybe I'll be as lucky.
>
>Andy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: datsunsport <datsunsport@ca.inter.net>
>Sent: Oct 5, 2004 9:28 AM
>To: datsun <datsun-roadsters@Autox.Team.Net>
>Subject: strange findings in roadsters.
>
>A local customer 10 years ago bought a very tired 69 2000 from a shady
>guy. The car was rusted, bent and modified. It came with MGB seats. When
>Randy went to pick up the car, the previous owner made him take all the
>spares out of the garage as he was finished with datsun roadsters. In
>the pile of debris were the original; seats from the car. tattered and
>torn, Randy really did not want them. All or nothing was the deal. Randy
>loaded up all the parts and car and piled them into his garage. He then
>proceeded to start the restoration of a very rusty( frame replaced),
>banged up roadster. He did a beautiful job. Time came to redo the MGB
>seats or the roadster seats. I convinced him that the roadster seats
>were the way to go. He called me up one day to thank me for keeping the
>original seats: tucked away in the folds of the original seats was a wad
>of bills: $635!!!!!. he recovered the seats and had a little left over
>to spend on his roach turned roadster.
>
>Ross
>sports imports
>
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