Datsun Roadster Forum-311s.org

Hi folks!

I just joined. I bought my 66 1600 used as a high school kid in 1974. Then proceeded to drive the snot out of it through highschool an college. I parked it in my dad's barn in1981. Fast forward to June 2010 when I finally yanked it out of the barn and trailered it to my shop. It still had my highschool graduation tassel hanging on the rear view mirror, just like it did when I parked it there.

This car is in poor condition due to the Pennsylvania winters and frankly my ah' agressive driving as a teen. I am not deterred however. Right now the body is on my rotissare an I'm blasting the frame. I'm starting to gather up body parts and look forward to a long project.

The car certainly has more nostalgic value to me than it could ever be worth to anyone else, so it will be a labor of love. Check out the pics of ol rusty below

Nice meeting you all!

Regards,

Steve



.

welcome steve, looking forward to seeing you bring you this beauty back to life!

what a feel good story. welcome and have fun on the restore, post lots of pics and write ups as you go, and goodluck with your roadster.

Welcome, and great pics, and a nice Rotisserre too! (I really dig good tools!!) That looks lke a really nice shop space as well, almost too clean Are their 3 garage doors?
It's great that you have such a good connection to this car, it certainly looks like you have your work "cut-out" for you. (OK, admittedly bad pun referring to cutting out the rust!)
Please keep posting the pics, any available of the frame?? Some good before shots are always neat to see.
Thanks for sharing and good luck!

What part of PA? There are a few of us in that area, some with parts for free...

What a great barn find, right where you left it in 1981!

Welcome to the forum Steve.

I don't think it looks that bad. You could buy patch panels for almost every rusty area that I can see. Most every other area appears to be flat metal. Easy to fabricate. More pictures would be nice. Good luck and welcome.

datsun1500 wrote:What part of PA? There are a few of us in that area, some with parts for free...

Second that one, it's going to be cleanup time soon in my garage/basement/attic/closets

Thanks for the kind welcome.

I live near Gettysburg and certainly, I am interested in local stuff if available.

Thanks for comment on the rotissare, That was really step 1 on the project. I fabbed it up off of some plans my brother had.

On the Shop- I built the shop 4 years ago. My wife calls it the 8th wonder of the world. It totals 36X55 and is split for a heated clean side and a cold ,ah', dirty side. Clean side has hot water radiant heat in the floor, and floor professionaly coated. The dirty side has an area to back my car trailer and race car in, plus my Kubota. Right now part of the cold side is set up as a blast booth.

Here's some shots of the frame. It has some rust through up around the front swaybar pillars, but other than that it seems pretty solid.

Regards,
Steve

Steve, you are wasting no time i see. since you own a race car also, i have to ask, what are your plans on the engine? keeping it original or maybe looking at a swap???????

very jealous of your shop by the way.

There are some frames within driving distance of you if the rust is too bad.

sleepyzzz wrote:Steve, you are wasting no time i see.
very jealous of your shop by the way.

+1 INSANELY jealous of your garage!

My appologies to the roadster purists on the board. I was going to "ease in" to revealing my defective gene (as my wife calls it) Motor plan as shown below.



Regards,

Steve

can i raise that jealous feeling a hundred fold ? wish you were closer. i would love to come over and help with that.