New Roadster Owner from France
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2021 3:29 pm
Hello !
One year ago, I bought a Datsun b110 4 doors sedan as a restoration project. I’ve always loved the Datsun brands and the models they made. 2 weeks ago, I was looking for B110 parts on the French equivalent of Craiglist, when I found a 1967 SPL311 to restore, the price was attractive then I sent it to my father. He always loved little British roadster, so it was pretty easy to convince him to buy it. The last week end we rent a tow truck to get the car (it was 500km away from us).
The roadster is a Canadian model which was imported in 2020. Obviously, for this range of price (4500€) we couldn’t expect a perfect example, but we were pretty confident because it was complete to some extent (missing spare tire and hubcaps..) Circa 2000’s, the car was badly restored (at least partially) with a lot of body filler on the left fender and some metal patchs to hide the rust. After some inspections, we figured out the fenders are mismatching. The previous canadian owners got some SPL310 parts (grille, tool kit, maybe some other parts but we didn’t find them yet)
The original early model fender (the left one) is very rusty but certainly reparable with enough labor time. So the questions is :
1) Do we replace the left fender, by a late model one
2) we repair the rusty one and buy the matching right fender (the one we have currently is also rusty, but seems easier to fix at first glance).
We would like to know your opinions about this choice.
We prefer the option 2.
We are very happy to own and restore a Roadster
Which is very different from British Convertible, and not usual here, in France (probably 5 on the road in the whole country)
Thanks for your answers and opinions !
Here are some photos of my b110, which is a barn find and hasn't run since 1979 (original french market model, again, very unsual and rare car)
The instagram account for both datsuns : https://www.instagram.com/datsunb110project/?hl=fr
DatsunGuys.
One year ago, I bought a Datsun b110 4 doors sedan as a restoration project. I’ve always loved the Datsun brands and the models they made. 2 weeks ago, I was looking for B110 parts on the French equivalent of Craiglist, when I found a 1967 SPL311 to restore, the price was attractive then I sent it to my father. He always loved little British roadster, so it was pretty easy to convince him to buy it. The last week end we rent a tow truck to get the car (it was 500km away from us).
The roadster is a Canadian model which was imported in 2020. Obviously, for this range of price (4500€) we couldn’t expect a perfect example, but we were pretty confident because it was complete to some extent (missing spare tire and hubcaps..) Circa 2000’s, the car was badly restored (at least partially) with a lot of body filler on the left fender and some metal patchs to hide the rust. After some inspections, we figured out the fenders are mismatching. The previous canadian owners got some SPL310 parts (grille, tool kit, maybe some other parts but we didn’t find them yet)
The original early model fender (the left one) is very rusty but certainly reparable with enough labor time. So the questions is :
1) Do we replace the left fender, by a late model one
2) we repair the rusty one and buy the matching right fender (the one we have currently is also rusty, but seems easier to fix at first glance).
We would like to know your opinions about this choice.
We prefer the option 2.
We are very happy to own and restore a Roadster
Which is very different from British Convertible, and not usual here, in France (probably 5 on the road in the whole country)Thanks for your answers and opinions !
Here are some photos of my b110, which is a barn find and hasn't run since 1979 (original french market model, again, very unsual and rare car)
The instagram account for both datsuns : https://www.instagram.com/datsunb110project/?hl=fr
DatsunGuys.
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