Project Classic Datsun: 1966 Datsun Roadster (1600) Restoration Progress

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Oct 11, 2010 | 03:39 PM

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Re: Project Classic Datsun: 1966 Datsun Roadster (1600) Restoration Progress

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Thanks

The good car had vinyl just laid over the top of the dash with padding underneath. However, it didn't have anything that surrounded the dash itself, which is why I chose to rebuild the existing dash. Plus the dash is really one of my favorite parts on the car, I couldn't half ass it. If this little venture doesn't work out, I'll be buying a new dash pad..lol

They make plastic dash caps for the later style dash.

They're pretty decent, at least for the Z cars. The factory plastic was kind of crap anyway.

http://www.stockinteriors.com/DashCa...38&ModelId=611

Oct 11, 2010 | 04:03 PM

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Re: Project Classic Datsun: 1966 Datsun Roadster (1600) Restoration Progress

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Yea the caps for the later cars are pretty decent fit/finish. They don't make one for the flat dash cars though. It's either fix the existing one or buy a brand new repo (which are extremely nice).

Oct 11, 2010 | 04:20 PM

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Re: Project Classic Datsun: 1966 Datsun Roadster (1600) Restoration Progress

omg this is so gangster.

Oct 11, 2010 | 04:44 PM

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Re: Project Classic Datsun: 1966 Datsun Roadster (1600) Restoration Progress

Interesting.

And IMHO that silver is AWESOME looking on that "insipration" car.

Oct 11, 2010 | 04:52 PM

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omg this is so gangster.

Haha I hope it will be

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Interesting.

And IMHO that silver is AWESOME looking on that "insipration" car.

Yes, I generally hate silver cars too..

Oct 11, 2010 | 04:55 PM

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Re: Project Classic Datsun: 1966 Datsun Roadster (1600) Restoration Progress

Silver is very much a depends-on-the-light type of color. Iv grown to love it, expecially clean.

Oct 11, 2010 | 05:23 PM

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Oct 11, 2010 | 08:49 PM

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This is looking awesome! Looking forward to more progress!

Oct 12, 2010 | 06:49 PM

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Re: Project Classic Datsun: 1966 Datsun Roadster (1600) Restoration Progress

More pics of the console progress tomorrow.

In the meantime, I thought long and hard about wheel choice for this car and was dead set on Watanabe's, untill I cam across these, and bought them..lol:

Panasport Racing G7 C8R (Forged 3-piece)