WazzaJB
Club Member
Hey everyone
It's been a hell of a long time since I posted on here, sincerely hope everyone has been doing well! I have tried to keep up to date but fell pretty short of that.
Long story short, some family and I bought a small-holding to build our dream houses on, which has been my primary focus. I get a pretty decent workshop out of it, which was the goal for me to house the Datsun and an office.
With that going on for the last 18 months, the 280Z has been really neglected (although dry stored in a barn at least!).
I'm realistically not going to get any time to work on the Datsun and it's been a bit unloved... Basically doing the bare minimum to keep it on the road so I could take it out for half an hour every few months.
I've decided to leave it with some friends for them to do the work for me, they specialise in classic restorations (They had a few Aston Martins, a Mustang, and a Golf GTI in when I visited them). I'm confident they will take good care of it and they are very like minded so understand my vision for the car. Figured I would try and keep this thread up to date to kind of document the process.
This is the car when I first saw it before collecting it from Chris:
So... As of 2 weeks ago this was it:
To date all I have done to it is:
- Removed US Bumpers
- Atara Psiang 15"
- BC Racing Coilovers
- Corbeau Seats
- Skillard Grill with 240z Indicators
- Rear Strut Bar with Harnesses
This was the picture I got the following week captioned "No turning back now":
I don't want to say too much about where it's going because things can change, but I will certainly do my best to keep this thread going!
It's been a hell of a long time since I posted on here, sincerely hope everyone has been doing well! I have tried to keep up to date but fell pretty short of that.
Long story short, some family and I bought a small-holding to build our dream houses on, which has been my primary focus. I get a pretty decent workshop out of it, which was the goal for me to house the Datsun and an office.
With that going on for the last 18 months, the 280Z has been really neglected (although dry stored in a barn at least!).
I'm realistically not going to get any time to work on the Datsun and it's been a bit unloved... Basically doing the bare minimum to keep it on the road so I could take it out for half an hour every few months.
I've decided to leave it with some friends for them to do the work for me, they specialise in classic restorations (They had a few Aston Martins, a Mustang, and a Golf GTI in when I visited them). I'm confident they will take good care of it and they are very like minded so understand my vision for the car. Figured I would try and keep this thread up to date to kind of document the process.
This is the car when I first saw it before collecting it from Chris:
So... As of 2 weeks ago this was it:
To date all I have done to it is:
- Removed US Bumpers
- Atara Psiang 15"
- BC Racing Coilovers
- Corbeau Seats
- Skillard Grill with 240z Indicators
- Rear Strut Bar with Harnesses
This was the picture I got the following week captioned "No turning back now":
I don't want to say too much about where it's going because things can change, but I will certainly do my best to keep this thread going!