A tale of two Zed Cars....

[Robert Campbell]

 

[Robert Campbell]

The test pieces were checked for colour on the original 141 metallic brown.

 

[Robert Campbell]

Then, just as I was on a good run, my first child decided to arrive early!

Ariyeh was born on 18 Nov 18...

 

[Robert Campbell]

I decided to do a photographic paternity test:

 

[Robert Campbell]

Then back to the car today and it looks like this:

 

[Robert Campbell]

 

[Robert Campbell]

So, all in all, a good time to be alive....

 

[uk66fastback]

Excellent Robert. Congrats on both fronts!

 

[IbanezDan51]

Looks fantastic!

 

[Robert Campbell]

Well, as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted by a little person, the last 18 months have seen very little Datsun activity and a heap of other tribulations, but the project has been reactivated.

 

[Robert Campbell]

First thing to do was to take stock and find all the parts required, from three locations. Last year I got a workshop and in the process of moving stuff between my house, my mum’s garage, Dave’s body shop and Alan’s garage, the stuff got put into plastic boxes and mixed up. Most of the engine stuff is with Alan and after painting the engine, I polished the rocker cover and we started putting the engine together.

 

[Robert Campbell]

 

[Robert Campbell]

My task prior to putting in the rebuilt engine and gearbox is to get the dashboard refurbed as so many interfaces are straight from the engine to the dash. I have a new dash to replaced the cracked and rotten previous one.

 

[Robert Campbell]

 

[Robert Campbell]

Once the loom, clocks and screws were out, the old dash just crumbled in my hands, confirming they are not worth trying to save. Once it’s all gone, just left with a aluminium chassis.

 

[Robert Campbell]

The clocks themselves needed some cleaning as they had lots of dust inside and the lenses were covered on 48 years of baked on crap. The lenses were also scratched so I used some cutting agent to clean and polish them

 

[Robert Campbell]

The plastics of the bezels were also quite rough, so cut those too then used some simonitz to polish them.

 

[peter_s]

The clocks themselves needed some cleaning as they had lots of dust inside and the lenses were covered on 48 years of baked on crap. The lenses were also scratched so I used some cutting agent to clean and polish themView attachment 38948View attachment 38949

Which product did you use?

 

[Robert Campbell]

Then the radio I got from another member needed a refresh.

 

[Robert Campbell]

Which product did you use?

T-Cut on the lenses and T-Cut colourfast black on the bezels.