At Last in colour

[Fairlineguy]

A few months later than planed . Received the attached photo from my painter to show that the car is at last in colour.
Can't wait to go over to see it.

 

[uk66fastback]

Fantastic. So is this still Datsun 918 or a very close match? I'm sure I read somewhere if a lot of 918 cars meet in the US etc, the variations are many!

Is an 100% accurate match using modern paint possible? Is there a code for it still?

You must be aching to get over there, I know I would be ... !

Once you see a shell in paint, it just makes everything you took off the car look, well, sub-standard, one thing leads to another and a year later, you're putting the finishing touches to a 100% resto!

Love it though!

 

[Alphabettispaghetti]

That looks nice, it'll look more orange under normal light. Off to see my orange one on Tuesday

 

[johnymd]

How close, would you see, is it to the orange on the club site banners?

 

[RIDDLER]

Absolutely love the look of that! No wonder you can't wait.

 

[Fairlineguy]

I didn't stay with the original 918 as a sample spray out looked a bit to terracotta for my liking
(Wanted a slightly pastel orange.)
It was a toss up between going Repsol orange but ended up with this VW orange.
Will be interesting to see it in the day light and once it's been cut back and polished

 

[Alphabettispaghetti]

This was my match of 918, it looked spot on to me, the engine bay has been stripped back again since this.




Under the spray booth light it looked like this...

 

[SacCyclone]

As two of my s30's are orange, I'm partial to this color for sure. Beautiful job so far and can't wait to see the final result.

 

[Fairlineguy]

Called in this morning to have a look at paint work .Still waiting de nibbling / polishing but looking good in natural light

 

[Alphabettispaghetti]

That looks lovely. The colour looks so much better in the right light doesn't it.

 

[Alphabettispaghetti]

What did the car look like when it was LHD?

 

[Fairlineguy]

Here are a couple of pictures of her before swop to RHD
At least all the dirty stuff is done she was originally orange 918

 

[johnymd]

Looking great and a nice RHD conversion.

 

[Albrecht]

Looks really nice. Good colour choice, and all the more so since it was originally 918.

Is that a 'late' (post '73?) bulkhead doubler panel? Is that going to have an impact on what you can/can't mount to it?

Are you keeping the original HLS30-prefixed chassis number?


Registration number on the trailer made me smile...

 

[uk66fastback]

Looks fantastic. I didn't realise this was once a LHD import until now.

Seems like this should be one of the reference pieces on the club site - a definitive guide to changing a LHD S30 to a RHD one ... no doubt there are loads of things you have to do, change, fab up, block off, weld up, buy, sell etc to do it.

Unless there's a comprehensive guide on the 'net already somewhere. But with not that (m)any being converted in the US (why would you?) I'm guessing not.

 

[Fairlineguy]

Looks really nice. Good colour choice, and all the more so since it was originally 918.

Is that a 'late' (post '73?) bulkhead doubler panel? Is that going to have an impact on what you can/can't mount to it?

Are you keeping the original HLS30-prefixed chassis number?


Registration number on the trailer made me smile...

Want to keep the HLS30 chassis number and get an age related plate .Car is March 1970
I will have to use some of the later donor car hard wear with the bulkhead plate.
Have tried to replicate the bulkhead as best as possible .its now hard to tell that it was once LHD

 

[Fairlineguy]

Looks fantastic. I didn't realise this was once a LHD import until now.

Seems like this should be one of the reference pieces on the club site - a definitive guide to changing a LHD S30 to a RHD one ... no doubt there are loads of things you have to do, change, fab up, block off, weld up, buy, sell etc to do it.

Unless there's a comprehensive guide on the 'net already somewhere. But with not that (m)any being converted in the US (why would you?) I'm guessing not.

Nice to know that the conversion passes the test.
There was more to it than I first imagined .I wanted the bulkhead especially to look correct .

 

[Alphabettispaghetti]

Want to keep the HLS30 chassis number and get an age related plate .Car is March 1970
I will have to use some of the later donor car hard wear with the bulkhead plate.
Have tried to replicate the bulkhead as best as possible .its now hard to tell that it was once LHD

Good man. What's your chassis number? Mines Oct 70.

 

[Fairlineguy]

Good man. What's your chassis number? Mines Oct 70.

Hi My chassis no is HLS30-03305

 

[Fairlineguy]

Well she is at last home from the paint shop.Some very tender moments loading and un loading from the trailer .
Now where to start?