Datsun 120Y First Inspection

[nisfan]

Ill be collecting a piece of brown chod of 1978 vintage tonight, FOAD has kindly agreed to drive me over to glasgow in his fine new chariot,

 

Unadulterated luxury, hopefully get a pez station shot in the coming hours

[nisfan]

Well what a fucking nightmare, the rain was horrendous and joining the motorway the wipers packed in, roadworks on the motorway meant no hard shoulder, heavy traffic, no vision and had to travel 2 miles before finding a gap to pull in. Wiggled the fuses and they started working again until 10 miles down the motorway it happened again, more wiggling and on they came.

Further along the worst happened , pissing down, standing water it started to lose power, then started dying, managed to pull off a slip road and park up at the junction then it cut out and wouldnt start. Opened bonnet, water everywhere, fuck!. The rain eased off and after half an hour got the car started and made it home eventually!

 

[oldcars]

Very nice does it need much work?

[Split_Pin]

Sounds horrendous. The end result totally looks like it was worth it though!!

[adw1977]

Sounds like quite an ordeal, but now you own a brown Datsun, so overall win!

[eddyramrod]

I had a similar ordeal in 1978 with my first A40.  It suffered HGF and didn't survive many months afterwards, but at 19, you don't think anything of doing motorway journeys at 68mph in an 18 year old car with 39bhp....

 

Nice Datsun, btw!

[cort16]

I saw this for sale on RR and looks like it has a lot of potential. Not sure I'd have had the stones to drive it home mind you.

[Spottedlaurel]

Excellent news! Not the bit about the wipers etc though.

[saucedoctor]

Proper nice that.

[nisfan]

it goes fine but the clutch is very on/off and has just been replaced, needs welding and there are  a few blebs that could get worse very fast, on the whole its good for the price.

Had it not rained there wouldnt have been an issue

[320touring]

It looked an honest car in the advert!

 

John at Restalrig cars in Edinburgh will mibbe have parts for this- when I last spoke to him he had about 40 jap retro cars

[nisfan]

an honest car and an honest seller, he offered to take the car back after i told him what happened.
I really need to head over to ERC one day if only to chat old jap motors!

[garbaldy]

I managed to refrain from pming the datty seller as they are ace cars, it looks a nice motor from the pics.

 

John used to be on here years ago when he bought my Lt can't remember his handle although it may have been his garage name.

 

Does he still do loads of track days?

[dollywobbler]

Wow. MOAR PICS!

[Spottedlaurel]

Apparently it was for sale at £1250 in Blackburn back in 2010.

[nisfan]

It was owned by a guy who owns many datsuns, think he's called shatz on forums, sold to a guy in surn iron then to a guy in norn iron then to Glasgow then to me. Still has surn iron plates in the boot!

[Laseraligningfoofooflanges]

Noice!!

[nisfan]

It's in a bit of worse condition than it was back then, the guy I bought it off paid 1200 took it home , mot'ed it then seen it needed welding and gave up

[captain_70s]

Well what a fucking nightmare

See, that's these bloody foreign jobs for you, should have bought a proper British car...

 

That looks ace though.

[tooSavvy]

It's in a bit of worse condition than it was back then, the guy I bought it off paid 1200 took it home , mot'ed it then seen it needed welding and gave up

Sparkly stick? ..... who said Sparkly stick ...

 

TS

[Supernaut]

BROWN.

[nisfan]

Finally had time look over the Datsun after working, at first it seemed like a bargain but as always a closer look throws up a few problems.

One thing is it idles a lot better now, must have me been revving the nuts off it trying to keep it running in all that rain.
Speaking of rain, the car will now 100% have to be in the unit over winter, theres a few bits that when touched just crumbled and will turn to dust if not protected.
Its been resprayed in shit brown where it was once a rather fetching metallic brown, a properly shit job as well runs etc, will mean my paint matching skills* will not be hard to hide.

 

Anyway on with a few shitey blurry potato photos,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Irish plates, would love to run these,

 

This wasnt a hole until i touched it where it fell apart,

 

The other rear door isnt any better,

 

 

Hard to make out but the under bonnet front edge is a bit chicago town thin and crispy,

 

 

Blurry pic of driver side front wing, replacement in boot,

 

 

One of 4 mot fails on welding, only got 3 pics as one didnt turn out,

 

 

 

 

 

Its not too bad but left will get worse very quick, thinking of roller painting the whole car in underseal.

The grot shouldnt be hard to fix. ( I hope)

 

 

[Dirk Diggler]

It must have been imported to Ireland from the UK and now back again; that ZV plate is one of the period ones you can specify when importing anything pre 1987

[nisfan]

Its went England-Ireland-Northern Ireland-Scotland.
Forgot to say its got Sparkrite (Electronic Ignition?) on it, ive heard of it before but was does it do?

[tooSavvy]

Sparkie.... Parallell with points (no Electronic Dwell shite) It drops current through points and generates coil spark - stops pitting.

 

Should be a chrome switch on casing (colour blue or 'turrbot' red) to kill it.. back to ordinary points action

 

Does sqrOfFall IMHO.... Class period acc, mind!

 

 

TS

[Station]

Where is the original advert, these look amazing.

[vulgalour]

That's a smart wee car and not too crusty for what it is.  Look to the Samaratat for motivation, because at least the 120Y is worth something when sorted out, unlike poor old Samaratat.

[nisfan]

Very true,I seen a link on Facebook to the blue forum here,

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/191254/datsun-sunny-120y-b310-glasgow

[johngarty]

I had a Datsun 180B back in the 80's.

I think I spent more on filler than petrol though.

Mechanically reliable as fuck.

[Rocket88]

Its went England-Ireland-Northern Ireland-Scotland.

Forgot to say its got Sparkrite (Electronic Ignition?) on it, ive heard of it before but was does it do?

After a period of time, nothing.................................the alarms were even worse........