Allright, time for an update now. Didn't do much except driving, made about 4000 km without any problems - besides a frozen battery two weeks ago. Car stood outside at -15°
Last week I spend some hours removing bitumen-coating in- and outside. Wish I hadn't..
Floor looked good... from the outside. There must have been an aquarium inside some time ago, the rocker panel rusted open below both doors and the floor panels are thin like paper.
Also discovered lots of rust at the longitudual member just underneath the leafspring socket in the back and tons of fibreglass on the front axle mounts. Feel quite uncomfortable thinking back of the last 4000 km..
After the new years brouhaha the car will be dissected. Rats, didn't want to start a restoration until the BMW is finished.

speaking of...: I found some mates here talking about a mazda mx5 rear axle conversion, is there actually anyone who made it? wasted mx5s are quite cheap over here and if i really have to build the floor and such from scratch, why not going for some improvement?

Thanks for the welcome!
Modding is not that easy over here. There is a 4dr with a CA18DET in germany, but its almost impossible to get it road legal. I'd like to get the most out of the suspension and do some minor motor mods, maybe twincarb and such. A dogleg 5-speed would be nice, too. But thinking of Shipping costs and the luck needed to find one...
@nzdatman: To enjoy tax benefits the car has to be older than 30 years, in good shape and quite stock or modified "contemporarily". There's a league of car-nazis called TÜV monitoring this historic condition.
It would be a nice story, if that nuremberg-dat was mine, but that time my 1200 was still in Switzerland, where it was delivered in 1972. It came to Hamburg 2008 and went down to Stuttgart last winter, where I got it a month ago to Munich.
Here are the german 1200s known to me: http://carsablanca.de/new_search/model_results/Car?q=Datsun+1200 the last 1200 is mine now.

Hello there!
Would like to introduce my sedan and myself. I'm from southern germany, 24 years old and my car background is about swedish bricks and BMWs. I also have two mid-eighties 5 series sitting in the garage.
My 1200 is a 1972 sedan "deluxe" (still don't know what this stands for, except the badges on the c pillar ) and I bought it more or less accidetially, since I needed a reliable, low cost and classy daily ride. The Datsun was cheap and old cars enjoy a tax benefit over here. By trying to gather information I found this page (60s US-Falcon wheels don't really fit, since the center bore is too small )
The 1200 not quite a #OOPS#ter but also not too shiny and also completely stock, a circumstance I'd like to change, which is quite a challenge due to german laws and the lack of well sorted datsun junk yards. Although there's a handful 1200s and 120Y running over here, it's also pretty tricky to get parts, Nevertheless, seek and ye shall find
I plan to build something low, quick and well cornering, maybe to compete with the hot fiats and opel kadett B ran by some friends of mine and for having some fun in the narrow, kurvy side roads. A long way to go for now

Cheers
Viking

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