Thanks to the efforts of one of our overseas members, I received a large parcel on a freight truck today.
Bloody Excellent says I.

Upon opening it & found that the description was right on the money. Here's what the package contained.

This is a complete Sunny Excellent GL dash assembly.














This one is the facelift model from about mid '72 onward. It is the 'double hump' version as the facelift model Sunny 1200 GL & GX used a single hump dash. This should solve the metric speedo problem & of course my coupe will now be 20kph faster as the speedo goes to 180kph [112mph] instead of the 1200's 160kph [100mph]





















I was also offered a second, very scruffy but complete dash from a Sunny Excellent GX. This is regarded as a parts dash, but in reality, with a bit of work, it will clean up very nicely. The tach will be going into my GL dash, thereby making it a GX one.
This GX dash looks to have been taken from a VERY rusty car as one of the side bolts didn't want to undo, so the dash was ripped from the pillar, bringing part of the pillar with it.
























I will make one really good dash from the two & the remainder will become available, however I think that it has already been spoken for. The GX one has the correct twin choke cable choke control.
This will serve very nicely when I slip in the A15 with GX induction.
Ahhh, nothing like a little class to make my slow journey a little more comfortable.

A great debt of gratitude is owed to Matt for all his help.

dam hot mate. good score, shud look amazing when its in there.

show us the progress as you combine to make 1 nice dash!!

Good stuff, will be nice addition for any 1200.

Theres one of these on ebay at the moment, now, does the racecar need one

That dash will look great in my 2006 Ute, the new ones look a bit dull and grey.
Thats will be because it is grey.
Keep me in mind if another becomes availible.

mmm these look so much better than the coupe ones

Ah so you did end up getting it! Looks great and the spare is a bonus!

What does the good one need to make it really good?

EDIT - HERE's the one on ebay

Starting bid $750......yikes.

It sure is nice..might get a little crazy.

I saw a very nice, mint condition, late 90s 325 bmw for $9999 today.

Having a Datto for race/rally, just isn't very cost effective anymore.

Quote:There is a crack in the glove box lid, so I will probably swap the lids, & being a GL dash, it has a clock, but the parts dash is a GX, so the tach will be swapped. Other than that, it's all good.
They both came complete with the wiring harness, but the parts one has been in a corrosive environment which has caused some problems, but could be made whole again after being combined with a local dash which would provide serviceable switches, cables, radio etc.

The one on ebay looks VERY familiar. When I was checking these dash's out, I was sent a link to a finished auction that had been won by a bidder under the name Kipwife. It was a really nice one & had been bought at a reasonable price, so I kept a picture of it from the auction.

Kipwife seems to want every dash that comes up, along with many other parts, that show up on Yahoo Japan. He/she bids very aggressively & drives prices up to silly levels shutting out everyone else.

The dash on ebay looks EXACTLY like the first one that I saw that Kipwife had bought, & I am in a position to compare photos. There are a number of other things on ebay right now that look just exactly like items that enthusiasts were beaten out of on Yahoo Japan too.

It seemed that a bidding war had developed between me or another Datsun enthusiast that I was in league with, ... & Kipwife. I was driving up his winning bid prices until one day he did not bid on a dash & I won it at a much more reasonable price than previous ones had been going for.
The best way to get rid of an opponent like that when you want everything in the auction is to let him win one & hope he goes away.
I did go away & he/she returned to buy up stuff again.

Again, I need to acknowledge the help, guidance & assistance provided by 'M'
None of this would have happened without him.