Hey all.

Have had this ute for nearly two years, bought a lot of parts and received a lot of great info and advice from members of this forum, it's about time I started a build thread.

It's getting a roadworthy tomorrow and rego next week. It was resprayed and somewhat restored by a guy about 5 years ago and then sold to another person who badly neglected it for 3 years. I'm trying to save the old girl.

Came with an a14 and 120y disk brakes, tailgate latches removed, reflectors deleted, rear liscense plate panel smoothed, basically the whole rear end made to look cleaner.

Since owning it I've repaired and retrimmed the seats, fixed a lot of rust. New dash pad and coupe dash, h4 headlights added relays, replaced a lot of stuff like the ignition barrels and door seals and plenty of basic maintenance.

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Oh yeah and my Datsun tattoo

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Well it got a roadworthy thismorning so this time next week it will have rego!

Hey lookin' nice!

Good choice of GT-style steering wheel

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Can't claim the steering wheel choice as it came with it, but i like it all the same. Do you know what model it's out of?

looks like N10 Pulsar steering wheel

Well it got rego yesterday. And because it hasn't been registered since before vicroads changed from a paper registry to an electronic database, there is no record of the car since apparently it's quite common for the documents to be lost, so it's a 1972 car with its date or first registration as of yesterday haha!

It's been an eventful 2 weeks with my little Datsun. I was in an accident and wrote off my work car and have been working (electrician) out of the 'freshly on the road after 10years under a tarp' ute, which has given me plenty of opportunities to work out some of the bugs, which are to be expected.
Had a coolant leak so deleted the heater, had an issue where as soon as the headlights where turned on the temp gauge would soar to hot instantly (without actually heating up as would return to normal immediately after lights turned off) due to poor hot wire from alternator to battery aswell as terrible earths. Also had the left hand side indicators stop working so I have a tiny rock jammed in my indicator stalk to help make contact until a new stalk arrives from Thailand. Have ordered a new voltage reg aswell since voltages are a bit uneven all throughout the rev range. On the plus size I'm test fitting and if all goes well buying some Volk mashies on Saturday so I'm happy.

Glad to hear the ute's working out for you

and your tattoo is awesome ...

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Got a pair of Volk early style mesh 14x7 -0 today, they only just fit the front, would work if I was to get much smaller tyres. They fill out the rear nicely, so now to either find some 6/6.5s for the front or some 8s for the rear and skinny ass tyres for the 7s to run them on the front, whichever pair I find sooner.