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.