figred it had been long enough and i sorted how to post pictures ... so here goes


i bought my datsun 1000 wagon of a mate he had plans to create a granny spec wagon but lost intrest so i snapped it up.

bringing it home was fun my mate lives about 500 meters as the crow flies but you need to go about 1km of main road to get to myn... so i waited till dark and drove my pannelless wagon through a council reserve and up some backroads to my house haha...

i had images of it the night i got it but put my phone through the wash sooo it starts with dad and i replaced the panels so it looked like this



the bonnet was drifter style black when i got it with a stencil 1969 VB10 on it bit dodgy hahah

we decided not to do a full respray for some unnkown reason. i will when it becomes a major project not just a daily

but the paint job came out alight for myn and dads first atempt




there was some paint chipping abouve the windscreen and by the tail gate so painted those patches aswell can sorta see in image



underneatth the guards on the front dad and i painted with like bitchumen stuff ??? to stop rusting

thats it for now will find the rest of my pics tomorow

finnaly got off my arse today and did sme work i have been busy with christmas at work and my end of year exams i finaly need to get my #### togeathr and put the 1K back on the road i pulled the main proble out today the diff centre i had fun cleaning and colleting teeth so now n the hunt for a new centre to transfer the gears into my housing

haha 'bitchumen'

what happened to the teeth in there?

weld it

i would weld it but only as a last resort because i think it would be alot harder to find spare axels for a 1000 in SA than the diff centre

received new diff centre from PIGDOG that was put in today also gave it a service and changed the oil and hoses and bleed the brakes the old brake fluid was like gravy when it came out so now going to was my car and should be all shiney to cruise around in for awile now just need to hit up the wreckers for some LJ torana shocks because my front shocks have just about had it. and find an A15 and 4 spd

Chances are if you goto a wrecker for shocks... They will be just as soft as your current ones! Get em new! There is a reason people are using Torry shocks and not 1000 ones

I think i made Mini ones fit in a few I've done, and 1200 ones for the rear..

just wonderin with the 1200 coup diff centre and it being a different ratio wat is this going to do gear pickup and top speed wise???

haha saw this wagon at datnats in adelaide all those years ago... from memory it was pretty straight back then (at least it was a red wagon with black bonnet with stenciled writting... has to be same car)

good to see it getting fixed up again