It's not by any means finished, but I will be running my Fairlady, RSP-310, in this weekends South Australian Bay To Birdwood Classic Rally, 29/9
No roof, no windscreen, but lots of enthusiasm

She runs well, those SU's sound just dandy under acceleration
So folks, wish me well, I'm just stoked to have it drivable for the Rally

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Good luck .

Looks great, must be very satisfying to have a long-term restoration driveable at last.

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1970 ex Group A Rally P510
1971 P510
1972 180B SSS
1965 SP310 Fairlady
1966 SP311 Fairlady

Well, there she is in the assembly area, 0745 29/9/13: -


And here we are at the National Motor Museum, Birdwood South Australia: -


Quite a slow trip since there were 1600 entrants
The estimated value of the fleet was $30,000,000

She went well considering we had no windshield and as it turned out, no charge from the alternator
We made it OK though, the ignition system only draws a fraction of an Amp to run the car
To be honest, I was surprised the alternator worked at all when we started the engine, but it appears to have retired now.

I have another that is being reconditioned so I'll just do a swap when it's ready

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I have uploaded some pics. to a new Shutterfly album showing the B2B.
Have a look here: -
https://nissanman.shutterfly.com/2430
As we speak there is a video being uploaded to Bookface

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Hard to believe its the same car.

Well done Graeme!

Yes, a lot of tin worm has been eradicated over the past 12 years.
It has been 35+ years since she was on the road

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looks awesome!

we need some bigger pictures to appreciate better please.

Have a look @ this album: -
https://nissanman.shutterfly.com/117
The whole shooting match from go to now

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Great work Graeme.
Top effort on driving her over there. I bet you can't wait to have it all finished!!

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1972 Datsun 1600, S14 SR20DET Engineered (204rwkW @ 17psi.)
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To be honest, I'm enjoying the LACK of pressure ATM.
Just pottering around fixing a few little things, waiting for some chroming to be done.
The last 3 - 4 weeks have been a really anxious time for me.
In any one day the "will I" or "won't I be ready" thoughts were running riot!
In the end the decision was easy.
When I filled out the Temporary Permit for the Rally, one of the questions was, "Is there a windscreen fitted?"
HELL NO!
I had no roof either
So I went for it!
Fortunately the weather was perfect although I must have eaten a few insects and we got very wind burnt.
I've got all the interior panels to trim apart from the door cards and parcel shelf so I'll get to those this week sometime.
So far she's done 130 miles

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graemes@internode.on.net