Ok time has come, we really need to get the ball rolling.
As you would have seen in the spotted thread, I am a member of another club in Perth. (PPCC)
We had a Hot 4's photoshoot, which in turn netted us great extra publicity for that club.
Good news is, Rick McDowell came in and chatted on their forum.
I took a chance, and emailed him privately, with the idea on getting him to come and do a OZDAT WA photo shoot.
Below in
BOLD is what he had to say on the subject.
That night he answered back.
I'd love to do OZdat .. would be delighted ....
I'll send you another mail tommorrow as I'm buggered right now, but yeah, definitely very, very keen to get Ozdat in for a club feature
Soon
Rick
Then Yesterday, as it is now 2.34 Am Thursday and I am still writing this he wrote.
Okey Dokey Rick,
let's talk about getting an OZDAT shoot done for Hot 4s.
As you know club features are important and we've still got Drivn By Heels, VTECHnique to come and last weekend I even done the R31 Skyline club for Hot 4s, so we do like to keep it moving and several others are in the pipeline too.
The 2 most critical things right now are;
1) set a date
2) find a location
I've got a few weekends freeing up in May and that would no doubt give plenty of time to organise folks, get cars finalised, tidied, sorted etc.
We were really lucky with the PPCC location getting that industrial yard ... last weekend with the R31 club we ran into location problems and only by 8.00pm the previous night did we come up with something.
Which was basically a recreation centre carpark which wasn't great, but served the purpose.
I prefer to get onto private property as it's less stress and we don't have the hassle of cops turning up etc, etc, etc.
I can get into the Motorplex any time really, but the Plex' has been used too much over the past year and I' really prefer to find an industrial yard, a foundry, storage yard, .... you know the deal Rick.
I would actually say that this should be your first task .... ask around the group , see who has a brother / father / uncle / relative / mate / deadly enemy that works in a massive industrial yard or something.
If we sort the location, I'll look at me dates for May and then we can start organising the mini feature cars too.
OK ?
Rick McD
So yer, I counted 24 people on the
can we get (another) show of hands for WA people? post in the Wa section.
This is 3 more cars that what was in the PPCC photo shoot.
What I need us to do, as soon as possible, is get together, show support to the club, by turning up for a large meeting (as many people as possible) to get some ideas flowing of where to do this.
Meeting will be at 7pm Saturday the 9th of April at my place in Morley.
Common guys lets make this work, please get every DATSUN OWNER you know to log, in, post their interest and please turn up on the day.
I was kinda thinking that extra large gravel track Deza and I went for a spin on, after one of the cruises, whiteman park has nice green lawns we could probably get permission to do it there.
Or does Aarron Sice still have connections at Don Russel??
They would have to know somewhere with large industrial yard we could use???
Once again, please, lets make this work.
I would also like members to bring some cash on the day, or at least be prepared to sign a sheet showing thier 100% committment in joining our club, which I can only guess, can only grow bigger and better as soon as this photoshoot is published.
Also, paid up members, will get the chance, to send me (who will forward them in to Rick McDowell) details of their cars, to be considered by him for a mini feature)
Thanks heaps for your time in advance.
P.S. I have SMS's every Datsun owner in my mobile phone to let you know to have a look in the forum.
Can everyone else do the same??
People who have shown interest so far
1 ) SSS_510 : Rick White, Datsun 1600 wagon, Datsun 1600 SSS 4 door sedan, Datsun Bluebird SSS Z18et
2 ) dnsv1600 : Deza, 75 180B Wagon FJ20 can you trailor the 70 1600 Sedan L18 down aswell??
3 ) olddat : Paul Mantellato, gunmetal grey autochanna 1600, White rally (log booked) 1600, blue and white daily (sometimes) driver, Nissan Patrol long wheel base (reason the daily driver 1600 is sometimes forgotten) and Burgandy rolled black track 1600
4 ) a friend of Pauls (came with him) for gt his name already.
5 ) lampy : Hayden 72 white 1600 with z18et, 260z close ratio gear box and rb20 turbo
6 ) sinads1 : Simon creme 1600 with SR20et
7 ) Team_dat : Aaron, Datsun 120y coupe with L-18
8 ) pro240c : Aaron, 240c with 1UZFE, Toyota V8
9 ) guppy : Craig, 1600 with Z18et and/or 120Y
10 ) dattoman1000 : Niel, 1000 2 door race car
11 ) kornracing01 : Vaughan, 72 Datsun 1600 with fj20et (with or without white bonnet) Maybee we can remove it for the shoot??
12 ) nd4spd : Anthony, Datsun 1600 with (SR20 et or FJ20et) what is in it now mate??
13 ) Mr Camouflage : Craig, Datsun Silvia,and/or r31 coupe, and his Z maybee??
14 ) Dazzas_Ute : Darren 1200 ute, running a L20b... as a maybee
Welcome Darren, I will P.M you my address just incase you can make it
15 ) timmy : purple sr turbo powered 1600
16 ) idjet :Dave '82 720 ute, it has an L20b
17 ) bodybodyrock : Jarrad 1600 with SR20et or FJ 20et
18 )MR1600 :creme 1600 (datsun pulsar is still a datsun mate) please feel welcome to come along, this club is for Datsun enthusiasts, and anyone with the love of Datsuns/early nissans is allowed.
19 ) Cal - DATSUN POWER : callum, 1000 sedan
20 ) testpilot : Dan creme 1600
21 ) Burnt16: did you get another 1600 yet
22 ) phatsista : Belinda
1970 1600 rally car L18
1971 1600 tar baby half cage L16
197? can't get in the shed to look - spare
1982 280C with R30 injection in an Urvan (flying brick)
1979 260C spare for above
plus a Moke as a guest Datsun
A15 efi turbo it and it will be a Datsun
23 ) RATTO : loves Datsuns, drives a commodore
24 )dexter :Purple 1600, sr20, old skool rims
25 ) Tazholio :Terry 1973 180bSSS coupe?
26 ) MelloDatto : name
1600 with SR20 et
27 ) MangaNOID : Name
s14 sr20de vvt
28 ) Matt Doesn't have internet 180B 4 door Matt Black paint with blue checkers on the rear
29 ) prospec : name/car
Welcome
People who normally show interest, turn up and seem to be Missing In Action
30 ) max510 : Rob P (I know your 1600 has/or is just about to come out of the paint shop)
31 ) Supercharged1600 Rob 1969 1000 4dr A12 3sp auto,1970 1600 4rd L18 5sp man, 1971 1600 4dr L18 4sp man, 1971 1600 GL 4dr SR20 man, 1981 280C Cedric L28 3sp auto
32 ) Seanan 1600 out there somewhere
33 ) FJ510Wagon, Todd 1600 wagon with FJ20ET
34 ) JK Jon 1600 SR20DET
35 ) timmy purple sr turbo powered 1600
36 ) 910fury, L20 Bluebird
37 ) BendeR, Can't wait to see your 1600 SSS mate
38 ) sssr20 - Grant 180B SSS coupe long term restoration project
39 ) dizmo : Ryan (what car do you have mate) P.S. You have a P.M waiting for you
Address details for where the meeting will be Saturday evening
40 ) Bloke with red 180 b wagon, and 200B SSS coupe
41 ) people with the fairlady with CA 18
42 ) People with the Red 1000 coupe
43 ) people with the 1000 ute that niel did the front disk up grade for
44 ) bloke with the morris with the A-15 efi turbo upgrade
I know there are more of you, I will add you as you show interest