Was searching through some old photos on the computer the other day and stumbled upon one of my old C110, not long after it’s cover-up respray by the looks and wearing it’s standard grille along with a set of what looks like Ward mags. It’s just that little bit hideous, jacked on shallow slots.
Period correct, yet... ...entirely wrong.
Thank custard those days are behind it.
-Michael
When I bought my 110, way back when. I was lead to believe by the seller that there was very little rust in it. He made mention of a few points that were a concern but there was certainly nothing major and it was in fact, “The best 240K I’ve seen, as far as rust goes and I’ve owned a few.”. Sure, it’s a line, I realise that, I’m not entirely stupid. What I did not realise was the extent of the deception. So without further delay I shall bring you fine observers up to speed with the stripping back to metal of my C110. Firstly, here is what I began with, from the rear;
Obvious signs but not all bad, right?
BZZZT! Wrong. Sure, it’s not entirely cheese but it’s hardly fantastic. Observe!
Demoralising though it may be to discover copious amount of rust spots that the previous owner lied about, it is an inevitability in of car restoration. My previous cheap drill had died during my last effort at the task at hand and not wanting to leave it sitting in gloom and doom, (due to being low on cash) today I decided that I’d buy a replacement cheap piece of crap drill to continue my effort of wire brushing all the paint and rust off the surface of my C110. ($19.97, cheers Mitre 10 Mega)
Firstly I’ll show where I left off last time. After the drill gave up and on the first decent sunny day, I rolled the car outside the garage and started to pull the interior out so I could get to some holes from the inside (Doesn’t sound good does it? It’s not… trust me.)
Oxidisation, it takes my metal!
It’s a little hard to see (even when you click the image for a slightly larger version. You’ll have to take my word for it when I say that there’s holes along the hip line, down the bottom of the quarters, at the bottom of the doors, along the guttering and across the top of the windscreen. Thank-fully (as shown previous) the holes in the sills are minimal, far less than I expected.
Working at an Internet Cafe, I probably spend more time online checking out things for my cars than I could possibly spend doing to them, so I thought I would share a couple of images that I happened stumble upon…
We’ll start with a fairly impressive amount of solid colour RS-Watanabe eight-spoke, R Type.
C110 Skyline
S21 Prince Skyline (on the right)
What a Daihatsu MAX engine bay should look like.
Ahh.. one day mine will be comparable (in regards to all three)
-Michael
So, guess what.
After a ferocious bidding war on trademe.co.nz on Saturday night, I bought it. On the Sunday I made a phone-call to arrange a time for collection and then headed on the trip from Invercargill to Gore to buy it. I arrived and backed up my huge trailer to the seller’s huge trailer and we moved the beast across.
From Austin...
...to Nissan
These are the Dai’s of our Lives. Lame Joke, I know. Anyway, once the transfer was completed and the little sucker was strapped to the trailer the journey home began (more…)
