I went and visited my panel beater chap today. I had left my spare rear panel there and decided to go pick it up and have a yarn. Thankfully he still had it sitting aside, despite one of his workers trying to throw it out at one point. So after a bit of a natter about the state of the 110 and other vehicles I grabbed the panel and made haste, allowing him to return to work as well. A quick stop over at E Hayes & Sons to buy some screws to fit the Japanese domestic lamps to it and I made my way home and dug the lamps out of storage, made use of my new screws and played a game of comparison.
Nissan (above) - Datsun (below)
The Datsun one is obviously not entirely stock having had the badge recess filled and then the whole panel re-painted. However, that’s not important, what is important is that the spare panel needed some tidying up, so before I shot off to work I started on that…
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