Re: 1600 Fender lamp assemblies available new.

[Rick White]

Mark. As this car only cost me $250.00 when I bought it 4? years ago, and it had all the badges, ran perfectly and had 12 months of rego on  it, It had cost me a battery, a alternator, and a water pump to keep it alive, I think even with these parts and the bright shiny new parts have only cost me a total of $600.00, that includes the spare pile of doors, boots, bonnets, passenger fender, 6xbumpers  ect ect I have collected for her. So far I think this is actually going to be a cheap restoration project(comparitivly)   I think the rego over the 4 years has cost me more money than what I have spent on her as a whole. Approximatly $350.00 a year times 4 years equals $1400.00     Also I was unfortunatly in a small accident not to long ago where out of four quotes the cheapest I was quoted was $750.00 I have recieved this money finally.   Out of this quote I was payed $80.00 a side to replace the old lenses that were cracked in the accident (2 new tailights cost me $330.00) so I payed less than double the quote and got whole complete nice new shiny ones.   I already had a spare bumper which I was quoted $200.00 for so that saved me that much (That money goes towards the indicators and some of the tailights)   I am still looking for the rear panel to replace the dented one, but that will come hopefully soon. All up I am ahead with this car any hows.   I sold my old orange 1600 sedan a week after I bought the SSS for $2800.00, this car only cost me approximatly $1500.00 to get to the stage it was before I sold it. I put the car on the side of the road for one day with a 4 sale sign $3000.00 ono and it sold that day, I actaully was only seing what interest I could get really, and was very shocked when I was offered the  $2800.00 for it. That money helped me to repaint my wagon and to put a little extra money in my visa card for that month (visa were happy for once)   This does not include the $1200.00 I made in wages and a little mark up on the 1600 wagon I saved from the crusher last year, the wages were to get the engine all bolted together and for me to build one running carby from the two I had spare.   So all up I am actually ahead with my Datsun 1600 SSS restoration project if you take all these things into account.   My 1600 wagon cost me much more to get to the stage where she is now, I payed $500.00 for her and then had to get her running and up to scratch just to rego her, then I collected better panels for her that cost me a heap, and then I painted her.   I am hoping, well once I get back into the workforce, and the actual restoration project begins I will be able to finish her for less than $5000.00 but hea budgets never go as planned as I am sure everyone knows.   I know of one 1600 in Perth that owes the owner over $10,000 and that was not for any restoration project, that was just the prices he paid to get all the things he broke fixed. As far as I know this car is on blocks still in his front yard, but you get that.   Any how that is the story. Have a great day. Rick White.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 6:11 PM Subject: Re: 1600 Fender lamp assemblies available new. Yes, those things matter to me when it was one many items that ACT rego failed me on. Seems the $20 I paid for a vgc unit from the wreckers wasn't as bad a rip-off I had first thought...How many parts are you replacing with this sort of quality - fully restored I could see a 1600 owing many thousands of $$$. Mark.JT On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 07:07 AM, Rick White wrote: Hi there guys and girls. I do not know wether 1600's over east have the same problems as Perth cars have, but in Perth it is quite hard to get fender indicator lamps (or as Nissan calls them Lamp assembly- side flash)  that the bulb socket hasn't rusted and fallen to pieces.   I have over ten pairs of these lamps and I have only got two pairs that actually work, thoes are bad odds hea?   Anyhow I have just picked up my brand new complete fender lamps, These lamps come complete with the two seals, inner and outer, a new rubber grommet to go into the hole in the engine bay, all wiring, the lense, the plastic wingnut thing and most importantly brand new rear section and bulb.   These cost me $118.80 including GST for the pair, and look pritty smick. They took over 4 weeks to arrive from Japan, and were ordered from my local Nissan dealer.   I am starting to try to get all the nice new parts that will one day make the difference between my SSS looking like a freshly painted 1600 and a fully restored 1600. I now have these lamps, new tail lights, and I even just recieved through E-Bay a new in the box engine bay inspection lamp, as far as I am aware they were only ever fitted to Japanese built 1600's and Z's.    This is the part number for the lamps if any one is interested NI-26160-A8600  One box has the extra number 32R and the other has 32U I have no idea what the extra numbers mean, but the extra number is actually printed on the metal section on each lense aswell. Would one mean right side, and the other means left side??   The inspection lamp number is 26740-10W00   Have a great day. 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