Yeah, I did some looking and saw that there is a lot of action around
these cars. Dropping later ricer turbo engines in them and such.
Who'dathunk ol' gramps was an incipient ricer boy. Well I guess it'll
probably sit there in the barn a while longer anyway, just going up in
value! It is
Here's a radical idea -- why no keep it as a Datsun 510 and do some
restoration stuff?
On 1/28/06, Rich Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah it is a 510. I looked under the hood briefly and thought I saw
half shafts going to the front wheels but maybe I was delusional. I'll
do some
You're always thinking out of the box you paradigm breaker you
Bob Rentfro
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From: LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ricer Rat Rod Musings
Here's a radical
Ah, youth!
Yes, you could probably stuff the front end off an SL under there (you
will have to replace the suspension anyway -- the Benz engine would
squash it!) -- I would look for a complete subframe from a W107, that's
the easy way.
Much better plan than one of those silly ricer jobs
On 1/28/06, Rich Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is a little front-wheel drive thing, nothing special, but kinda funky
in its way. Got me thinking that doing a rat rod job on it might be
kinda fun at some point, put some power in it, rear-wheel drive, weld in
some frame to hold it all,
Yeah it is a 510. I looked under the hood briefly and thought I saw
half shafts going to the front wheels but maybe I was delusional. I'll
do some searching on it, see what might be possible.
--R
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
Sure it's front-wheel-drive? Sounds like a 510, which was RWD (and
You could pop an engine out of a 240d in the thing. There isn't enough
actual metal in that old datsun to hold it back any. the thing would be
a screamer :-)
---Robert
Rich Thomas wrote:
So in my dad's barn is a 70something Datsun wagon that belonged to my
grandfather, and when he got
Ooh! Don't let that one get away, no matter how bad that condition.
Datsun 510s are real collector's items with a huge cult following, at
least on the West Coast. I rarely see them in Portland (a hotbed of
car nuts), but when I do they are always beautifully restored or
obviously built up for
