Nick's 1972 4 Door - Ontario Rust....

[nickedwards]

Hi,

I originally had 2 cars, (both build were started to be posted here, and then I stopped working on them). One car was too far gone, so I got rid of it. After life took over, the second car was sitting, barely being worked on. I decided this year to get it a concentrated effort to at least get it on the road.

I did ALL the work myself... figure it's a good learning experience. It's not 100%, and the paint work still needs to be redone, but at least I can drive it, and make the changes I want as I use it. I figure it will keep me motivated.

Here is what it looked like when I bought it.




Pulling the engine:


Yep, looks like an Ontario Datsun


Metal work








Painted engine bay... I didn't like how shiny it was, so I changed it after this.

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Body Work









Sometime after this I decided to shave the side markers.

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reassembly



SS Fuel lines I bent up




I decided to dismantle the wiring harness and split it into a body harness and an engine harness... this way when I engine swap I can get rid of the one harness and make a new engine harness. (and I could get rid of the extra emissions wires, and I was swapping from auto to manual, the pile under the brake is the extra wires)

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On the road:



I lucked out and managed to get steel fenders that had never been used.


I still need to find a set of good black door panels for the front, or I'll have to dye these.


Honda S2000 seats


The headliner I sewed (microfiber) I also redid the vinyl pillars and rear wheel hump (sewing vinyl is fun..... or not).


The carpet I made

[two_68_510s]

Fantastic transformation man, looks very good.

[finn]

looks great! nice job on the carpet.

[McShagger510]

Amazing amount of work you've done and the the car looks GREAT! What does it have for a power plant ?

James

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Thanks for the compliments!

Right now it's just the stock engine with a weber DGEV that I have to re-jet.

I have to lower the front more, so I plan on doing coilovers front and rear, and new wheels. Then will look at what engine swap. I want to do SR20DET, but may do something else.