Today began at 3:00 AM....Then it began to roll down this slippery slope....
So I rode the train to Vancouver WA to pick up the 1200 today. Excited and ready to drive the bucket home. The term bucket turned into the term Gutless Thunder after I found out the prev owner had cut the muffler off and straight piped the loud little monster.
IT WAS LOUD. Extremely deafening......
Dave the middle man was more than helpful getting the car somewhat road ready. It wasn't even his car but he threw in some bits for me to use or copy from at a later date (door cards, carpet stuff, ect.) Very helpful.
So I started my trip from The Couve WA (Dave's) with every resident of the state staring at the guy in the OSU hat thundering down the road. It sounded like it was going fast but it sure wasn't
So after hitting I-5 and not being able to accede 55mph the car starts to back fire, buck, and knock like no other..... I made it just south of Wilsonville to a rest stop and started to face the facts that this car might be way too tired to drive. So I started going down my call list for people to trailer me home.... Uh oh my iPhone is going dead... What no cig lighter?!!! I am headed down that brown creek that smells of poop now... I was blessed though.. Because a Tow rig pulls right in next to me so the driver could talk to me about the Datsun 1200 his dad used to have
I informed the guy of the issue and so he wanted to take a look under the hood. He whips out his timing light and asks for my tool kit. Then proceeded to time the car. Along with setting the gap to the points. he told me the Distributor was loose and that was my main issue. He locks it down in decent time and said to head out and he would follow. Should it break down he would hook up an tow me home. It didn't break down......
yet
I made it to just north of the Harrisburg exit along I-5 and I was getting a horrible shake from the rear of the car. Crazy vibration like the rubber was about to come off. I made it to the exit and rounded the corner then this........The car bucked ass end way up into the air and slammed down HARD. I slid the best I could to a pull out on the side road. This was a horrible day. At least it didn't do this at 55 mph.....
An Idea doesn't work unless you do.
, but the 1st guy didnt seem to follow through with the effort to buy. So I was awarded the buy. 
Now I will be setting up a time to make an exchange of wampum. This car is MINE.. Oh how I missed owning a Datsun.
None of the lugs had been tight!!!
