Had a visit at the Bodyshop today to discuss some next steps. Then i realized you guys haven’t seen the car as a whole in a while, so i made some pictures. only to find out back at home that the camera settings were wrong and all the pictures were blurry. Nevertheless. here are some (blurry) pictures of the car in it’s current state. Next up will be the work on the floorpans 🙂

Just another of these little things that sum up in a lot of time and money, but another little step is done: The inside uf the fuel filler cap – the fuel pipe mounting plate (or whatever you want to call it) is sandblasted and welded back in the car. Will visit the bodyshop on friday and have a closer look at those details:

Oh and at the japanese classic car meet in Rhotrist last week, i got this german Datsun Book from my Buddy Stefan. Thanks for bringig it along 🙂 Haven’t looked inside yet, so i’m curious how it is 🙂

Nothing big, just another little update from the Bodyshop: RH rear lower corner has been tinned and smoothened out:

Finally my Panelbeater is back at work and sent me a little update from today. Not a big difference to see compared to the last update, be he’s now detailling and un-denting all the tiny spots that make the difference at the end:

While our garage- / Workshop- and House build is coming along nicely…

There was something i’ve been looking for since a long while to complete my Documentation. And more than once i missed a chance to get one of those. but finally i Managed to get hands on it. Or at least a copy of it. the Nissan Sport service transmission manual. It’s basically a Book with lots of background information on all (or most of them) optional transmissions for japanese nissans back in the day. I haven’t gone through it yet but the information seems to be very useful… I want to thank a certain Man in Japan for taking the effort to copy this for me in excellent quality. Don’t want to name you in public because many others may want to get this too, but you know who you are. Thank you! Will pretty sure post some Z-related data from the book on my Blog over the course of the next weeks. whenever i find time.

Original and copy:

Cover:

Some basic information about the Z-relevant transmissions:

While i’m busy building my garage/house/Workshop i don’t have a lot of time to spend on the cars, but still from time to time i get some things done. like looking for interesting reads. Today this arrived from japan: A set of  Nissan service announcement Book No. 184 “Introduction of Fairlady Z”. With tons of information about the then new Fairlady Z.

Still need to read through it (and my japanese isn’t Very well). but so far i already found some really interesting information in there… For examlpe here the different badging on the different japanese versions of the cars are explained. Sure you find this information in the parts manual as well, but there is a lot more background information and additional information in this books and i absolutely love it 🙂