PLACES: Parts Hunting & a visit at Cagedude

Recently, I went Datsun NOS parts hunting again. Well Sort of. I found a bit of a cryptic Ad online about a guy who was trying to sell a complete Lot of old Datsun spare parts inventory from the 70ies and 80ies.
After finally getting in touch with the seller, I realized it’s quite a bit of a ride for me to get there, so I asked my Man Cagedude (who is always looking for such kind of lot’s to buy) to pay a visit, as he lives much closer.
Fast-forward a few days and here we are, with a complete bus full of NOS parts in his possession.

Naturally, I had to check out the parts and see if there was anything useful for me (Luckily, Z-parts are pre-reserved for me). But yeah, it will take some time until we (he) have checked out all the part numbers and figured out which cars they belong to.
Nevertheless, if we are lucky, some parts might be very valuable. Like these (possibly) brass synchro gears:

So far the findings were limited, but I didn’t go home without anything.

He had a Z clutch cylinder waiting for me since a while

I also got this Choro-Q toy car as a gift from his last trip to Japan.

These are usually installed on top of the BOSS brand coffee cans, so I had to put it back there to the can i have in my workshop. Perfect 🙂

And then there was this early European Service manual with the early 5-speed A-type FS5C71A transmission:

Another reason I wanted to visit him is to check out his collection of amazing cars:

First, his original Swiss four door Hakosuka C10 Skyline 2000 GT

Then his Portugal spec four-door Yonmary C110 Skyline 2400K-GT

Then, there is another European spec 2000GT four-door Customer Hakosuka in the workshop.

And last but not the least, his S14 Silvia, which is buing built up from ground, after the original car got completely drowned in the garage during a flood.

This is only a small fraction. There were customer cars being converted to partial tube-frame chassis, his RX-7 FC drift machine, and another S14 chassis waiting to be converted to a shop show car in some future.
Thanks for the Hospitality, mate, and thanks for checking out the parts. I hope to see you soon again!