240Z: Rallye clock Oscillator & Seat installation and much new stuff

I have been doing loads of small things over the Christmas holidays, and also got many deliveries of recently acquired stuff. Let’s take a closer look at what happened in the past few days.
First, I got various deliveries of Books from Japan fore some nice holiday-season reads:

But then I thought i should better do some actual work on the car. So I installed the passenger seat:

It’s actually the first time I can sit inside the car since 12 years or so.

The reason I installed this car, was to figure out which route to go with the seats (OEM or aftermarket) and find a suitable solution for installing my Autolook seats into the car.

So I have ordered some parts and hope to do some final trials in a few weeks, when the parts arrive. Speaking of Autolook, I got various small deliveries of random cool stuff which I bought recently…

One of them being an Autolook sticker set, including two of the original Aluminum plate reproduction stickers that go on the back of the seats.

Then I also got this 1982 Nissan Motor Co / Datsun Suisse SA Image brochure, which is quite cool.

It has loads of interesting pictures and information about how they operated back then and I have used many photos from this brochure for my History post about Datsun Switzerland. So far I only had this brochure as a Scan from a friend, but after a few years of searching, I finally found an original Printed one.

Some random Datsun (Switzerland) and Safary Rally Stickers:

And various Datsun Spare-parts stickers. The left one is a Swiss one (German and French) while the other ones are international ones. I like the evolution of the “Spare parts dog”. If you look closely you can see how the names slowly transitioned from Datsun to Nissan from left to right. (Cap and pants of the dog, and the Logo on the Sticker)

Speaking of cool Parts. My man Stefan found a NOS hood release cable mechanism.

And gave it to me. Very nice find:

And then some work again:

decided to install all the heater / Blower components.

The reason was that I wanted to install the original Rally clock oscillator box:

On JDM RHD cars there are two factory installation points in the passenger side of the fire-wall. Thanks to Alan for giving me the reference photos:

I wanted to install / mirror it in the same position on my LHD car, but wanted to ensure that it actually fits there, when everything is installed. Which it does:

So, I got my holes drilled. (Ignore the shady primer-work…)

And got the box fitted. Nuts will go on the other side (not where marked). It will look straight when the insulation is in place.

This is the position in the rear, just behind the battery tray. I will ensure that the body shop will weld proper nuts in place. Also, ignore that third hole (I believe some previous owner drilled that hole to install some aftermarket Audio gear).

And then, I got some parts again: A set of Fuel tank straps by Revive Jalopy, including the J-hooks. I prefer the ones from S30.world, as they come with the complete installation hardware and rubber insulators, but they’re out of stock, currently, but should be in stock back again, soon.  

And just to end the old year, I found another one of these missing tools for my Datsun tool boards.

That’s it for 2025. I have recently bought some rare and cool stuff in Japan, and I’m planning my next steps of the build, and hope to be able to have good progress in the coming weeks.