Mitch,
Small world as I know who he is w/o you telling me! It's Dave Pesky, Datsun
restorer extradonaire! He does ALL the work himself except machining and at
his job he probably could do that also.
I've known him for many years and he is a really great guy. We all stay
together when we go to the Glen.
BTW, he's got more cars than I care to think about and the space to store
all of them indoors. I am jealous.
66 Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Mitch Planck <mitch@ias.net>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 9:13 AM
Subject: good ol' #2 and some more roadsters
> Last week I went to look at a couple Roadsters in SE Michigan. One was a
'70
> 1600, the other a '68 2000. I was suprised at how well the bodies were on
> these cars for this part of the country.
>
> The 2000's body, while spray painted randomly, had no rust in the usual
> spots, just very small amounts of surface rust from scratches. The
interior
> had been removed, but was in pretty good shape. No engine or tranny
though.
>
> The 1600 was also had a nice body, but not quite as good as the 2000's.
One
> of the front fenders had a small hole just in front of the door and there
> was some rust in the rear wheel arches. The interior was not quite as good
> as on the 2000 either. It did have a full drive train, but I made no
attempt
> to examine that since I wasn't interested in the engine, just body stuff.
>
> I only wanted one of these babies, and he wanted to sell both and had
> someone else coming later in the evening that was interested in both. He
> wound up selling both to the other guy. I thought I had lost out on the
> parts, but I got a call this morning from the other guy who bought the
parts
> (I had the first owner give him my name and number). He wanted the body
> parts from the 2000 for his other cars. He has a '63 1500 with a jump
seat,
> a couple of 1600s and a few 2000s. He got the 1600 for a friend who may
not
> want it, if so he might sell it to me, which would be cool - the body is
so
> much better than mine.
>
> I asked him if he was on the email list and he's not - he's remodeling his
> house and has 'lost' his computer under the house work, heh.
>
> Anyways, I got a chance to look at my missing #2 last night and figured
out
> what was going on. I removed the distributor cap and manually turned the
> engine and watched the points. Turns out that the points weren't opening
on
> #2. Thinking the distributor shaft got bent somehow I removed it to take a
> closer look and when turning it out of the car, all the points opened.
Looks
> like it got in there cockeyed somehow. I put it back in, put everything
back
> together and tried to start it. No luck. I used the timing light and #2 is
> firing now while I crank it, but #1 is not firing every time, just
> occasionally.
>
> I didn't have any more time to figure out why this is happening, probably
> something similar to what was happening to #2. There is a fair one block
> from my house and they were having the demolition derby and I went to go
> watch that with the family. Better than listening to it - it's just
annoying
> then. They don't get really loud until the tractor pulls on Saturday
though.
>
> Everyone - thanks for the tips, they've made this solution much easier for
> me to find.
>
> Thanks,
> Mitch Planck
> '69 1600
>
> Systems Engineer
> mitch@ias.net
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