I wasn't asserting that the '70 2000 is the rarest Roadster, I was asking if it is. Earliest doesn't mean most rare - fewest made or surviving does. If only a dozen out of 300 single-carb 1500s survi
Reminds me of Jay Leno's comment about the Bugatti Royale - "Of the 6 that were built, only 10 remain..."; joking, of course, about the faking that goes on at the highest levels of the classic automo
I Armor-All'd the bench seat on my old PL-521 pickup - once. The good news was that I was certain to use my seatbelt, because the seat was so slippery that w/o the belt I would have slid over to the
Technically it is not a choke, as it does not physically restrict airflow to produce a richer mixture, but functionally it does the same thing, just bass-ackwards because of the way these weird ol' c
You can see them?! I thought that they were invisible... Brad Lustig <bradlustig@earthlink.net> wrote: Thank you so much on the tip to keep the aliens away. Now, how about the black helicopters that
The color alone is worth a look! Gary McCormick San Jose, CA ' 70 2000 SRL311-13291 horndoctor@aol.com wrote: OOps about the lack of info on finding my car on Craigslist...It's listed on the San Fran
Install a muffler? ;^) Gary McCormick San Jose, CA SRL311-13291 peter harrison <granvillecomputing@hotmail.com> wrote: Thiking of installing an intercom so that I can communicate w/passenger without
Speaking of "dimes" - If anyone out there who has one needs a spare motor for theirs, I have the L16 out of my old (and now long-gone) PL521 pickup. Needs a ring job (which is why I swapped it out fo
"...survived without the aid of seat belts..." but you were never in a vehicle that was in a serious accident, I'll warrant. Same thing with your daughter in the wind-up swing (?!). Pretty scary. Gro
Been down this road before, so I know it's no use debating anti-helmet, anti-seat belt "personal rights" fanatics - but I meant that you were probably never in a serious accident riding w/o seatbelts
Bigmouth front end, a la Audi, is just as ugly on the Skyline as it is on an Audi; little chrome-trimmed openings in the hood are fussy detail - functional?; faux-cycle fender shaping of the front wh
Thank goodness you and yours - including Archie the cat and your Roadster - are all safe and sound, Chris! My wife and I were sweating out the news from the fire zones because we have several family
The oil pressure gauge on these cars has poor low range sensitivity, or to put it another way, it is kind of a mechanical idiot light... ** Larry Braddock <larrybraddock@ca.rr.com> wrote: Hi I got a
In the words of one of the old-time riggers at our launch test site, to a younger coworker: "Don't use a hammer, man - use your head!" Get the tool, do it right. Replacement parts for these babies do
Someone should be keeping a log of how often this question comes up. The pretty red light in the "Brake Safety Lamp Check Knob" (as it is referred to in the Owner's Manual) is the Brake Safety Lamp.
I was thinking the same thing - I Googled "twist fastener" and got oodles of hits. Gary McCormick San Jose, CA ________________________________________ Datsun-roadsters mailing list http://www.team.n
The universal female reaction to my Sora Blue 1970 2000 Roadster has always been - and I quote - "What a cute car!". Oh well... Gary McCormick San Jose, CA James Fogg <James@jdfogg.com> wrote: > I wo
Oh, yeah - the "sir" thing. Definite buzzkill for us 40+(+)-yr old fellas... Gary McCormick San Jose, CA Andy ________________________________________ gkmcc@sbcglobal.net Datsun-roadsters mailing lis
In fairness to Datsun, Miata seats have a couple of decades of ergonomic development on the stock seats in our Datsuns - and will be physically much newer, to boot! Gary McCormick '70 2000 SRL311-132
Now that I'm home and not behind layers and layers of firewalls at work, I can see the clip - Pretty cool! - tho' I noticed that they never really told you what kind of car the pretty blonde presente