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RE: Wheel mystery

To: "Datsun-Roadsters (E-mail)" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Wheel mystery
From: Robbie Harrison <robbie@eaglesol.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 09:25:28 -0400

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Zech [mailto:motormite@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 9:28 PM
To: robbie@eaglesol.com
Subject: Re: Wheel mystery

Where does your father live in NC.
I am in Gastonia.
BZ


>From: Robbie Harrison <robbie@eaglesol.com>
>Reply-To: Robbie Harrison <robbie@eaglesol.com>
>To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Wheel mystery
>Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:56:06 -0400
>
>Hi! I'm new to the list, and have sadly been away from last roadster for
>many years. I recognized the Rader wheels, same as on one of the cars my
>dad
>and I tracked down for parts back when I had my first 1600, in 1985. I
>think
>he still has a set of four.
>
>We used to go and at least look at every roadster we saw in the
>classifieds,
>and bought several. I'm in Connecticut now, and he's in North Carolina, and
>I've been trying to talk him out of the last roadster we were working on, a
>white 1970 2000 that we were restoring when I moved up here in '87. It had
>just come back from bodywork and paint, ready to be reassembled, when I got
>a job up here. Dad wasn't up to finishing it alone, and the poor thing has
>been sitting on blocks in his garage ever since. The big box of parts from
>Rallye is still sitting in the garage with the car, just waiting. I hope to
>bring it north in August to restart the restoration job. Maybe when I get
>that one on the road dad will finally put his back together. He's still got
>a white '69 2000 that he bought new, but it needs a lot of TLC. He's also
>still got the silver 1600 I used to drive and the red 1600 my sister drove,
>but they have succumbed to coastal Carolina's infamous metal termites, so
>most of the sheet metal on those is very rough.
>Is anybody on the list in Connecticut? I don't think I've seen a single
>roadster in the New Haven area the whole 13 years I've lived here!

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