When I bought SRL311-00489 in November of 1999 it had not run in five years.
Even after getting the car back on the road, there was a dead earwig at the
bottom of my not working Oil Pressure/Temp Gauge. (The gauges were bypassed
to some crummy aftermarket gauges)
I drove the car like that for a year before taking it off the road for
restoration. That bug may not have been 635.00 or even a bottle of Scotch,
but he traveled 13,000 miles with me in the year before I took him off the
road.
He was a good driving companion and never complained once about my
driving... ;-)
Andrew Murphy
1967.5 2000 Solex
SRL311-00489
>From: "Jim InVirginia" <nqrithfordatsun@msn.com>
>Reply-To: "Jim InVirginia" <nqrithfordatsun@msn.com>
>To: datsunsport@ca.inter.net
>CC: datsun-roadsters@Autox.Team.Net
>Subject: More: strange findings in roadsters.
>Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:48:51 -0400
>
>The scotch was probably placed there as a secret pick-me-up by some long
>dead alcoholic
>and roadster addict...but in anyway, you could have a very tasty and well
>aged drink while you thought about how nice it would have been to find
>635$ instead! I found nothing even close.....best was a genuine Datsun
>Refrigerator Magnet, stuck on the back side of the heater box under the
>dash.
>
>Best Regards,
>Jim
>Chesapeake, Virginia
>
>>From: datsunsport <datsunsport@ca.inter.net>
>>Reply-To: datsunsport <datsunsport@ca.inter.net>
>>To: datsun <datsun-roadsters@Autox.Team.Net>
>>Subject: strange findings in roadsters.
>>Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:28:48 -0700
>>
>>A local customer 10 years ago bought a very tired 69 2000 from a shady
>>guy. The car was rusted, bent and modified. It came with MGB seats. When
>>Randy went to pick up the car, the previous owner made him take all the
>>spares out of the garage as he was finished with datsun roadsters. In
>>the pile of debris were the original; seats from the car. tattered and
>>torn, Randy really did not want them. All or nothing was the deal. Randy
>>loaded up all the parts and car and piled them into his garage. He then
>>proceeded to start the restoration of a very rusty( frame replaced),
>>banged up roadster. He did a beautiful job. Time came to redo the MGB
>>seats or the roadster seats. I convinced him that the roadster seats
>>were the way to go. He called me up one day to thank me for keeping the
>>original seats: tucked away in the folds of the original seats was a wad
>>of bills: $635!!!!!. he recovered the seats and had a little left over
>>to spend on his roach turned roadster.
>>
>>Ross
>>sports imports
>>
>>ps my most unusual find was a 25 year old mickey of scotch wrapped in a
>>seat cover in the left rear quarter of a 65 1500 behind the rear door
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