Tedman

Is that dash pad recovered?

<p>Shooting hoops in the driveway!</p>

Exceptional pic!!!

This recall was issued for a potentially leaky rubber fuel tank nipple on the bottom of the tank. Many 510 owners have at some point in their ownership experienced this failure, characterized by large puddles of fuel under the rear seat and in the rear foot wells!

Nice! Did you mask the Comp decals or remove and reapply?

Almost looks like a recreation of the "How to Modify/Hotrod..." cover. I wonder if anyone got the shot with the #46 510 at the apex?

Grooviness!

I'm thinking you might want to center it vertically like this one:

http://tinyurl.com/BluebirdBadge

Ya might want to point out which is which.

Nice plate!

Did we do this road in '08?

Nice. Where do you get these?

Well done, Bill. After all these years I can now sleep at night.

Well, it would appear we have an answer, courtesy of Bill Fant:

It's pretty rare when the opportunity to do something truly significant for the 510 community comes along, but this is one of those moments. After 37 years of guessing and speculation, behold the truth, courtesy of former Datsun Comp staffer Ron Johnson (excellent guessing, BTW -- I mean by the way):

Lucky for you that I just happen to specialize in the "totally dated & insignificant". LOL The 510 BTW was basically a 'kit car' that was created from stuff that was listed in the early Comp Dept catalog. It got us two (2) full articles in C&D. As you can see from the listing, everything is bolt-on. Even the 5-spd was a Roadster unit w/early Z bellhousing. The only non-Comp Dept items on the 510 were the wheels (EMPI) & the rock screens on the front headlamps. It may have also had a header & exhaust system ... if so, they were aftermarket too. Anyway, the BTW stood for ... a little drum roll here, please ... Balls To the Wall. No big thing, but it would have really had the little ol' ladies in tennis shoes screaming for a head to roll back then. "The origin of the phrase is not related to testicles as you might think. There's no definitive source for this phrase, altho the most likely appears to be that it has a WW II military origin & that the balls are the knobs on aircraft joy sticks. Pushing them as far as they can go, i.e. against the wall of the plane, caused it to go flat out." )

I was stunned when my Dad brought it home, but we made it presentable and sold it at Pomona.

What the heck is that thing?

Shasta asphalt eventually turns to goo...

Nice! Kinda looks like PLN's car:

http://tinyurl.com/35o2xq

Looks like it even has the BRE style reverse facing rear sway bar.

-Ted

What the heck was Datsun thinking with that...that pattern? Looks like the vinyl paint worked out nicely, though.

1st gen 200SX, judging from a pic of the 200SX dash on page 21 of Petersen's Complete Book of Datsun #2.

I know of those two, plus one on the west coast...

Nice. Are the shocks independently adjustable for rebound and compression, or does the adjustment change both? Who makes the shocks?

-Ted

Thanks. At the time it had a 2 liter (L20B) with 0.040" overbore, flat top pistons, a hotter cam, 240Z SU carbs and a header.

I assume you had to grind the calipers to make them fit?

http://tinyurl.com/7coez

Nice wheels, BTW. I had a set once and always wished I'd kept them:

http://tinyurl.com/7my53

-Ted