Datsun 180b 810 ****WAGON**** 2 (Read 208 times)

[Ricky180B]

You all may remember this one from ebay and classic cars sales. In the past it was purchased of a gentlemen by a dealer then put back on sale for a much higher price £4995. So heres the story. I phoned up a company called HAVAIR enquiring about lowering my other wagon. I told him of my car and he said yes we have one here which was a shock. What had happened was a gentlemen in London purchased the car from the dealer at around £4000 and was going to make the car into a show car (Air ride and the back full of amps and subs). The owner had ordered some wheels for it from the U.S but they never arrived. The car then spent around 8 months in their workshop being pushed from corner to corner as it was in there way and Havair could not contact the owner. The car then began to occur storage charges. I was told the storage charges were around £2000. Havair then contacted me informing me they were authorised to sell the car to get back the charges and if i was intrested. What a silly question so i bought it . I flicked back through some photos and thought i have purchased something mint. So without delay i dropped 1 wagon of and picked up another. When i got there it was nothing but shock. The car was in a real bad way. Most of the interior was stripped out. There were major electircal issues with relays removed and missing. There were large amounts of oil spileages on all over the car. Inner wheel arches were missing. Sunroof was completly broken. The car was in a real bad way and after all those years of being cherished it ended up this way i was gutted. I still took her home as under all this i new she was a strong un welded body. So here follows the pics. I did not have a lot of photos at the begining as i totally forget.













sorced parts from the stock from the old wagon ELC







So work began, first all electrics were sorted and with the dash i wanted to go for the orange lights rather than the green













then new bling bling



gear stick was all over the place and gater was split up so new washers and rubber gatters fitted, well gatter was made up



no indicators so found this lying around pluged in and now indicators, its funny what you find under seats



engine bay time















sunroof fixed





Radiator re cored



2 months later







with new rivited plates

[Talking Hoarse]

Well done Ricky. It looks really well indeed.
Ed

[spottedlaurel]

Very lucky for it to have survived after that episode - can't believe someone would buy a car for that price then just leave it.

Looks great now, better without the whitewall trims too!

Interesting that it's got wing mirrors like my C230, whereas most Datsuns at this time were being fitted with the door-mounted ones.

[Al Ramone]

i love the fact your family look totaly feb up in the show photos ;D

"can we go home now?"

"hang on. one more picture....)

;D

car is very nice. obviously

[Ricky180B]

Aug 22, 2012 19:40:58 GMT 1 Al Ramone said:

i love the fact your family look totaly feb up in the show photos ;D

"can we go home now?"

"hang on. one more picture....)

;D

car is very nice. obviously

lol we had a very busy weekend and a very very late sat night bless them they still came

[Ricky180B]

thanks all for the nice comments

[westside]

hi paji that car looks spot on!

[Damien4884]

Ooooo more niceness

PS where do you find them!!!!!