Datsun Chester (Read 391 times)

[shahtz]

thanks to Al I was forwarded the details to this unfortunate chap who ended up in a nursing home after having his house burgled 4 times and ill health

Jerry was very helpful too

story is long but to cut it short he had exhausted a few notifications to remove his car from a council garage with which he understandably got into arrears with the rent payments

i managed to ring him via the nursing home who were not very helpful so had to play it very carefully

he had the council housing dept ladies number and after ringing her and getting round her confidentiality and right to divulge issues it became apparent that he had till this friday to remove the car or risk have it removed and then stored at a compound or crushed and then the charges be levied back to him etc

i could only go at weekend due to work but the council caretaker didnt work weekends to give access to garage!

so this had to be gotten blind

car was a one owner before this chap and has been stood up since 1997 and he didnt know model!

doors were locked and tyres were flat so was gonna be a mission taking out

this old fella didnt have any keys or v5 either ! (due to burglary)

so my dilemma was to get this saved and away from council

i made an offer which he thankfully accepted

so i had to get my recovery contacts to go with some money and 'sale of car' form and get 'signed authority to gain access and remove car from garage' forms signed from the chap then meet council lady and caretaker at garage before 3.30pm!

to complicate matters the nursing home admin staff would not act as witnesses to this signature so i had to convince the recovery driver to do it!

and to top it all off the nursing home was 25miles away from the garage!


anyway the car has been saved and was dropped off my driveway last night

no keys and no v5

but saveable

got a buyer interested and deposit taken and hopefully it will be picked up saturday!!

another datsun saved!

new owner will be on here soon etc

[Al Ramone]

awe come one! what is it?!

[spottedlaurel]

Well done on your efforts, hopefully it has been worthwhile and I look forward to seeing what it is.

[shahtz]

its a 160j 4 door saloon auto

rare round headlights prefacelift on a W plate!

reg VDM 723W (for u Nigel!)



here it is --------------------->




DATSUN A10 VIOLET 4 DOOR SALOON 1980 AUTO 160J L16 ENGINE

last taxed in 1997!

[cakie]

Wonderful! I'm so glad it was saved that poor gentleman though, what a rough time he's had...

[Al Ramone]

thankyou.

and well done for saving it. it's a shame there was no family members around who could have assisted.i hope the others on here will see why it was not so straightforward and needed dealing with quickly and simply, without causing much more stress to the owner.

at least it's got a chance now.

[spottedlaurel]

Thanks for the reg Shahtz! My V-reg SSS was quite late for a round headlight model, this is mega-late. Number isn't far off this 330:


1980 Datsun 280C (330) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Usually the only people who can get on a car this quickly and get it moved are the banger racers. Fantastic that it's managed to avoid being exported too.

[jerry2706]

Shahtz............. well done.

To be fair I am impressed you made such great progress, I had a nightmare with the nursing home
who wouldn't let me speak to him, apparently he was unwell.

Glad its saved.

its not all about money, and I know how hard and at expense you got this car saved, dont think
anyone from a further a field would have had as much success.

hope to look out for it on the forum.

regards

Jerry

[shahtz]

update on this

to close things off on this violet (as far as i am involved)


car was on my drive for 48 hours and luckily Scott (chap who is restoring an A10) saved this car and is going to restore or use useful bits etc

i took photos of car whilst on my drive and also of it being taken away

a happy ending after all and a decent condition datsun in the hands of someone who has a passion for Violets

enjoy pics ---------->









for u nigel!













a big thanks to all involved in saving this! - especially Al

[Blackbird]

Well done for saving
Wonde rhow many more cars are hiding out there !

[bananahamuck]

No interior shots?

[shahtz]

Mar 6, 2014 2:20:07 GMT 1 bananahamuck said:

No interior shots?

Doors were locked with no keys ?

So didn't bother ?

[dooley]

any progress on this