New Zealand Datsun Club

Awesome photo, you must have been hauling to pick that wheel up off the road good stuff

Yeah I agree, for me it seems a bit strange to slap maybe $100 worth of filler on rust holes when steel sheet is so much cheaper. There must be at least a four litre tin on the back of this thing, I started to grind it off but it was making too much mess so I got out the cutting wheel. Some of the i...

The next mess

I ran the grinder over the sills and a few spots on the back and found bog, lots of bog and rust holes. The sills had been patched over with the rust not removed, there was three patches down the drivers side making up most of the sill and two on the passengers side at the front and back. The rear q...

After a quick clean I put it on the hoist to cut the exhaust pipe so I could get the extractors off to replace the frost plug and noticed some paint bubbling on the sills,bottom of the rear quarters and rear pan.

I pulled my 1200 out of the carport a couple of months ago to get it back on the road. It had been reversed into on the rear drivers side door by a suv and was unable to pass a wof with the window broken and replaced with plastic. The birds had their way with it while it was parked up so it needed a...

Hopefully this works

Hey all I'm Steve, I am a tractor driver from otorohanga in the waikato where i live with my wife and three kids. Currently have a 72 datsun 1200 sedan in the shed and a 87 nissan president. I have had the 1200 for a while, it is fairly stock but a bit rough, it has been my daily run around untill a...