My two swiss S30Z Fairlady Restoration build thread

Recently, I was able to obtain something rare, which I've been searching for five years, or so now. But let's start in the beginning. In 1937, Nissan registered a daughter-company called "Nissan Auto Sales Co. Ltd." as a sales division spin-off. In 1957, the same company registered the "NISSALCO" trademark, with the aim to develop and produce service tools for Nissan factories and workshops. They produced all kind of mechanical and electronic testers but also accessory parts for Nissan Car owners. Here is a picture from the Nissan Cherry assembly line, with a NISSALCO sign above every test bench:

Today, the company is still existing, but under the "ALTIA" Name. In the early 70ies, they developed a Special service tool box for the Datsun 240Z sports. ST0929-0000. And yesterday, I finally got one, after many years of searching for it.

The toolbox comes with a selection of Special tools for the 240Z. And this box came with a lot of extra tools inside.

You can lift out the upper case, and then you have access to the lower level. Mine included also the Booklet that comes with it.


So first, I had to get all the parts out and go through them. 


Luckily, i collected some of the Datsun / Nissan / Kent-Moore Special tools books over the years. 

And the box (even though without any part number or information) and some of the tools are also listed in the US-service manual:

Sadly, I quickly realized that my purchase came with a lot of additional tools which do not exactly belong to the S30, but random Datsun's, and some original tools from the box are missing. It seems that the previous owner also recreated some missing tools.

Overall, it's still a good starting point. After cleaning the box out, hammering the metal straight and fixing the locks. it started to look good.

I wanted to keep the patina, but still clean up all the parts. so i gave them a quick wash in the parts cleaner:

And then put the original parts back in:

Assembled (some tools are not correct):

And closed:

The set also included this nice Nissan wooden tool box, with the lovely lock:

I still have to figure out yet what this is used for, but i just love the looks of it:


I'm also working on to restore the original manual that came with it:

But it appears that the last few pages are missing and the back cover. But still better than nothing. It also has a very strange format, where each page is only printed on one side and then folded to have a print on both sides, which is a bit weird.

That's it for now. I will try to keep finding the missing tools and pages. If you know something, I'm happy to hear from you. Expect some more tools related stuff in the coming days, but i also hope to work on the car itself again, in the next days. Stay tuned!