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A few days ago i got this lovely package just in time for my birthday. Since long i had the idea that it would be nice to hang my collection of various Z-steering wheels on the wall, as they make a nice decoration. But i wasn't able to find any useful solution to hang them nicely with the pins. So i aske din the Datsun Europe FB group if anybody had a solution. Nobody had, but Robert, One nice guy from Austria offered me to design them and print a prototype, as he would also use a set for himself. We (he) played around with different designs and mounting types. But we (he) ended up with this solution. It's simple, comes including installaiton hardware, fits the original two pins and three screws on the backside and can easy be removed once hung on the wall. It's also extra slim, so it can be shipped in a padded envelope and not as a package. So today i finally hung my wheels on the wall (note, top right wheel requires a different mount, which i found on etsy) Fitmend, design and everything is excellent. at the end, he even printed them himself 🙂 And made some nice product photos 🙂 If you're interested. contact robert via this facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/el.bichelino Oh and robert also sent me this Sticker from a central-swiss Datsun Z club from the old days, which was in his car when he bought it 🙂 Thanks again for the excellent work and happy the wheels finally found a nice place.

Aha. it seems so. thanks for the input. does it expand underneth the floorpan or is it "just" at the rear? Do you have it on both sides of the car?

So, i thought i'd pay the bodyshop another visit. i was a bit suprized to see the car looked tmore or less the same than last time on the first glance. But upon closer inspection i realized they have worked on a lot of details. They finished the welding of the front area. added some threads where they were missing on this version of the parts i had (some have minor differences to my original ones, since they might come from a different year version, despite being factory parts). Also the firewall area behind the bedals was completed. The floor pan and seat mounts were removed and the inner side was replaced with the KFV part. Including the additional einforcement plate: Luckily i brought my USB-stick this time so i could get the pictures which the panelbeater made while in progress. he also repaired the lower section of the inner-inner rear wheel arch As well as the tool storage area behind the driver seat: You can also see the lower "Dogleg" area behind the driver, which got replaced. Some small items had to be made by hand, like this rear inner wheel arch lower corner (behind the strut area). Meanwhile the whole section is closed again. On both sides the Mud / Dirt panels got test fitted to see if all bolt holes and stuff lines up. I agreed for a next visit in 1,5 weeks, and i'm hoping for the floor panel area to be done and maybe the outer side skirt (incl seat belt mounting reinforcement, etc..). So far i'm really satisfied with the work they do and also their attention to details which matter at the end. Oh and i need your input. Behind / Outside the LH floorpan, we found some kind of reinforcment plate, which extends to the seat mounts. It looks Very much like factory spot welds from the inside, but i couldn't find anything about this piece in my parts manuals, nor does it make any sense to mee. the area was heavily "repaired" in the past. but this particular piece looks to good to be a repair. No we wonder if we should fabricate something like that and weld it in on the replacement floorpans, or just leave the floor pan as it is? I have a shipment with very rare and cool parts ready to be s hipped out in japan, but since seafreight is quite expensive atm. I guess i'll wait a bit and collect additional stuff before i send it out.

Yeah he doesn't have them listed on the website. I found the oil pump gear on ebay from him directly and the chrome trim stuff he just recently announced via email. best to give him a mail or DM via Facebook to get a quote

Sooo, i'm thrilled to bring you finally a *drumroll* update from the Bodyshop! After 1,5 weeks i thought it's about time to give them a visit and see if they made any progress. I didn't get a lot of updates so i was a bit worried if anything had been done. But turns out they rather focus on working than sending me messages. When i arrived the guys were working in full swing: After thinking about only replacing the rotten parts, they quickly realized it makes more sense to replace the whole panels, since i had those completely NOS items on hand. Like the air channel Or the frame rails: They also discovered this nasty bend, which i never realized. It must have got a hard hit at one point, which made the whole area move a bit. They also started to replace the firewall lower are with the KFV Panels and so far the feedback was that those panely fit like the OEM ones! They forgot to send me the pictures, but they made some and had them on the computer to show me. This is how the car looks with the complete front inner fender and the upper air channels removed: And including the frame-rail also gone: New frame rail in and primered: Inner fender in, primered, and the welding area sanded down again (they use a special welding primer there): They also removed the replacement roof skin from the frame. It was in very good condition when i bought it. Unfortunately i gave it to a guy who wanted to use it as a template to make a carbon roof. While removing the mold from the roof, he applied pressurized air and then the roof bent inwards completely. He brought it to a panelbeater to have it fixed, but he left a lot of dents on the roof. The new guys will fix it, but it's again a lot of additional and unplanned work... After all i'm quite happy. One corner was done quickly. I also brought them many panels from the right side, so they will be able to rework what the previous bodyshop did. It's a bit of a bummer and i'm not happy with it, but now is the time to get it done right, so yeah. Also yesterday i got this Exedy / Daikin OE replacement clutch kit, which i ordered a few days ago: You may ask why, when i have most of the original clutch Parts in NOS condition in stock? First of all they seem lighter (i still have to compare them), secondly they come with all the installtion tools required (centering tool, bearing, grease, etc) and last, i just thought the materials used might be a tad more modern and advanced, and maybe less harmfull then the ones used in the original 70ies production clutch. Since you won't notice anything from the outside, i thougth this is a good upgrade and easy to revert to original setup if required at a later point. That's it for today. I hope for more updates from the bodyshop soon 🙂

Interesting. thanks for your Info. 🤗

So it seems almost that this was an aftermarket solution, but fairly common in some areas, if ii recon right?

Hmm. interesting... That's a goiid point. But i'm not sure though if you can't reach it from the space between the grille / bumper and the front lower valances? It seems however a bit unsafe, if word goes around that every 240Z had a free key in the front ready for take-away, i'm not sure how not every Z would have been stolen in the US over the years 😅

Recently i stumblet upon this blog Post from my mate @florian at Datsun-Autowerk, where he claims that some Z's had a secret spare key box in the front radiator frame crossmember thing. After asking a bit more, he said that he had seen it on two cars so far. I had a closer look at my currently sandblasted frame, but no indications that it ever had it nor that it was modified at some point.. So we checked our R-drive manuals. it seems there were three types of front crossmembers, but none of them ever had a box, according to the drawings: Same with the L-Drive: We couldn't find anything in the "keys" section of the Parts manual either, and the key-box is not listed anywere at all. I can think this is something that was installed in specific markets only due to some safety legal requirements or whatnot, but at the end it seems a bit of a mystery. It looks too professional and "factory" to be an aftermarket installation, on the other hand, no information is available in the official documentation. Now the question is: Does anybody know more? Have you seen this on other cars as well? do you probably even have such a feature. Maybe never checked it out? Whatever you know, we're happy to hear about it 🙂

Recently i stumblet upon this blog Post from my mate @florian at Datsun-Autowerk, where he claims that some Z's had a secret spare key box in the front radiator frame crossmember thing. After asking a bit more, he said that he had seen it on two cars so far. I had a closer look at my currently sandblasted frame, but no indications that it ever had it nor that it was modified at some point.. So we checked our R-drive manuals. it seems there were three types of front crossmembers, but none of them ever had a box, according to the drawings: Same with the L-Drive: We couldn't find anything in the "keys" section of the Parts manual either, and the key-box is not listed anywere at all. I can think this is something that was installed in specific markets only due to some safety legal requirements or whatnot, but at the end it seems a bit of a mystery. It looks too professional and "factory" to be an aftermarket installation, on the other hand, no information is available in the official documentation. Now the question is: Does anybody know more? Have you seen this on other cars as well? do you probably even have such a feature. Maybe never checked it out? Whatever you know, we're happy to hear about it 🙂

So today another bunch of parts arrived: First a bunch of goodies from Sean over at datsun-zstory.com in France. A Bronze upgrade worm gear for the oil pump: Something similar has been on sale by Nissan (in this catalogue they state it's brass, but in some others, they mention it's bronze too). And a set of replica stainless steel window corner trim pieces, which he just recently released. It's also planned to release the longer parts soon too. so maybe i'll get a set of those too. from my first glance they look excellent! And then another bunch of panels from KFVintageJDM parts in Bogota. After we decided to redo the work on the right side, that my previous panel beater did so-so. I thought let's just buy whatever is available so i have it on hand if needed. i can easy sell thos items anytime if i don't need them and i didn't want to make any more unplanned orders. so basically i have almost every part of the usual problematic areas in stock and ready to be replaced. It's easy for a skilled panelbeater to make such panels by hand, but if you look at all these die-stampted details from the KFVintage parts, made as close as possible to the original panels, i have to say it will become hard to get all the details right. so here we are. I Will visit the bodyshop next week to have a look at the progress, So far i haven't got any feedback, which worries me a bit, but is nice if they prefer to work on the car instead of texting and sending photos. I'll see..

Thanks for the input. i think it's easy to find out, but for now i'm just collecting all that stuff that doesn't look familiar. One rainy day i will go through all the part numbers and put them up for sale if it doesn't fit my project.

A few weeks ago i saw a set of 240Z factory seats for sale locally. I put a bid on them because i thought they're in better condition then the ones i had, or i could use them as parts donors or sell them again if not needed. I didn't expect to win the auction but well i did.. so today i went to pick them up from a nice bloke: The seats are used, but generally in nice condition. Perfect for a refurbish: I asked the seller if he maybe had some more parts, and he said he sold his Z approx 20 years ago and is cleaning out his garage. He modified his blue 240Z back then with some recaro seats, that's why the seats where for sale, but he also put a whale-tail spoiler and other fancy stuff of the time on the car. So he also had an original trunk spoiler for sale. This comes in handy, as most of them have their bolts rusted off. this one is still quite good, so i might even use this one instead the one i once repaired for myself: Aside from the Dashboard metal cowl / trim piece thing (see first photo), he also had these units: A set of NOS door chrome mouldings. Complete with the factory "Hashimoto Forming Kogyo Co. Ltd" protectve sticker on it, etc. Definitely something you come across every day, so overall i'm happy with my purchase. I have a good set of spare seats, a nice spoiler, NOS window mouldings and a dashboard trim piece.

This comes in handy. great! Thanks a lot

Todsay i have some very good news, some not so good ones and then some good ones again. The very good news: The bodyshop started working on the car in full force. And they seem way more professional than the previos one. Not that he was really bad or so, but you see those guys have a different approach of working. Before they even plugged in the welder, they decided to measure through the entire chassis and compare them to the original drawings and check if everything is straight. And now the bad news. It seems it's not. According to them, it once got a hit front left, and the difference from height from the left to the right side is approx 1,5cm. The good thing is, i have the complete NOS factory LH Frame rails. complete front inner fender and Air channels. so basically they can rebuild a whole corner of the car with NOS parts. But before they start, they will put the car on an alignment bench and get it straight. Otherwise it makes no sense to replace parts on a bent car. you better get it right before you even start. While one guy measures all the corners and is setting up a plan in which order the car needs to be rebuilt so it remains solid all the time, the other guy is already busy preparing all the old panels. Some have small storage and transport dents or need corrrection here and there, so the other prepares all the body panels. excellent. They promised to send some pictures soon. I yet have to see the work, but i have a much better feeling. They haven't asked for a cent yet, while the other one always wanted to be paid in advance (which i can also understand somehow), they have set up multiple calls to clarify details, they ask the right questions and are more interested in showing me solutions than showing me problems they found. So far, that's way more my kind uf guys. let's see. Now the good news again: I was able to obtain another big Parts lot from an old parts hoarder. This time it's not so many NOS parts, but more of well preserved or resfurbished stuff. Mainly about 20 kilograms of replated bolts and fasteners in really good quality (he sorted them for his own usage and only kept the good ones from dozens of z's which he dismantled over his lifetime) and now i got all the "leftover" replated bolts. But you also will find a bunch of really good rubber pieces. and some NOS parts now and then scattered in. These plastic parts and wiring from the ventilation / heating system will definitely be handy. they're in excellent condition. If you look closely you also find some parts which are from later generation Z or ZX cars, but the most is from the 240Z as far as i can see. Plenty of replated stuff. I have to double check if those are really from the 240Z, but nevertheless, they're a set of NOS factory decoration stripe decals. I won't use them, so will definitely put them up for sale, once i have confirmed what car they're for. Again, multiple kilocrams of Nissan Z and ZX bolts and washers. i'm sure this will come in handy when something is missing 🙂 I have a box where i collect my stuff for replating. but now many of that is already available freshly plated, like the hood holder, shown below. The dull gold one is one that a previous owner painted and would have needed a blasing / Sanding and replating, while the one below is now already freshly refurbished. Overall i will need some time to figure out which parts are usable for my car and which not, but the parts that fit my car are definitely worth the price Oh and i just spent some money in Japan for some really, really cool parts, and as soon as the sea-freight shipment arrives here in probably 2-3 months, i will be able to show you more. Also have a few smaller orders open, and some work happening soon with my EK9. so expect plenty of updates in the near future on this very page.

Hey Kat's. very interesting finding. I have to find out more. But it seems my documentation is a bit limited. my latest R-Drive only goes up to 1976 and all other documents which i have, you have already shown pictures up there. I wonder how you assigned the part numbers written in red here to the different Z-versions? Or is it just an Idea? It could be very possible, though Soo, on friday i got a call from my bodyshop that they want to start work ASAP, because they have already an epxensive Pre-WW Bentley scheduled for fall and want to complete mine until then. So how am i to turn them down? I prepared all my bodypanels in stock, and also made an inventory to make sure nothing gets lost. it seems that not much of the original metal will be left at the end. but honestly, i give them many items just as reference or for "in case" I packed everything into my In-law's transport bus And spent quite some time at the bodyshop to discuss some details. Out of excitement, i forgot to take pictures, so the below one is the only one you'll see today. We also discussed a few portions of the bodywork done by the previous bodyshop and saw that some of the self-made bodypanels look nice at first glance but don't align to my quality standards, so i just placed another order for the RH rocker panels and floor pans, which are now available in better quality than the stuff i got 6 years ago. and he will re-do the work. Yeah it's a bit of a pain-in-the-back but at the end i want the result to be as close to perfect as possible, so i decided that little extra-work won't hurt while they're at it anyway. If everything goes well you'll see regulare updates here soon in this space. stay tuned.

Soo. today i have some big news. but let's start with the usual deliveries: 1) Something i've been searching for a while now. Well Actually i'm looking for the LHD L-Drive but this is the closest i found so far: an UK R-Drive manual: For those who don't know the L-Drive / R-drive is a Parts manual folder, but due to it's size it has the most detailed drawings and some additional informatino which is difficult to see or not existent in the microfiches, parts booklets etc. So my experience is that these are the most detailed parts books availabe (outside of NMC of course): Looks like your usual parts manual. This one is specific for the 240Z / 26oZ RHD Export specificatino booklets. so mainly UK and AUS, i guess. but i still have to see. I got it from the UK. 2) I also got this LH Inner wheel tub from KFVintageJDM in Bogota: Some may remember that i already got t his part from Tabco (USA). but i was never satisfied with the quality. Just look at the details like the little "humps" which are basically nonexistant in the Tabco item: Or the way they're cut at the edges, etc. And they came just in time, because i just got a coll from my Bodyshop that they will finally work on my car starting on Monday. Full-time with three men! Expecting big news soon. Early next week i'm going to visit them and bring an entire truckload of bodypanels for them to exchang :-)Stay tuned for more soon. hopefully. Oh and forgot to post this stuff which i got a while ago. 3) M-speed Nismo Competition racing mirror replica: Ventilation Intake pieces: And a nice print from Etsy: Which now found a nice place next to my signed Starroad Print in my garage. Let's see what the next weeks will bring. I also have a NOS parts lot find on it's way here and i'm just placing an order vor a cool Piece in Japan... Stay tuned for more

Recently a Datsun Friend introduced me to the "Service Data and specification" booklets, which i was unaware of before. Naturally i had to investigate, and luckily i found one for sale online. Strangely i have only ever seen the earlier versions in a mixed english / Spanish language print so far. However when i checked out my friend's DSSA parts lot recently, it also included a bunch of 1979 version booklet in german: The 1979 version only includes the S130, so the following pages are from the 1973 version with some pictures of the S30 stuff. The booklet's intention is for the Datsun workshop mechanic to have an overview of different specifications and interchangeability from the different NMC cars of an era. It is divided in general specifications, Motor and Body. There is also a similar booklet for non-passenger cars (trucks, etc) Here's some example of model codes used in the documentatino and some basic specification, which does not include the non-export versions. I like the overview, like shown here the different suspension options, on one page. I will use these to update some of my previously made knowledge posts. Here's another example, showing the Manual 5-speed transmission of 1973 (previous version not included). but it's a great overview of data. And there is plenty more to dicsover. Oh, and i had a talk to my bodyshop about the progress and it's still on schedule to restart work in approximately three weeks. Can't wait 🙂

Unfortunately i didn't take any measurements. maybe i can do it when i visit my friend next time. Yeah the video sounds interesting, let's see what we can recover. but it will definitely take some time to find the right person to do it.

A little Update: I found this Post wich mentions the "C/T & London" casting marks refer to a London based company named "Conversion & Tuning", of which i've never heard before: http://www.turbosport.co.uk/showthread.php?t=211869 this page has a short background information about it and an 1971 catalogue with lots of company photos and background information. the logo seems to match: https://mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk/conversion_tuning.htm Unfortunately this 1971 brochure does not contain any Z-related stuff (maybe they just added it later to their lineup), but the catalogue features some other Datsun related parts, so it seems highly likely that it must be this company.

Hmm very interesting. thanks for your inputs Alan. Here' are two more closeup pics. First a detail of the carbs, clearly visible as 40DCOE24: Secondly, the casting marks on the other top-side of the manifold, saing C / T. It may look like a "G" in this photo, but i verified in some other pictures and it's definitely a "C". The casting quality is not that "rough" as the one from Mangoletsi / Janspeed in your pictures (which looks exactly as what is in the Janspeed 1981 catalogue). But the one in the DSSA setups looks like somebody refinished the casting on the bottom side with a coarse file or something. My friend is trying to contact the previous owner to get some more details. I'll keep you updated.

The recent lot find, constinsting of many datsun Switzerland items, also contained a very cool one-off thing: A set of triple Weber carbs complete with Intake manifold and linkage. But the really cool part is that it came including an internal test report by Datsun (Suisse) SA, indicating that this very setup was used by Datsun Suisse SA (DSSA) to test said setup on a company or employee Datsun 240Z. The hand written notes are written on a DSSA "Internal report" sheet. something rarely seen alone. The date noted says June 1973The text on the front says (transleted loosely): Test performed on 240Z, with 9'806km on the odometer Triple webers with valve play 0.10/0.15. Cylinder head minus (1mm), "Super" fuel On the straight between Bremgarten / Wohlen (through the Forest), the max speed is short above 200 km/h Dietikon bis Fahrweid (down), short above 210 (km/h) Uetliberg, fourth corner in the 3rd gear, without jerking above 40km/h At slow speeds, acceleration is possible in 2nd gear below 1000 rpm Theoretically, with big tires, 240km/h should be possible Attention! Fuel nozzles are not the same in the three carbs (Backfire), probably better to mount the small one son all three carbs. Fuel consumtion seems rather improved compared to the original carbs. The straight road between Moudon-village entrance and Moudon industrial area - slightly downwards - allows slightly above 220km/h until village sign Moudon. On the back you find a sketch of the setup and settings, including the following note: Payerne, from cemetery direction village, = 190km/h at village sign. Back = 160 km/h at the cemetery Temperature 25°C. Only driver with full fuel tank. Looking closer at the setup, there are three Bologna (italy) made Weber 40DCOE24 type carbs. We were guessing the intake manifold, based on the "C/S" and then "London" cast marking we concluded that it might be a Janspeed UK manifold. It looks like some kind of "Datusun competition" derivate manifold. I forgot to take a picture from the bottom side, but it looks pretty "rough". Either somebody modified it a bit later, or the factory removed the casting remains really just rudimentary. At least this is what it looks like. However the 1981 Janspeed catalogue has an additional "bridge" between ports 3 and 4. so we're not sure. It might just be that there was a design evolution between the 70ies and 80ies on these intakes, or it was maybe a completely different brand. Looking closer, the ones in below catalogue photo also seem to be slightly longer than the ones in the photo. but the casting seems to fit (i don't have a detail photo of that) It is however very likely they used Janspeed, as it is rumored that DSSA had a loose relation with Janspeed and used to test their products on a variety of cars in switzerland. In case you're wondering, these are the part numbers of the Janspeed Weber triple DCOE intake manifolds and next to it you can find the prices (excluding VAT) in UK pounds £: As far as i know, Weber (or some reseller, maybe even DSSA itself) homologated a twin DCOE setup for the swiss market at some point, but i haven't yet investigated in that direction and still need to find out more. I know it's a pretty common setup over here. It's a nice piece of history of DSSA and the "scene" back then. I love the handwritten notes, and i'm happy to know they found a very good home (not mine), and will end up in a nice car (not mine), after being hidden for so many years.

A good friend of mine just recently sent me this photo and said i need to visit him ASAP, he got hands on some cool stuff. Who i am to turn such an offer down? Especially the boxes, martketing material and stuff made me a bit curious. it's not usually stuff to be found at dealerships or at collectors, but only at the Import Company Datsun Suisse SA, back in the days. And that's exactly where these parts come from. A former employee of DSSA took home random stuff which they wanted to scrap at some point, due to lack of space or some other cleanup. He stored the parts for many years, before putting them up for sale. A dealership at the other end of switzerland bought them and now they put this up for sale too. That's where my buddy Jumped in and made sure it ends up in good hands. It's pretty random stuff with many boxes of documents, a lot from the 80ies sadly, but also some really rare stuff.. There were also plenty of parts, but mainly for the Patrol car and some various less sporty Datsuns from back in the days. (Micra K10 anyone?). I helped unload a bit of the stuff, pre-sort some things and went through all the boxes. I was able to get some of the documents, but there were unfortunately no big Z-parts to take home. Nevertheless. i ended up with quite the lot of random datsun and Z documents: The lot also included a set of Triple Webers which datsun switerland used to test, including the test reports. I will tell you more about this pretty cool story in the coming days. My friend will keep this for himself as it's understandable One-off piece of swiss datsun history. But as i said, it consisted of mainly documents. Many of them not being very rare. But then again things like a NOS E88 head, NOS propeller shafts, or how about a complete NOS Datsun Cherry A12 Engine GT Racing kit? Speaking of cherry, the Lot also included multiple packs of Cherry advertizing stickers, straight from Japan: Loads of Posters and Training charts. Unfortunately mainly for boring cars. Please ignore the grilles in the background, they were not part of the lot and belong to my friend) And then some probably very rare Nissan Motor Co advertizing and training movies on 16mm FIlm: One from the 1972 East African Safari rallye: Or one from the 1969 Japan Grand prix race. We're currently trying to figure out of they're still usable and how we can digitalize them. Some of the roles had pretty cryptical names like "Group AZ" or something. I hope we can rescue them. If not the boxes themselves make a beautiful decoration. At the end, this is what i got home with me yesterday. That includes a set of nice original Datsun sales bags and spare parts wrapping: I like it so much, i will frame it an dhang it on the wall. A set of absolutely mint swiss (german / french) Datsun Z and ZX series operating manuals (including the correct 1972 one for my car!) Some sales brochures and price lists of the Z and ZX series A load of empty Datsun folders, which i like to put my Documents inside (already have plenty, but you never can have enough of those :-P) Also a NOS oil filter removal special tool and some small items (not part of the lot, but took them with me anyway :-P) A special yellow Datsun "advertizing" folder, which i've never seen before (empty) and a Datsun / Nissan special tool overview folder: Now this is the rare stuff: Documents used internally at Datsun Suisse SA to make notes, approve modifications on the car, to send with documents, or to make notes after the car returns from a repair: Also various unused workshop documents like the warranty claim form, Repair log pages, and carts as well as a specs-and-data booklet. On one of the boxes i also found s sticker of the shipping company, who was most probably given the task to import the spare parts from japan: The set also included a few factory Dias from the 240Z, and some customer photos of tuned Z's and ZX's: Also included were some newspaper cutouts and reviews from magazines from back in the day: Some cool manuals, which i so far only had in digital form (AUtomatic transmission in french, the S30 Heater manual and the American Competition parts catalogue): Also included was a complete folder full of original homologation specification sheets, used to get the cars homologated in switzerland! You still can find a copy of those in every registry in switzerland: This one is also nice: A users folder including service folder, the sticker that came with every new car, a three-year warranty card and the exhaust emission document: Then a few cool Nissan / Datsun documents, like letter drafts, or management training manuals, some shareholder documentatipmn, and a cool manual on how to use the digital satellite parts ordering system, if i got that right: The lot also included a set of Datsun 240Z information (mainly copies from the FSM, but still have to check it in detail), and a nice advertizing flyer template, which the Z on it: I still have to check them all out in detail and will post more in the coming days. Nothing crazy at the end of the day, but then again all those small, rare items, so i'm very happy at the end. great stuff. This will also allow me to update a few details in the Big Datsun Switzerland (Hi)story post. There was also a discussion about some bigger parts lots which still need to be picked up, so i hope i can help there too. even though it's more fun than work. Stay tuned...

Thanks. That's something i honestly still have to find out. I know the RHD cars had dedicated holes for installing it. I was hoping since the LHD cars got this as an optional "competition" item, there might be some place to put it. But since the chassis is in the bodyshop atm i wasn't able to check it out yet. My plan was to find a place when i assemble it. but maybe i should check beforehand Thanks for the input. Yeah it's likely possible that it's a Zclocks restauration. The seller was based in America and claimed it to be 100% restored. The only guy i know doing this in the US is Zclocks. Anyway it's in excellent condition

Today i managed to find something nice and rare. Something i have been looking for for a while and recently one popped up for sale: An original Nissan "two-button" Rallye clock including oscillator box in excellent shape: It consists of a the clock itself including the wires And the oscillator box: A while ago i got this aftermarket oscillator box From japan, which i don't need anymore, but since someone might be curious, here's a little comparison: For those who don't know the Rallye clock was Standard in some japanese cars, and also available as a dealer option over there. In other countries (USA for e.g.) the rallye clock was sold in the "competition" catalogues as an option as well: