Victor Laury

Now we're talking! with the proper wheels and close to perfect S20 details, well worth the $74,142.18. Now, if I had only won this weeks lottery, they'd be boxing her up for me.

Steve, Your photos are now approved. I'm unable to rename the folder to "Datsun Heritage Museum Grand Opening", so we'll need to leave that to Mike.

Rebuild kits - http://www.drivetrain.com/nissian4_5sprwd.html

9,450,000 yen

$87,799.95 USD

Not much info about the car on that page and clicking around didn't help much.

The Prince 2000GT is nice. $25,000 sounds ball park - But I really do have not a clue.

Me thinks the 432 is a waste - for 50K, I'd want the S20 and the FS5C71A in place and the R190 too. That hardware is Really to hard to obtain to make a restoration feasible without it.

Well then Sell them to me for $600

Oh and if anyone sees a set of four spoke Watanabe, or 2-piece Empi Magnesiums - Call me first!

These are very rare wheels. They are highly prized in Japan and fetch very high prices. The wide, deep offset models are the most expensive. So much so, that Hayashi has remade the widest models. The new ones are $800+ each wheel. the originals are more valuable.

With the weak dollar, I figure that most likley, this set will sell and return to Japan.

The vintage Japanese wheel market is not for everyone. 7 years ago I bought new SSR MkII's for $1,100. Now a new set will run $1,800+. Used SSR Reverse Meshes 7'' to 9'' wide are selling reqularly at $1,200 a set. I often buy Vintage wheels at $600 a set. I don't want Panasports and sure as Hell will never buy Chinese Knock-offs, even if they are $300 for four. But that is My tastes, My hobby - I'm a wheel whore, and there a bunch of us.

To the Japanese Vintage wheel collector the The Sakura/Yayaoi are the holy grail. To eveyone else - They're as weird as Japanese Vintage Wheel Collectors!

Here's my collection

SSR MkII - 15X7 @ 0 Bought new $1,100 on the Z

Adavan A3A Circa 1983 14X6 @6 $600

SSR Formula Star Circa 1980 14X6 @10 $550

Hayashi/Tecno TVR Circa 1979 14X6 @15 $500 on the 510

SSR/Longchamp XR4 Circa 1984 14X6.5 @7 $350 + $600 restoration

SSR Bright Star Circa 1985 14X6.5 @7 $900 on the roadster

Hayashi Street II Circa 1978 14X6.5 @9 $600

SSR MkI 15X6.5 @7 Circa 1980 $600

Hoshino/Impul D-01 Silhouettes 14X6 @12 Circa 1982 $350

I also have some Non Japanese wheels of note- but that's a different thread.

Skip Miller - Miller Sports Imports in Pasadena. Good ole Datsun Dealer mechanic gone solo. Where are you located?

"Your wheel collection was your ticket out" Still addicted I see! Will

O hell yea! And it's still growing. As evident by the stacks of wheels in various places throughout the house - the latest? A set of circa 1983 Hoshino Impul D-01 Silhouettes (here in the office) and a set of SSR Mk1's in the living room (more like the Datsun Parts wearhouse than "living room")

Yayoi - Casted by Hayashi to become cult legends. I'm wondering which arm I need less. Pink wheels on a brown 510 - umm - Maybe if I painted the bluebird black.... Those are the Ideal offset... I don't really need to repair that retaining wall. Nothing vital will slide down the hill . Just a peice of my driveway.... humm.

Rick, I said what I said and stick by it. I know a fiend from a friend. Mostly, my friends are fiends in some fashion or another. I hung around here for sometime, me thinks I addressed this group justly.

By the way. I bought this issue at Kinokuniya last week in Littke Tokyo. Really nice issue, almost all on Hybrid and Racing Z's, the MSA show and featured SoCal collectors.

おめでとう　クレイグ

Ｃｏｎｇｒａｔｓ　Ｃｒａｉｇ！

Dam, I know all these people! Thanks. No, It wasn't the Iron Bottom, not it could have been the shock from the announcement that this year's event was the Last Iron bottom.

Installing a windsheild in the 510 this weekend - and I think the roadster needs a dusting.

...o kaeri nasai!

It means "Welcome Home" in the most familiar fashion.

Thanks!

I've been buisy with work, which stepped up a couple notches the last year or so. Had/Have some helth issues which I'm getting under control. Drive Datsuns of course!

I've been collecting Nostalgic Heros - Lots of ebay purchases from Japan. Just 32 more ussues to complete the set! Don't ask how much I've spent. I fear the accounting, so I avoid adding it up!

Hey folks! Have you all been good Datsun fiends? It's been a long time. I kinda miss you all.

I thought of the classic Z forum today, when I bought the latest Vintage auto Vol. 14. They had an article on the MSA show and featured some very familar faces.

Just stopping by to say 久しぶりですね？　Long time, no see.

Victor, If he was writing the colour 'blue', he'd have been more likely to use Kanji I reckon. Japanese word for the colour blue ( phonetically "Aoi" ) sounds quite close to phonetic "Oiru" / oil, so maybe that tripped you?

It did. I read it as ao iro (blue color), thinking that he was in a hurry and didnt select the kanji, just hammering it out in Katakana.

アオイロ　青色　オイル　僕アホーです！

aoiro aoiro oiru

One of these things are not like the other. I'm a fool but still learning.

Very weird how the Google Translator messed up on the Showa and Heisei dates! You'd think it would get those right. My practice reading katakana is paying off. It's getting easier to read the original over the Google translation!

カヤバオイルショック - KYB Blue Shocks - not - KAYABAOIRUSHOKKU

kirei desu ne? Yea, It does look like the took the wide 9'' wats off and put a set of 6's @ + 21 on for the sale, which looks mighty hen under those flairs

I just picked up this treasure at the L.A. Kinokuniya Bookstore for $14 Bucks and well worth my collection! It's also at their Portland and San Jose Stores, as well as Amazon.co.jp. there's an HS30-H that looks Like Alan's car as well as perfect examples of Fairlaidies from the SPL212 to Z33.

Search for ISBN978-4-86190-257-4

http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/4861902576/ref=dp_change_lang/249-8706006-9807564?ie=UTF8&language=en%5FJP

http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp

Really! A Five Page Spread!!! My goodness! Your famous! I'm parking next to you so some of the cool can rub off.

Hey Mike! I'm jelous. Can we monthly subscribers have a color too? How about.... GOLD!

despite what "friends" think of them, I love them and I think they're the crowning jewel for the resto of my 240.....sx:cheeky:

And you are correct, sir. Those Wat RSRs are the proper and fitting (Tadashii?) Silvia wheel. I'd suggest bring them to a pro polish house. I'n my opinion they well worth the expense of a proper polishing and paint.

Thanks Mike! Merry Xmas everone. Christmas is'nt something I celebrate, but it's special to me. I live on a hill overlooking LA. Xmas morning, the city is so quiet. Silent like no other day. The 2 freeway, normally buzzing with car tires is an empty stretch of blacktop. I sit out on my back terrace, drinking coffee and drinking in the city at peace.

That was a funny clip Dennis!

Sorry Stephen, my Japanese is still no to the level needed to translate. Unfortunatly, I do know who they are referring to as "ojisan" (old dude) in your caption

The latest Vintage Auto is just out with a write-up on the JCCS. There's some familiar cars and faces. Funny, the best coverage of the SoCal Nippon KyuSha scene is a Japanese mag.