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After three years of ownership that I totally enjoyed I parted with my Nismo 370z yesterday.Having owned a 350 and 370z Nismo I have to say what great fun to own and great cars they have both been. My next project keeps me in the fold. I have sourced a car which has been displayed in the Datsun heritage centre  in South Africa ( Available on YouTube) for the last 8 years. It has been offered for sale from the collection to me which I am very excited about. The car is a 1971 Datsun 1600 SSS Coupe, right hand drive in very good condition. She is being prepped and shipped to me and should be in the UK in 8 weeks time. I plan to fully restore her to top show condition but keep her totally original. I will remain on the forum and act as a South East REO as long as my services are required. I am very excited.

 

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6 hours ago, Payco said:

After three years of ownership that I totally enjoyed I parted with my Nismo 370z yesterday.Having owned a 350 and 370z Nismo I have to say what great fun to own and great cars they have both been. My next project keeps me in the fold. I have sourced a car which has been displayed in the Datsun heritage centre  in South Africa ( Available on YouTube) for the last 8 years. It has been offered for sale from the collection to me which I am very excited about. The car is a 1971 Datsun 1600 SSS Coupe, right hand drive in very good condition. She is being prepped and shipped to me and should be in the UK in 8 weeks time. I plan to fully restore her to top show condition but keep her totally original. I will remain on the forum and act as a South East REO as long as my services are required. I am very excited.

 

Martin

I am surprised Matin, i thought you were going the 240z road, looking forward to seeing what your going to do with the datson sss

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On ‎14‎/‎10‎/‎2019 at 13:43, Adrian@TORQEN said:

Great news, Martin and congrats!

 

Is this the one? https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1158880 :D

No Adrian. Mine is the SSS 1600 Coupe and is in much better condition. I have a sales director based in South Africa who viewed the car for me and we did a WhatsApp video during viewing. I have also received over 100 photos and videos. Just a few photos to share at this point. YouTube clip below of a finished car in nice nick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIzgy6DLEIc

 

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33 minutes ago, Paul K said:

looks very similar in its styling to the 71' 2000gt-r, 

Yes it does, but pretty sure it would have been a bit less expensive!

 

I do like the style of that generation of cars from Japan, I was so tempted to get an RA28 Celica but bottled it and went for a VX. Who knows in future though! The Celicas do look quite fantastic with a bit of tinkering!

 

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12 hours ago, coldel said:

Yes it does, but pretty sure it would have been a bit less expensive!

 

I do like the style of that generation of cars from Japan, I was so tempted to get an RA28 Celica but bottled it and went for a VX. Who knows in future though! The Celicas do look quite fantastic with a bit of tinkering!

 

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I really like that, very rare they fetch good money

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Doesn't make much sense as that's not far off what I sold it for. Rubbish ad, for starters they are 19 inch Work Emotion rims, not 18....At least we know they are selling a decent car for once :teeth:

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Little update. She's due in at the London Gateway port on 30/12/2019. Nearly there.:drive1

 

No off the shelf suspension available for this so have been busy building a set of coilovers as she needs dropping. Going to get her fully undersealed and protected and then bring her out to play.

 

She needs to sit like this one..

 

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6 minutes ago, coldel said:

For a minute I thought that was yours Martin :lol:

That's a standard 510 mate. I have the SSS but that's the drop I am working on. Your car is looking very good Col. Looking forward to joining you in the non z parking zone next Spring.

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