Hectors 710 wagon...

[hillbillyhector]

...don't know quite how I got off on a tangent with the 710 wagons...but I like them (in a kinda "so ugly it's beautiful" way)

and after owning a bunch of 510 sedans, wagons, 1200s, 620s and a mess of other vintage Jap-rods....I figured what the heck.

 

wasn't expecting to do any kind of "build thread" cause I wasn't really planning on "building" it. just some minor body work, coilovers, wheels, done.

Haven't driven the car since the day I bought it (typical story with me)...and after a brief feeling of buyers remorse & self-inflicted emotional abuse, my girlfriend decided that it was 'cute' (thank god for orange paint!) and I decided that I just might put it together for her, keeping the auto trans.

 

anyways, here is the progression of things, and don't fear this one WILL get done (there's a woman involved) by next summer show-season.

 

 

pics sent from Rustrocket:

 

 

[INDY510]

...don't know quite how I got off on a tangent with the 710 wagons...but I like them (in a kinda "so ugly it's beautiful" way)

 

That goes away after a while................ they start lookin' better everyday....... :lol:

 

 

 

510s are too boxy..... ;)

[hillbillyhector]

towed home:

 

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk228/hillbillyhector/Hectors/DSC_0012.jpg

 

the body damage was a bummer...but the interior? immaculate!

...after my first assessment, the decision was made to just bodywork the damaged panels, and repaint ONLY what was needed. the original factory paint was acceptable, and I really wasn't planning a "show" approach (removing every piece of gasket & trim to replace/restore)...luckily the original color isn't a metallic, and our paint guy Matt is a genius.

 

 

 

 

we won't get into why I hate myself sooo thoroughly, but for some reason I like to do things the hard way.

after painting the damaged side, and it coming out beautiful...it made the previously repaired-and-reshot side look like dog poop.

(poor color match & shoddy bodywork)...so we finish...and start again.

 

 

 

(G-Reg gettin style points for the smoke hangin)

[hillbillyhector]

...and then I realize that I reeeaaalllly don't want to put the bumpers back on.

 

[hillbillyhector]

 

"I'll have this job banged out in an hour!"

[hillbillyhector]

 

[hillbillyhector]

 

How many times on and off the car, you ask? Many.

[hillbillyhector]

 

[hillbillyhector]

wow there's a few people on here hu? waddaya guys think of the part?

[hillbillyhector]

just bought another couple sets of epsilons:

 

http://forums.club4ag.com/zerothread?id=78839

 

 

...but just keep coming back to black watanabes.

[hillbillyhector]

this thing's gonna look good in a pumpkin patch next month next to my grandma's corolla liftback:

 

[INDY510]

Oh damm you!!!!!

 

 

 

you just reminded me another reason why my 710 needs to be running before November....... Oh yeah,, and the bumpers look fucking gorgeous

[hillbillyhector]

see you @ the pumpkin patch bro! (remember to bring a '70s summer dress-clad chick with feathered hair and a smile)

[bonvo]

that bumper idea is bad ass!!! do a front do it now!!!!

[hillbillyhector]

yea, the front. next on the list. "do it now"....how's a couple weeks sound?...if only I had customers with 710s, there would be molds to make.

[datzenmike]

You make a mold for this?????? I want one. Yeah I hear you about the 710. An auto sedan fell into my hands but the goon was a deliberate act. Think I like the goon lines better.

[hillbillyhector]

sorry Mike, not making molds. cost prohibitive. This is a one-off for sure. I could make molds, but it would probably require a group-buy kinda thing, and even then it would be hard to get the cost below 500$ per piece (ready for paint with brackets)....I'm just not set up for production work.

[hillbillyhector]

this is the back side of the bumper, prior to the outer layup...there's a steel plate with threaded inserts on the inside, that the box tube brackets mount to, they then mount just like a factory bumper.

 

[fisch]

Wow Hector that bumper is GREAT! It deserves a thread all its own in the how to section! Please do one when you get to the front!!!

[datzenmike]

wow there's a few people on here hu? waddaya guys think of the part?

 

 

Damn yeah! Maybe I could try it. Damn this is great! I found some bumpers from a early hardtop? The chrome smiley ones for my sedan but the tweaker wants 250 for the whole, sitting in a field for 10 years, car. Was thinking of wood but way harder to work with.

 

This would work on any 'park bench' equipped Datsun. I mean anything is better that them. Even nothing.

 

Need to know what that stiff foamy stuff is.

Do you just cut to shape and rasp it down and sand it?

Couldn't you also run some steel between the brackets for some BUMP protection? a sort of hidden bumper under the glass one?

[Jassifrass]

yea, the front. next on the list. "do it now"....how's a couple weeks sound?...if only I had customers with 710s, there would be molds to make.

 

 

i want your bumpers that is really awesome. :thumbup:

[king bee66]

make me a set for my b210 :)

[hillbillyhector]

Damn yeah! Maybe I could try it. Damn this is great! I found some bumpers from a early hardtop? The chrome smiley ones for my sedan but the tweaker wants 250 for the whole, sitting in a field for 10 years, car. Was thinking of wood but way harder to work with.

 

This would work on any 'park bench' equipped Datsun. I mean anything is better that them. Even nothing.

 

Need to know what that stiff foamy stuff is.

Do you just cut to shape and rasp it down and sand it?

Couldn't you also run some steel between the brackets for some BUMP protection? a sort of hidden bumper under the glass one?

 

 

yea, there's a piece of steel tube sandwiched in the (two part expanding, from 'Fiberglast') foam against the base, tying the two nutserted mounting plates together, I epoxyed the plates in place, then realized that additional support made sense, to minimize shrinkage flex during glass layup.

[hillbillyhector]

you guys just wait till my vacuum-forming machine is completed!! (big enough to pop out whole dashes and aero parts!!)

[Jassifrass]

will you be my new best friend? :D