Icehouse Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 YEAAHHHH!!! Coupe Coupe Coupe Coupe!!!!!! After riding in Rich's and Carter's coupes and seeing them drive around I've wanted one. Big thanks to Carter for helping make this happen in more ways than one! Carter and I actually have been working with an importer for I think over a year, and would you guess he found this one local on Craigslist!!!! It was posted Friday, I got a frantic text with a link to the add. Of coarse like any Craigslist shopper I didn't read the add I just called him. Guess what, I was the first caller and he promised to let me look at it first thing on Saturday. Like good Datsun shoppers Carter drove us down in his Coupe :) The plans are to just drive it and just do little things. It runs and drives fine, stumbles sometimes but I think that's due to bad gas and hopefully will go away with some driving. Carter named it due to the color which is interesting. haha Here are some pictures of it. It's an interesting coupe due to it not being a SSS, it's also an Auto! haha. It's defiantly had some bad rust repair in the rockers, fenders and quarters, the funny thing to me is the floors are nice and rust free. Or at least they seem that way. It does have a 620 ignition which I don't like. Small stuff can be changed as I drive it. 18 Quote Link to comment
flatcat19 Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Too cool. 1 Quote Link to comment
mklotz70 Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Congrats!! 1 Quote Link to comment
hobbes_the_cat Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 I was wondering who would get that. I'm glad it's you.... I am jealous though. :) 1 Quote Link to comment
DatMo Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Awesome sUpper jealous and the grille is rare af lol. I'm excited to see what you do. I think you're extremely talented so I look forward to this. 1 Quote Link to comment
Draker Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Damn... awesome! 1 Quote Link to comment
mytoy521 Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Congrats on SSSUPER purchase. 1 Quote Link to comment
tr8er Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Very cool to find one around the hood. It couldn't have found a better home. Congrats. 1 Quote Link to comment
Bleach Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 That's cool. :geek: 1 Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Check the build date. '71 had the fake wood grain console and was the first year with automatic. '70 and '71 had the Base (KP510AWT), Sport and SSS models and '71 had an optional L18SSS. Wow, just wow. Sooo nice. 1 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Carter and I actually have been working with an importer for I think over a year, and would you guess he found this one local on Craigslist!!!! I got Granny in November 2015 and it took us a year to find that car so we have been shopping in Japan for 2 years now... Came so close a couple times too. Heartbreakingly so. Good things come to those who wait! Awesome sUpper jealous and the grille is rare af lol. I'm excited to see what you do. I think you're extremely talented so I look forward to this. It appears to have the same "white line" grill as my late '69 SSS coupe. It's not the cast grill on the early '69 coupe, it uses the same construction as most of the other 510 grills, but retains the large middle bar with the white paint. Jeff's has a Coupe grill badge which I don't think I've seen in person before, just in a Japanese sales brochure. So many cool things on this car make it different and fun. Congratulations Jeff! 2 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 P.S. I made a little snack for you. I have it at my desk. :D 1 Quote Link to comment
]2eDeYe Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Nice score, saw that one on CL too. Good to see it become part of the family :D 1 Quote Link to comment
uieluck Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Fu Kin Sii Iick! I actually was scrambling funds and was gonna contact him to snag this.. Then I re-checked the post about 20mins later—shit was deleted. I said to my bitch "jesus, that was effing quick"! A lot of work there. But definitely worth it! Congratulations! :thumbup: 1 Quote Link to comment
uieluck Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Charge your phone man! :lol: Also, how tall are you? JESUS!, you look 7'4" in this photo. :rofl: 2 Quote Link to comment
Lockleaf Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Chocolate Covered Circus Peanut. Three Cs and a P. Dare I say you call it... 3CP "oh!" 4 Quote Link to comment
carterb Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Or? Though Jeff may prefer this version: 5 Quote Link to comment
uieluck Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Chocolate Covered Circus Peanut. Three Cs and a P. Dare I say you call it... 3CP "oh!" Except.. in Russian those are: S's s in soft "s" and the p is "r", for "republic"..... but who cares about details. :ninja: What do I know about Russia. Not much, just lived there for 3 years too long. 2 Quote Link to comment
Trophy24 Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Congrats Jeff! Wow man that's great 1 Quote Link to comment
hobospyder Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Charge your phone man! :lol: Also, how tall are you? JESUS!, you look 7'4" in this photo. :rofl: i have met the Icehouse, he is under 6' iirc so that other guy is just super midget status 3 Quote Link to comment
Abe Froman Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Since it is a base model does it still have front drum brakes ? 1 Quote Link to comment
DISLEXICDIME Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 You going to sr20det this one 1 Quote Link to comment
MYDAILYROUTINE Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Congrats! Sweet score! 1 Quote Link to comment
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