Aibast Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 Hi you all Datsun fans, greetings from eastern-europe. I found this forum when searching for info on Datsun 620. Have just bought one. It was originaly sold in Finland, in the early 90's moved to Estonia and I'm now the owner of this car. Got it for Oltimers rally car. Regularity rally events for cars older then 30 years. Here it is the yellow pickup - halled it home with my daily driver Volvo 850R Parked in its current location. It drives, brakes are bad, lights all don't work and has some rust holes. As you can see from the pictures the back side panels have been replaced by someone in the past. The inside was covered with "rust proofing" that I now have removed. The original seat is in reabuild, the seat frame is repaired and is waiting for new covers. Needs new seatbelts and a lot of other things. Here then are some pictures. I'll try to keep this thread updated as I prepare the car for the next event in February. 1 Quote Link to comment
hogger69 Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 Hi you all Datsun fans, greetings from eastern-europe. I found this forum when searching for info on Datsun 620. Have just bought one. It was originaly sold in Finland, in the early 90's moved to Estonia and I'm now the owner of this car. Got it for Oltimers rally car. Regularity rally events for cars older then 30 years. Here it is the yellow pickup - halled it home with my daily driver Volvo 850R Parked in its current location. It drives, brakes are bad, lights all don't work and has some rust holes. As you can see from the pictures the back side panels have been replaced by someone in the past. The inside was covered with "rust proofing" that I now have removed. The original seat is in reabuild, the seat frame is repaired and is waiting for new covers. Needs new seatbelts and a lot of other things. Here then are some pictures. I'll try to keep this thread updated as I prepare the car for the next event in February. i want your dash bad!!! Quote Link to comment
wayno Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 Welcome to Ratsun :rolleyes: Nice job on the photos. :thumbup: Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted September 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 I also think it's the only Datsun 620 in Estonia - spare parts is a bit of an issue. Quote Link to comment
wildmaninid Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 Looks great! I LOVE longboxes. Someone did some fancy work on the box. E-bay is a huge resource for hard to find parts. Take lots of pictures. Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted September 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 started out with getting the original seat to its frame. Here is what it looked like as I got it. After removing the makeshift cover, I found the original cover underneath. That's going to be the template for the new black seat covers. New cover will be black vinul/Synthetic leather. For the reason of being easy to clean when it gets dirty. Getting in and out of the car during a rally will get mud and other kind of stuff in there. The frame was cracked and broken in some places. Some springs were broken. A friend of mine welded it all back together now. Looked around for some rims, but I can only use 185 R14 C tyres on my truck in here. Welcome to the EU for that. So no wide and tall mud tyres for the truck. Need to find 185/70R14C M+S tyres. Here is a link to last years winter rally pics. I was the navigator in the Alfa Romea Giulitta. We lost a wheel on 35th km of the whole 380km trip. But it back on using construction polts and anchors. http://album.ee/album/95341/50300619 Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted September 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2012 A better pic from the inside of the car. A friend is painting the seatframe Quote Link to comment
Willdatsun Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Hi! All the American guys will be looking at your dash and saying 'wow no cracks!' If you get stuck on parts its worth asking me, i MAY be able to help as I am bringing some stuff over from USA to England. Quote Link to comment
lovedatsun Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Nice long bed. Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted September 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Hi! All the American guys will be looking at your dash and saying 'wow no cracks!' If you get stuck on parts its worth asking me, i MAY be able to help as I am bringing some stuff over from USA to England. Thanks, it good to know. First need to figure out a bad repaire job on the wiring. Almost everything works, no indication lights at the moment. Have some loose fires, uncovered connectors and so on. It's good that these cars have a simple electric system. Going to open up the harnes and check for bad wires, and replace when needed. After that the brakes need fixing, pickup doesn't pass MOT, so its going to be some time before it's legal do drive it again. Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted September 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 a bit of searching and found some oldschool seatbelts - made in 1992 by Norma under swedish license. Safety first :) Now need to modify the mounts. Quote Link to comment
banzai510(hainz) Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Norma????? Swedish Ammunition maker Most European Datsun trucks were J motors for soem reason. In USA most are of coarse L motors. Alot more J motors were sold in England. Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted September 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Other estonian company called Norma. http://www.norma.ee/. This I think has J15 under the hood. Quote Link to comment
Spoona_Jay21 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 looks good man! my dads been lookin for a longbed. Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted September 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2012 After some messing around with wires I got my front lights working. Someone had routed the lights trough relays, Some connections where corroded. Cleaned all up and here they are. Side ones are H4's and the ones in the center are H1's. Lowbeams highbeams Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted September 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Well this post has nothing to with the Datsun, but just finished Oldtimers Nightrace. This is the Alfa Romeo that we have used for 4 years now. I'm the navigator/codriver in this one. Our Alfa suffered a chain brake @ 2/3 of the race. So valves hit the pistons and that was it. Here are some pics. I hope next year I'll be driving my yellow pickup. Here is the full album of pics I could take. Nighttime and lot to do,so I can't take a lot of pictures. http://album.ee/album/587773/50315555 Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted September 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 What I did today: well, removed the dash. next, removing everything else so that I could repaint the insides of the car. After that new all new wires with new relays and fuses. Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted September 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 haven't done much. Just finished the towing frame for the car. So I can get to where I want it with out a trailer and a driver. Just hook it up and go. Quote Link to comment
Willdatsun Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 take off those horrible hub caps! :) Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted October 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 take off those horrible hub caps! :) These things are already recycled... Its going to be just painted steelies. Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted October 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2012 My wife finished with the upper part of the seat. Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted October 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 This is what the seat looked like before This is what it looks like now. Black vinul yellow stitching. Took the car to a friends house. He has all the equipment I need for working on this car. Also cleaned out the cars interior for new paint. @ moment soaking it in rust removing/changing chemicals. 1 Quote Link to comment
nismo dr Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 that seat is beautiful Quote Link to comment
Willdatsun Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 Well done. Have you seen my 620 Kingcab? I wonder if it is the only one in Europe! http://community.ratsun.net/topic/46963-mustard-620-kc-from-or-to-england/page__st__20 Quote Link to comment
Aibast Posted October 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 I've looked @ the thread. I sometimes wish mine was a KC. or a short bed. But I think I can manage :) Quote Link to comment
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