510 Trans Am Decor Package

[BB510]

Does anyone have accurate details on the "Trans Am Decor Package"?

I have seen the brochure and purchased one. How did this program work?

Were these parts just dealer installed options? I have seen pictures of
two cars claiming to be Trans Am Decor Package cars and they both had
Red seats and carpeting. I wouldn't imagine that dealers would install
different seats and carpeting?

Does anyone have a price list? The last page of the brochure has
Interparts address and phone number. How was Interpart/BRE involved
in this if at all?

Is there any accounting of how many cars were equiped with the
Trans Am Decor Package?

Page two of the brochure has a somewhat stylized depiction of the
Brock Buster adding the BRE Stripes which are part of the Decor Package.
I do not see anywhere in the brochure that fiberglass is an option yet
the two cars I have seen claiming to be Trans Am Decor Package cars
have front and rear BRE style flares.

Thanks all!

BB510

 

[DanielC]

Have you seen this post?

http://community.ratsun.net/topic/73597-bre-510/

[BB510]

That is not what I am talking about. But this is (maybe):

 

https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/cto/d/1973-datsunoriginal-miles/6538046207.html

[]2eDeYe]

http://community.ratsun.net/topic/56657-twisted-images-bagged-body-dropped-rotary-powered-510/page-1

 

 

 

[datzenmike]

Red front floor carpet is 74902-21402

Driver's (2dr) door card red is 80901-A3100

Driver's red bucket seat is 87050-21100

 

There were even red seat belts and head rests but you could just order these on your car new. Never ever heard of a can am package.

[BB510]

 

 

[datzenmike]

Available from BRE? (heard of that)

[Josh K.]

That is not what I am talking about. But this is (maybe):

 

https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/cto/d/1973-datsunoriginal-miles/6538046207.html

Damn.... For 40G's I would expect flares that matched...

 

 

[Jesse C.]

http://community.ratsun.net/topic/38474-1972-datsun-510-trans-am-decor-package-program-car-bre-authentic-parts/

 

 

[datsunfreak]

Does anyone have accurate details on the "Trans Am Decor Package"? I have seen the brochure and purchased one. 

 

Sounds like you have the details to me?   ^_^

 

Were these parts just dealer installed options? 

 

Yes.

 

I have seen pictures of two cars claiming to be Trans Am Decor Package cars

 

Easy to claim with no way to back it up except having the original window sticker that shows the VIN and the option package, 

 

Also, would it add any extra value to the car? Not really. Not unless it was 100% original and in pristine condition. Restored or modified would mean any perceived "added value" is long gone. 

 

 in this if at all?The last page of the brochure has Interparts address and phone number. How was Interpart/BRE involved

 

Likely not much more than lending their name to it. 

 

Is there any accounting of how many cars were equiped with the Trans Am Decor Package?

 

Being a dealer installed package, nope. 

[datzenmike]

The spook, and the tach would be an improvement but hood pins? really??? the rest is just dress up including the steering wheel. 

 

You could probably duplicate the kit with some work but finding the badges would be difficult.

[datsunfreak]

You could probably duplicate the kit with some work but finding the badges would be difficult.

 

Dash one is easy. C-pillar badges, never even heard of anyone reproducing those...

 

 

 

but hood pins? really???

 

The BRE race car had them, so...   

 

 

 

 

the rest is just dress up

 

This whole thing is 100% dress-up...   ^_^

[datzenmike]

I don't like body piercings for the same reason. It's mutilation....

[BB510]

Dash one is easy. C-pillar badges, never even heard of anyone reproducing those...

 

 

 

The BRE race car had them, so...   

 

 

 

This whole thing is 100% dress-up...   ^_^

 

So if we take this white car for sale......

 

I assume that $40k or more was spent on the restoration as it appears well done to me. 

 

According to what I know about this "Trans Am Décor Package" the BRE fiberglass fenders were not part of it. So the fact that this

car has BRE fiberglass has nothing to do with the "Trans Am Décor Package" it is just a further modification to this car?

 

I do think that hood pins on a factory steel hood are quite funny. 

 

-BB510

[MikeRL411]

This is an old German saying "Yeder tsu seinem geshmuck" or Each to his own taste !  Pennsylvania Dutch just might also recognize .I don't like .

[datsunfreak]

So the fact that this car has BRE fiberglass has nothing to do with the "Trans Am Décor Package" it is just a further modification to this car?

 

Yes. 

 

Also, without receipts, that is not a "fact". 

 

This is one of my past 510s. This car had genuine BRE fenders and rear flares, installed in 1973, with the paperwork to prove it. Without that, they are worth nothing more than one with reproduction fenders...

 

 

[Tedman]

Photo at corner of Bluebird Avenue.  Nice!  :thumbup: 

 

Seriously, the Trans Am décor package was just a dealer aftermarket parts marketing promotion for dress up parts that could be purchased at your local Datsun parts counter, and most, if not all of those parts were also available from BRE/Interpart as well.  Some dealers undoubtedly threw the décor kit catalog at a few cars and sold them off the lot for a markup, but I'm guessing mostly those bits found their way onto cars as piece parts sold over the parts counter.

[Jesse C.]

My old 69 had the Mulholland package on it, that I got off a '73. Simply just sway bars, coils and shocks. I have run across cars with all sorts of little bits that came off other cars or the dealership parts dept. 

 

And yes, they where all pretty much regular 510's with little goodies here and there. Most of these items can still be obtained rather easily and if not, who would really know about them?

 

In my opinion, this package is only really desirable to a hardcore Datsun guy and not to the guy getting ready to replace a L-18SSS with an SR engine. 

[datzenmike]

IF.... you had the complete TransAm kit it might be worth something to someone.... maybe. Mostly for the tach, wheel and spook.