Hi All, I'm new to this site and relatively new to Dato's. I'm just finishing off my first Datsun project, which is a 2 year build of a heavily customised 1000 ute. It's the typical rebuild story, where a 6 week touch up turned into a 24 month overhall and a lot more dollars then I care to admit. I'm nearly finished the job, but if anyone's interested I've got some pics and can run through the build so far? Thanks to whoever put the forum together. There doesn't seem to be too many 1000's left, so it's great to be able to share info and images. Cheers

Welcome to the forum,

I would love to see some pics of your ute,
You can upload pics into your own gallery within your account and then link them using the image browser tab.

Ashley

Yep, it had mags.....and Tiger Mica gold paint (commo colour), custom grille, custom rear with commo wagon tail lights (they must've liked commodores), XU1 flutes in the front guards, alloy drop tank, cobra race seats and harnesses, tasmanian oak lined tray, hard tray cover with tilt, lowered suspension, new carpets, resprayed interior, timber steering wheel and gear knob, full set of gauges. It also had a huge XYGT rear spoiler, but I took that off cause it was just too wide.The body looks to be a bare metal resto, with all rust removed. Looking inside doors and inside the tray they've done some tidy welding.







These are from my phone camera in low light, so not very clear. I'll take some proper ones and update them.

sweeeeeett lol not much on the mags, taillights or side mirrors but the rest looks shmick they/you have done a good job

Im going to have to agree I was dumbfounded when you said C-whore rearlights
but it actually looks awesome with those lights and the smoothed out look.
If you use adhesive chrome dressing strip on the top and bottom of the rear
tailights it will break up the mass of one colour and really bring out that retro cool
that belongs to that era.

Wheels, mirror and side indicator change will make a huge difference also
but the quality of the work throughout looks like a really good buy and a great
base to cosmetically modify to bring out the era look it deserves and have a truly
unique example of one of the best 1000 utes around. The grille looks great and if
you get an early "D" insignia or better a "datsun" it will rock! 
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upside down headgasket...

Dude that ute is sweet. really nice to see a good one like that. I must admit im more into the 1000 style of lights though but hey ya cant not appreciate somthing like yours man i love seeing somthing different. well done.
 

That is one sweet looking ute. A1 job mate

The Heaters were an option, Pretty much everything was an option.
 
Some things that we think of as normal that were options on 1000's are...
Heater, Radio, Clock, Even carpet was an option if you were buying a 1000 in STD trim.
It even lists Safety belts an an option, Wow.
There is a page and a half full of options in one of the datsun service bullitens I have here.
 
Although I have a sales brochure from England that claims heater to be standard. so I guess it would depend on what country the car was bought in.

Heaters pop up on ebay and yahoo every so often.
 
Here is a pic of a 1000 heater so you know one when you see it on ebay.