Hi guys, I thought I might show you all what I just bought and my story so far. I've been looking for something different as a daily and I stumbled on this find. Got it from near Gatton and thought it was a good buy. When we went to pick it up it looked good, fresh backyard 2pac spray job was not the best with heaps of runs and fish eye but it looked pretty easy to fix. Got it home and started to clean it up and found some pretty bad rust. Inside the tray was awesome with no rust but under the carpet in the cab it was bad, the front part of the floors had been repaced before but the rear section of the floor was pretty eaten away. Bloody tar paint had hidden the truth of the state of the floors. I've just finished repacing the floor and seat mounts. Came out really well. Now just ordered r31 brakes for the front and going to start on the mechanical work. So all is going good so far.





















Some Specs At the Moment



1968 Datsun 1000 ute

A12 motor

Small race cam

Twin SU Carby's

Lowering blocks in back

Cut down front spring rubbers

12" chrome mags



In the next month or so I'm going to fit the front discs and a new m/cyl and also change the mag wheels to 15" x 8" 0 offset ones I've found. Then just enjoy it. I'll keep you all posted



Cheers

Looking clean Mikey.

There is a bit of talk about brakes on here at the moment,
If you get a chance to take some pics of the brakes when they are done, a few of us on here would be interested.

lol at the guys in the back haha, the silver wheels look sweet

did you buy this from a young guy?

do you know about otomoto? they import 2nd hand jap wheels occasionally they've got some nice wheels. they've got some hayashi streets on there at the moment *droool* haha



http://otomoto.shop033.com/c/4056608/1/used-13-and-14-inch-wheels.html

Mate I think you MIGHT have an A12GX motor there.

A few more pics would help to confirm but so far it looks like it is. Nice!

Awesome, I just googled it and it has more hp then standard a12's and are good for higher rpm. ha I'm stoked. I'll post some more photos tomorrow so evryone can see. Cheers for the insite.

Yeah i looked at the photos of the gx's and its definately one. Its still got the original exhaust manifold but not the filter box. It looks like a nice motor, going by previous forums on the net that I found of this ute, the motor has had a freshen up about 4 years ago. Ha an a15 sounds nice but I'll see how this motor goes for now. Was thinking about fitting my a12 from my morris minor, its got a massive cam in it, been told its over .300 and has double valve springs and alot shaven off the head. It almost idles like a 12a bp rotor ha ha

Hey is there anyone out there that would be able to tell me if my front apron is actually a 1200 one? I've been looking at a few photos of 1000's and mine is different. I have to re weld this one or buy a better one cause the tools tryed to cut out a spot for an intercoller.

yea looks KB10 to me...

Hi mikey85,

 

Otomoto is not far from where i am. I drop past there just to have a look every now and again. They allways have cool stuff, if you are going to buy some thing from them and need some one to have a look befor you hand over the cash let me know.

 

Nice ute btw.