Posted a pic of my project Datsun elsewhere, but I’ve also just finished another long term goal of a marine/reef aquarium. Built most everything myself, including the tank itself, and factoring the location and size into a new house build means it’s now a cool feature of the home, and not a “fishtank in the corner”.
And now that’s done, the Datto might get some attention
Lovely. I had a 1600 back in the day, engine was fried so I popped in a 2 litre (Peter) bluebird engine with dual Webers, as was the style of the time.
Pro tip: do not get pulled over doing 120 in a 60 zone on your P plates. You’ll have to sell your Datsun 1600 to pay for enormous fines, lawyers fees and 12 months of bus tickets.
I learnt to drive in that model Datsun, that was 50 years ago. I was a bit disappointed that a Toyota Corolla wasn’t available. When they said it was going to be a Datsun, l pictured it being an anemic Datsun 1000. Then the 1600 rolled up, woohoo. As for my licence, l have had one speeding ticket, ever, and that was on an interstate highway in 1988. Never lost a demerit point. Are points still a thing? Back later with more.
I’ve had it for a while but opened it cause I need a bit of distraction. There’s a lot to be had. My bums already sore.
This one’s about to be retired. I chose between the Batmobile and this, and I’m still not sure if I made the right decision. The Batmobiles been retired. You can find it on line but they’ve doubled in price.
Yeah one of my kids spends every spare cent on it plus always asking for it as a gift, and particularly through covid, we just thought ‘fark if’ let’s not just be miserable while we’re stuck at home.
But we literally are at capacity now. And probably once they get a boy/girl friend it’ll be put in storage.
My brother-in-law’s eldest spent his mid-late teens making stop-motion lego animations and posting them on youtube. Got stacks of views and made himself upwards of $50k out of it. Didn’t seem to do his social life any harm…