New Forum Member wanted to say Hi

[dallasca]

Just found your forums this evening and wanted to say hello to everyone. I have been a long time Datsun fanatic since I could drive. I’ve had alot of 620s, even a 720 as well as a few 240s and 260 z cars. But my favorite truck has to be the 620 that’s the reason I’ve only had 1 720 series. I lucked out on how I came a cross this truck. About 3 months ago we decided to move to Tx cause my wife was accepted to school there. So I had to find a truck. The truck I found was a 94 f250 with a 460 and a 5 speed for $1500 eww can you say 10 mpg!! well I was on my way to pick it up and I ran across an old 620 with a for sale sign sitting in a guys front yard, so I stopped and looked at it. It is so truly ugly but then again I don’t know how many old 620s start off beautiful. And for $500 I thought it was a pretty good deal. So I bought it and wow was my wife upset with me. But in my mind the truck was perfect way better fuel economy (I’m hopping for around 26 I had a 73 way back when with a L16 and the same transmission and got almost 30) a L20b with a DGV, a reverse pattern 5 speed and front disks. Not to mention it has a flat bed on it. The longer I drove it home the more I liked it. However I don’t think other drivers felt as I did judging from the looks I was getting, or it could have been that I was cruising rite along with traffic at 75mph, but at least I knew she has character. Anyways I'm sorry to ramble on about my truck but I am excited to be able to share my journey on building this truck as did Iphlebmaster which I really enjoyed (Thank you) Which is some thing I could not do before due to the lack of inter-net back then. So I hope you all enjoy watching this truck transform as much I will. Oh and the truck is growing on my wife cause she has let me move back into the house

This is the day we got her home

Poor truck I couldnt believe the wiring job in her

Like the bumper? I though I may need a red flag it stuck out so far!! I need to find a new one.


Modified by dallasca at 11:44 PM 4/20/2009

[dallasca]

Okay I found an old bumper off a toyota. So now I just need to grind on it and save what I can to reuse when I rebuild it for the Dat. Can you Tell what steal I reused? I only had to buy one piece of prefabed steal for $7. Thats all I spent on this bumper and 4 hours to build it.

Old Bumper Before I started the tear down

Finished bumper minus a mounting plate for the licence plate light, Chain tie down, and some paint

I welded a 1X1 tube for added clearance and also it gave me a nice large area to weld the reciever tube from the bumper to the spare tire tube. Adding extra streinght I hope. The notches I cut out of the tail light mounts are so I can access the drive unit so I can still drop the spare tire.

The test fit. Now I just need to finish it up.


Modified by dallasca at 11:43 PM 4/21/2009

[phlebmaster]

Welcome to the forum! Nice flatbed.

[n.hager]

If you ever drive that ugly thing down near Smithville, come park it next to mine, yours will look like the prom queen!

[dallasca]

There is no way that yours could be uglier than this one was when I got it. But it seems no matter how bad they look it always seems the more you like them.

[dallasca]

Well here it is June 8th 2009 and we leave on the 12th. So here are some of the updated pictures of the 620 very close to being finished minus a paint job once the body work is finished.

Driver side ready to go

Driver side stake panel

rear view of the passenger side stake panel.

Shows how I tied in the old head ache rack into the new stake sides.

The finished bumper complete with lic plate lite and chain tie down point.Wasnt even thinkin about the face!!
Modified by dallasca at 7:53 PM 6/8/2009