#datsun b210

[kristivadiva]

Take one Datsun B210,add horrible body kit and Voila the 210ZX!

[11oh1]

🇩🇴✨.

[florist-ranger]

[hemmingsmotornews]

California blue plate 1976 Datsun B210 for sale on Hemmings.com.

[seat-safety-switch]

Repairing rust properly is hard. I always go into it thinking that once the job is done, it will be a forever car, rescued by my deft hand from the otherwise inescapable force of entropy. Then I get it done, look at the wavy Bondo work and the shitty paint job, and immediately want to get rid of it.

This had been on my mind recently because I discovered a hole in the rear quarter panel of my Bitter SC that I could shove my entire fist through. Now, you’d think that’s the least of my problems between the bunker-fuel-burning Soviet cruise ship engine up front and the hand-woven burlap tires that it rolls around on because I can’t afford slicks in the right size. There’s that anxiety over perfection again. This car deserves a good rust repair, and not my normal half-assed work. I might even have to do it indoors.

I was so distracted while thinking about it that I accidentally ran over a bicyclist. Turns out that was one of the local Buddhist priests, popping out to the store for some fresh bread. Even while bleeding out slowly under the front subframe of my Datsun B210, he could tell something was weighing heavily upon me. I told him about my crisis, and that I could no longer make something permanent in the face of the ravages of time. He closed his eyes peacefully, and then muttered something about all life being imperfect. That’s all that I needed to hear, and as I was Thermiting the VINs off the frame and pulling the license plate, I began to formulate a strategy.

Rather than struggle to fix things I cannot, I made the bravest decision you can in the face of our limited time upon this Earth. I just learned to live with the rust on the Bitter. Sure, eventually the rust will claim it, but that’s decades off. Chances are a rogue shopping cart or earthquake will get it first. And even after I’m sick of it, some rich dude with no clue will just pay a real professional to do all the work. So it will be perfect eventually, and I don’t have to do anything about it. Now that’s my kind of spirituality.

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[clatterbane]

(via Seattle’s Classics: 1976 Datsun B210)

Just like my $500 2nd car mentioned earlier–diseased urine factory paint job with the finish long gone and all! Except this one is way less banged up around the front end than mine was when I got it ca. 1992. (A large part of why I got it so cheap. Had to replace the front bumper myself.)

Also minus the neon green dual windshield wipers I added, because you may as well go full goblin style with a machine like this! The wipers were actually bought to match a Halloween goblin bucket mascot for trash 🤗

Surprised I found any photos of those, tbh. Mine was named Kevin, as part of some joke I don’t even remember now. But, shame Kevin isn’t still around too. He was a good mascot.

Not the most attractive vehicle ever–or fastest, with the shitty automatic transmission gearing on that one–but I do kinda miss it. It did keep going until my dad managed to kill it around 2005.

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