LS1. LS1. LS1. LS1.

Excellent article. I'm so happy you got your Eleanor. Makes me itch to get mine. IMHO, you need to do with her exactly as 'neerd said. Keep her period correct. Hell, I don't think I'd even go as far as new paint. I'd fix any little rust spots and polish up whatcha got. I'm a huge proponent of original paint/patina. I'd make her interior 100% classy starting with a weld in of new floors, carpet, headliner (does she have headliner? No idea) … all those things that make her swank to cruise around in. New gummies, a few stickers, obviously electrical and engine work with juuust enough engine mods to make her compete for at least Bronze on the interstates, and off you go. Can't wait to see more about her as this story unfolds. SO cool.

Congratulations! May your experience about meeting your idols not end like Mr. May's Countach encounter.

So is it still with the original seller? I hope you don't end up paying a premium for waiting.
It reminds me of my search for a C3 Corvette. In 1990, at 17, I started looking for a C3 Corvette. The first one that I looked at was a nice 1977, only about 60k miles, and in good shape, and the price was right. (Remember this car was only 13 years old at the time, so like looking for a 1997 C5 today), it was white with a red interior. It was the first one I looked at and had nothing to compare it to. I decided to wait, looked for a couple of more weeks and couldn't find anything better. Called the guy back, the car had been sold! I looked at another dozen or so cars over the next 4-5 months and couldn't find another where price and condition met as good as the white 77, not anything even close. THEN, I found a white 77 with red interior on one of these shady "Corvette dealer" lots. It was the same car! The price was $1000 higher, but it was still the best deal around. I got it. Still have it sitting in the basement awaiting a new engine/restoration after I drove it into the ground in about 6 years.

Get it running, patched up so it is generally working….safely. Then drive, drive and drive and drive some more. Then after you've driven the hell out of it fix everything new that is wrong and everything else that it needs. Then drive it some more.

OK this is a 610 wagon, but it's similar and think it looks GREAT. This car is currently my wallpaper and I have a slight case of Datsun fever that comes about every few months. Personally i'd go for some old school watanabes and lower it just a hair, but wouldn't slam it like this 610. Do w/e u will with the 510 though and good luck!
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I live in Maine, and I'm a youngin', so I doubt I've ever seen a 510, regardless a wagon, in the flesh. But after all the 510s I've seen online, I have to say, keeping this beautiful creature stock as possible is what I'd do. Well, maybe not quite. A nice set of Watanabes, some grippy tires and stronger brakes, and maybe a few tweaks to the stock engine… and drive it all over the place.

Stock, Resto-mod, fully custom…it doesn't matter what you do so long as you enjoy it.

I feel I should know this, or missed it in somewhere, but where are you located, for those of us that happen to have the means to help with transportation? I've got a truck, I'm in the Seattle area, and can give a hand transporting if you're anywhere close.

Way to go Mr. Schmo! Looking forward to the progress reports.

Out here in Cali, nearly every 510 has had a modern ultra-slick drivetrain installed to the point that they are done. to. death. and major yawners. The cars people now crowd around at gatherings (after gawking at shiney newcomers) are the rare originals that flew under the radar for 35+ years.
I'd clean and detail the snot out of what is there and preserve that honest "I'm old and badass" vibe your car has. Maybe some old school SSS Hitachis… some fuzzy dice…
Congrats! And enjoy your Datto!

Though it?s barely two months aged, it is time to declare a ideal scene of Summer 2010. It certainly comes from 1 of the year?s best films (although a minimum of three Rotten Tomatoes registered critics disagree with that assessment) and while it may perhaps appear to rapidly to recommend it, there?s no doubting handful of will match it appear July and/or August. Instead of offering an in-depth review of Toy Account 3 (suffice it to say – it is great!) let?s instead concentrate over a seminal sequence from the stellar Pixar trequel, a moment in time that will have many in tears and have far more than a handful of covering their faces in fear. We’re talking, needless to say, about the SPOILER ALERT incinerator showdown, a moment which finds Buzz, Woody, along with the gang relying about the incorrect plaything to aid within their escape, a massive machine hurtling them ever closer to their doom, and a single moment in time of resolve that stands as 1 of the most emotional and heartfelt finales actually from the background of film – live action or animated. Primary, a little plot perspective. Toy Account 3 begins several years following the initial sequel. Andy is now a 17 year old college bound teen, and his selection of playthings are feeling the sting of neglect and doable disposal. Pushed to complete some thing with the trinkets remaining, Andy decides to put them inside the attic. Rather, his bag is mistaken for trash, and our plastic heroes stay clear of the landfill by hiding out in a different box intended for any nearby daycare. There, they find out a surreal situational pecking order. Leader toy Lotso Hugs the Bear (Ned Beatty) runs the location like a prison, placing the new ?recruits? from the Caterpillar Room along with the rambunctious, destructive toddlers. Should you survive, and aren?t eventually thrown out, you may well get to live out your days from the serene enjoyable in the older kids? Butterfly region. Desperate to break out, our familiar pals escape via the only offered way out – the garbage chute. Ahead of lengthy, they find themselves in the quite exact same dangerous dilemma they were hoping to stay clear of inside the primary place. cover art work Toy Story 3 Director: Lee Unkrich Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, Michael Keaton, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Estelle Harris (Disney/Pixar; US theatrical: 18 Jun 2010 (General release); UK theatrical: 18 Jun 2010 (General launch); 2010) Trailer Official Site So we appear to our significant SPOILER warning. Again, as opposed to reviewing the film itself, which demands the acknowledged repetition of sentiments expressed endlessly above the final few times, we will concentrate on just one sequence?again, call it the ?incinerator stand-off??and use it being a means of explaining Pixar?s enduring power inside of the artform. With their record presently at 11 – 0, the organization has however to produce a certified bomb and, for quite a few, have only produced masterpieces (each minor and important).
Inside case from the last act realization that they might end up within a fiery inferno, the action on the titular toys is so moving, so extremely easy that it shows how effective much less may be at expressing probably the most important of emotions. As with many action sequences, the final minute getaway seems imminent. Even though Woody flails about manically, wanting to uncover the feasible exit, the rest of his companions are much less certain. Ultimately, they recognize the hopelessness of their trigger and commit an act so selfless, so instinctual of what we?ve felt for these characters, that may be stops your heart beat, if only for a instant. They start to maintain hands. Initial Buzz and Jessie (if only accidentally), then Bullseye the horse along with the Potato Heads. Ultimately, faces serene if nevertheless slightly afraid, they look to their ersatz leader, Woody, for your last link in their chain of fate. Seeing their reaction, their brave calm and sense of sacrifice, the cowboy that commenced the entire storyline two decades ahead of grabs their mold formed hands, and waits? It?s a stunning sequence, an additional stellar example of the boundaries Pixar keeps pushing. Final year, the brilliant Up offered a silent ten moment montage which followed the romantic life and eventual finish of lead misanthrope Carl Fredricksen?s fairytale marriage to childhood sweetheart Ellie. It represented a bold, broad stroke, a security in storytelling (and violation of kid vid tone) that only an amazingly talented entity could pull off. It was the same with Wall-E, exactly where the opening on the film painted a dark, dismal portrait of the planet (Earth) literally choking on its personal filth. Ever since Cars, when the firm was criticized for being too cartoony and cloying, it appears that John Lasseter and also the gang have made a conscious selection to consist of as a lot dramatic material as they are able to, realizing that a solid narrative can tolerate such trepidation. Toy Story three is possibly the pinnacle of this believed procedure. The entire movie is usually a really enjoy letter to the travails of youth, a literal envisioning of the classic Bible line about ?putting away childish things? as one matures. Andy?s dilemma isn’t so very much one particular of nostalgia as temporal causation. As he ages, his toys continue to be forever locked in his life on the past. The characters recognize this above and above once more, arguing against what they see because inevitable providence for their kind?the dump, or in this situation, the bowels of a blazing furnace. That right after all of the bickering, back stabbing and bratling abuse, they pick to go out like heroes could be the kind of emotional epiphany the series has been recognized for?like Jessie?s Part 2 lament taken to its logical ends. Naturally, this definitely isn?t the end for your beloved playthings. SPOILER warning again?they get out with the jam only to face the last decision: how to endure a existence in Andy?s attic, waiting for your off opportunity that, someday, their former owner may have children of his own and will seek out these symbols of his formative years for their amusement. That this gets resolved inside a way that is both wholly satisfying yet tinged with sadness once more argues for what Pixar does better than all others. In a genre that keeps demanding a larger degree of efficiency every single time, that doesn?t desire to rest on its laurels so significantly as reinvent them in a way that makes far more and more funds, the efforts of a organization more concerned with creativity than the bottom line is beyond refreshing. Although some thing may surpass it, the incinerator sequence is a work of art work all its very own. The outcomes is as potent as something you?ll see all year?as is Toy Adventure three.