Here it is. I may update this but usually I'm pretty horrible about doing so. I got it for an ok price although once I got it home I wished I would have left it there. The "no rust" actually meant none that you can see but "lots of bondo". Probably just get it running and not wash it so it doesn't show to badly...
Is it okay if I like it anyway?
Woody wrote: Is it okay if I like it anyway?
Believe me, I like it.
So.much.want. 
Congrats on the purchase.
What kind of wheels are those?
Carroll Shelby Wheel Co
I think I've heard of that guy...
chandlerGTi wrote:Woody wrote: Is it okay if I like it anyway?Believe me, I like it.
really like it man
Hey, it's a 2000 with teardrop side markers. What's not to like?
Oh no! The hood already rusted away...
All kidding aside, nice roadster...
Is the Cushman supposed to distract us from the rusty Datsun? :)
Seriously, the roadster looks sweet. Nice score!
Winston wrote: Is the Cushman supposed to distract us from the rusty Datsun? :) Seriously, the roadster looks sweet. Nice score!
It is strategically placed to minimize the obvious bubbles in the quarters. I've been soaking it with mmo going to try to turn the U20 over tomorrow. It did come with receipts for $5500 in parts and labor for an engine rebuild in 1999 which included nearly every part new. Fifteen years of sitting after an engine rebuild may be worse than what the original situation was.
Watching this with interest, i've got a 1600 roadster in the garage. Mine's bout ate up with rust too
When I was shopping for a 240Z in 1990 they all had heads in the trunk (head gasket) and Fred Flintstone floors. So I bought a 1600 because they had a frame and were in better shape.
Unfortunately the body parts are not made for the roadsters and are like gold. I had a guy drive from Toronto to Chicago to buy my mint condition rear quarters I was selling in 2008. (He picked up his new girlfriend in Windsor and had a party weekend in Chicago)
I've just been letting the mmo sit in the cylinders; it is froze up tight. I may pull the pan tomorrow(if doable from the bottom, otherwise engine/trans comes out) and see if it's something obvious. Poor little guy.
At least you don't have to try very hard to find storage space for the little guy, just open the hatch of the 5 and put down the rear seats.
Fingers crossed you can get its poor engine to turn over again.
Goodish news, the two projects in front of this one appear to have been traded for one nice car so this will be up next...
Ok, engine will come out at some point but I've been looking at options for a drop in replacement and found the Z24 may actually bolt right in; it isn't a great engine with 103hp and 137tq but if it bolts up and can run with minimal bodging I can get the suspension sorted on a running car and take my time with the U20. I can't find anyone swapping a z24 into anything though so it may be interesting.
Love the car and the scooter. When I was born my dad had a scooter like that. As soon as I could walk I was climbing on it. When I was 5 I could kick the engine over by standing on the starter and sort of jumping up coming down stiff legged. Then the scooter disappeared . . . .
That's a '47; my wife's grandfather bought it in '49 in San Diego to ride from their ranch to school. I have all the documentation and he had it restored to that state just as he remembered it in 1995. He left it to me in his will, I'm usually a sell this to buy that kind of person with motorized stuff but that is something that will stay in the family for ever. Not to mention it's pretty fun to ride.
Hmm, ok. I spent four hours in junkyards on Saturday measuring different engines and that looked like the best fit.
How unfortunate... Can you use a drill to drive the oil pump to build oil pressure? I am not sure how these are put together...
What's wrong with the orignal engine?
Unless the wear on the hard items (crank/block) are so bad that you can't rebuild it, it's not a hard engine to rebuild.
And stout- the one we had drove quite well, and it was the very first engine I ever worked on.
Not actually sure, it is locked up and had just been rebuilt. I'm expecting everything to be rusted together since it was never used after the rebuild.
In reply to chandlerGTi:
ah...
Well, here's hoping that it's just the rings stuck in the bores, so a little penetrant will free it. then a quick hone + new rings, and you are all set.
Hope 
(one engine I never could really understand why it didn't find it's way into a lot of other cars... say the 510, for instance)
Are you just using a breaker bar to try and turn? Ive had goog luck with a prybar on the flywheel teeth to get flatheads unstuck after soaking with mmo.
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