David,
I'm sorry to hear that your father has passed away. Dave was a lively
contributor to the Datsun Roadster list.
You can ship you car from Hawaii directly to the Port of Oakland via Matson
Shipping. Full details can be found at:
http://matson.com/matnav/services/hawaii.html
Actually, an ex-nissan Datsun Roadster racer, Elroy Goto, works (or at least
he did a few years ago) at Matson.
In the Bay Area, there are several shops which can help you with the roadster.
You may wish to check out Datsun Sports:
http://datsunsports.com/
Best of Luck.
Dan Zubkoff
Houston, TX
--- On Sun, 3/1/09, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Subject: [Roadsters] Advice requested...
To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 6:10 PM
Hi,
I've recently inherited a 1968 Datsun 1600 from my father who recently
passed away (some of you may have interacted with him, he posted on this
mailing
list as konadave1@hawaii.rr.com). The car is in reasonably good shape,
although
it has suffered a bit because my dad's health prior to his death precluded
him driving it for a couple of years. It is drivable but has a few known
problems, e.g., the horn and windshield wipers don't work and both the front
left and rear right brakes are sticking. As far as I can tell, aside from a
few
bubbles, there isn't a lot of rust (which is surprising given it is located
in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii) and runs, albeit a bit rough. I took it to a garage
in
Kona, but they didn't have the expertise to do anything other than the
inspection I needed to get the title changed and re-registered
("Carburetors? Haven't seen those in a while.").
Due to time limitatinos as a result of my job and the lack of a garage (and
frankly, a lack of talent working on cars), I am not in a good position to
fix
the various issues at this point in time. I live in the San Francisco bay
area
and I am thinking about shipping it to California from Hawaii, but don't
really know where to start about getting it worked on. My dad always spoke
highly of this list, so I'd appreciate any suggestions the assembled experts
here might offer on what I should do with it.
To be clear, I have no interest in selling the car. Ideally, I'd like to
get it into mint condition to honor my dad, however I haven't the slightest
idea how much something like that would cost...
Thanks for any suggestions you can provide.
Thanks,
David R(andolph) Conrad
'68 Datsun 1600
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