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[Vlad]

Specs

Price - $400
Make/Model - nissan gazelle
Year - 1984
Type - notchback/coupe
Colour - White (painting black hopefully sometime in the near future, once its ready for the roads.)
Transmision - 5 Speed Manual
K's - 230,000 (aorund there i cant remember)


Engine - CA20E (will be modifying to a CA18DE/T in the future, not sure if i want it turbo'd or not yet)
Exhaust - Stock, but i have lukey extractors and 2"catbackexhaust waiting to be fitted.
Suspension - Stock, no idea what plan on getting later (sh** with this stuff, WILL NEED YOUR HELP!)
Brakes - Stock, also no idea and im also gonna need your help with what to choose.

Mods - currently only has a nissan sport racing steering wheel, plan on upgrading the suspension
to what most people do, the s13 coilovers, and waever else, will definatly need help with that, umm
extractors and exhaust to be fitted soon, may get a nice clutch and flywheel, once i get myself
a CA18DE/T, engine transplant will be the last thing i do until the car is raodworthy, will need to save
up enough cash for it, etc.. need to get myself a new stereo and rims, also only getting done once the
car is on the roads. anyways, i have quite a few plans for it, and will be updating slowly cause im way
to poor to get stuff done but once the exhaust is in and once i get the engine running ill take some pics,
and also maybe a small video

the car is extremly dirty right now, it was standing outside the previous owners house for a long time
and well, it obviously bcame dirty . its fairly straight except the drivers side quater panel, but i have
one to replace that with, a bit of rust happening around the seals on the front windscreen, doesnt leak,
but will end up leaking if not done up, umm... what else.. i will be its third owner, first owner was an old
lady, than second owner was a midle aged man who nurtured the car, but ended up blowing the piston
rings, than replaced them and had wrong timing done, and it broked, so ill be looking into that and getting
that fixed, yea.. any questions, just ask me. oh the interior is in like excellent condition, apart from the
door handle area and below that, its like crappy-ish on both sides, but its nothing major and carpet is a little
dirty, nothing a a good wash wont fix... would like to find a replacement door trim in blue for both sides
though, anyone got them in brissy, pm me .

Pics -











PS; it has a crappy tow bar that im going to be removing, anyone who lives in brisbane or around here can
pick it up from me for $20 with all wiring and crap... i have no idea if it works though pm me if your
keen on getting it, its gonna go in the bin if no one does want it... our van already has a tow bar and we dont
need another car with one. not to mention i cant picture a gazelle towing anything, lol.

Edited by Vlad, 14 October 2006 - 06:04 PM.

[Shinigami]

nice gazelle Vlad gl with the project, ts eve got the factory sound playing thingy interior is clean too


John

Edited by Shinigami, 14 October 2006 - 06:21 PM.

[Vlad]

lol hes a kid, he doesnt know the correct terminology

yea well, i didnt know it was stiffer! so yea cool i think *scartches head*

yea my car is definatly sexy with its original dirty painty job, that has real
dirt!! and bird droppins on the rear windscreen, lol.. oh and its tinted so yea
thats good, i dont have to tint it myself now and it feels awsome to be a
coupe owner damn hatchs bug me out now, lol... there still cool!

[gerryb]

Yeah I've got a brand new in box LHS electric type door trim ring me on 0409642421 if your serious

Does a coupe make you stiffer, my wife might make me buy one then

Edited by gerryb, 14 October 2006 - 09:41 PM.

[Umai Naa!!]

They have nasil spray for that, y'know, Gerry

[Vlad]

Yeah I've got a brand new in box LHS electric type door trim ring me on 0409642421 if your serious

Does a coupe make you stiffer, my wife might make me buy one then

is your blue though? or was it that creme colour? cause i remember you told me you had the creme one

and LMAO at umai!

[gerryb]

Yeah I told her that you can't get any harder than a rock but she doesn't believe me , back to topic forums degenerating a bit, (I'm already a degenrate in several asian countires but there's still hope for you young blokes)

Yeah Vlad this one in the box is a blue one, same colour scheme as that car you have

Edited by gerryb, 14 October 2006 - 10:30 PM.

[Umai Naa!!]

I've got bits and pieces off a blue SGL door, as well.

Don't have the whole trim, wrecker broke it somehow when they removed the door from the car.

[gerryb]

From what I can see the drivers side trim looks not to bad, (hasn't got the usual rotten top etc, looks like someone has recover the top at some stage as you can't see the little chrome plastic strip along the bottom edge of it and there's a srew under the lock button holding it on), carpet trim at the bottom has one or 2 stains you could maybe clean off and you could maybe glue the arm rest down again.

What's the LHS one like?

I only have a LHS one and as I said its new still in the nissan box and plastic wrapping. Its no good to me as its blue and I have 2 new tan/grey door trims on my car.

Edited by gerryb, 15 October 2006 - 12:28 AM.

[A9X]

Wow. Nice buy Vlad.

[Buster]

pfft notches are for suckers....

i like it though, it has heaps of potential.
that stering wheel is rad.


if any one has the creme coloured trim with the electriacl stuff, ill be more then happy taking it of there hands. but postage would probably be a bitch hey.

[Vlad]

thnx A9X, crap thing is its got a blown head gasket from what i was told, and
screwed up timing, which fu**ed it up.

Gerry, well there both in half decent condition, but i honestly dont want to go to
all the trouble of buying glue and sticking down, and i dont exactly want to mess
anything up.. cleaning the carpet would be to much of a problem i know but still,
im lazy... and yes the whole top part is in 100% condition, everything below the
armrest just bugs me, and it kinda smells too, another reason i wanna get new
ones... and yes im am really keen on getting the one you have in a box, how
much were you after?

New Pics (car is actually clean now, and i used a bucket! took ages):

aint it sleepy looking without the grille and the parkers?


mmmm sexy vents!!!


Please note, if you look to the left you will see the nose of a white hatchback
gazelle that has been completly stripped, also note the blue gazelle
notchback/coupe on the road, i hope you enjoyed the tour of my front yard.


heres some of the damage on the lhs door trim, not much but it smells funny
but the car itself smells NEW!


heres a good look at my seats, wow arnt they really clean looking? and no
rips at all, woot!



anyways, enough of the narated images id just like to say, when you work
on your first car, you think differently what your gonna do with your next ones
it teaches you a lot, on my first one i bought rims stereo to early, and wasted
money on all that, rather than getting the thing working a lot sooner! so yea
try and get it running first than get the bling

[FLY PSI]

Im guessing your not keen on parkers or grills

[Vlad]

oh i just took them off cause my cable to open the bonnet isnt connected properly, and i cant be bothered sliding my hand my in the airvent at the bottom and trying to find the thing to open it, so i just took em out for now, ive got good condition parkers and a nice grille set aside so yea nothing to worry about there. so that makes umm... 5 sets of parkers in total 2 sets going to be sent to america for draco and his mate.. 1 perfect set left for myself, 1 on the hatch already and anotehr set that came off the coupe... waiti have 6 sets! some i took off a coupe at a wreckers

[Shinigami]

Looking good vlad, the photo with your front yard in it, do i spot a white silvia in the top right corner??


John

[Vlad]

Looking good vlad, the photo with your front yard in it, do i spot a white silvia in the top right corner??
John

nah i think thats the neighbours magna but theres a black one further up and one of them corolla levins (done up), a blue datto ute (sounds sick, might have an sr20 not sure), umm, theres a fairly decent looking lancer aswell, had a black r33 that was sick! but they moved, oh, and down the road (to the left) is a really nice red s14a, its soooo sexy! im surrounded by sick cars, lol.

[Fury-S12]

diffinatly a nice buy gotta love getting bargains that are straight less work to do

[Mr.CA]

nice pick up mate!!! gotta love those bonnet vents tough as!!!! lol

cheers
mike

[gerryb]

Vald $45 will do, I have a pipe to be alloy welded and that will almost cover it.

Edited by gerryb, 15 October 2006 - 06:02 PM.