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Phil Beitler's 521 pickup

My 7th Datsun....a 1971 521 pick up.
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t's essentially stock for now. I bought it last December from the original owner. It came complete and unmolested but, it barely ran. But after renewing the extremely rusty gas tank, replacing the fuel lines, rebuilding the fishbowl Hitachi carb, lunching the smog crap, rebuilding the Flintstone braking system, and bending some new exhaust tubeage (no muffler, just a resonator....it sounds kinda cool), she runs just fine for now. With the little L16, it's not the quickest thing on the street, but it still gets allot of second looks. Dropping it a few inches gave it the right stance for parking lot profiling.
Now if I could only find a disk brake set up to fit these spindles.......gawd I hate kingpins!