Environmental Controls "Barn Find"

[260zCaliCar]

So I started this project about a month ago to replace my heater core (which broke about 20 years ago). In the process I realized that the fresh air vent wasn't working, so i pulled out the controls to see what was up. Sure enough, one of the pins had come out (see pic #1). the hole that it goes in looks okay in the picture, but was actually broken, so I did the best I could to JB Weld it all back together and it actually worked perfectly. Then put it all back together. Done... Just out of curiosity, I went to nisssanparts.cc and looked up the part number for the controls.

They had the part with a price, so I figured "why not" and bought it. I got a call from them last week telling me they couldn't believe what showed up, so I told them to go ahead and open it up... they were actually excited. I took some pictures to show you all what arrived today. Even the newspaper they used for packing was from 1974.

The true definition of "NOS"

[zbane]

That's just cool. Or hot.

[geezer]

The true definition of "NOS"

Also, none of the shelf wear sometimes associated with "NOS". Kind of like opening up a minature time capsule. Congrats!

[Mikes Z car]

That is great! Wonder what else they have hiding on a shelf somewhere?

Mike

[260zCaliCar]

That is great! Wonder what else they have hiding on a shelf somewhere?

Mike

That's sort of why I posted this...

With all the normal wear parts that are NLA, who would have ever thought something like this could be purchased. Makes me want to grab part numbers for all kinds of things that tend not to break and try ordering them.

BTW, this part was only $51. The brand new faceplate alone could probably fetch that much on ebay, since I've never seen one of those for sale before... Hey, maybe I should order 10 more of these things before I post this! LOL