Just going thru documentation for #15721 and thought I'd post a pic of the original Warranty Service card! I have the service booklet( all service intervals filled out!) and the original owners manual:cool:. Looks like Robert Allen of Poway CA was the original owner. I think the 2nd owner was Ernest W Taylor of San Diego, I have a pile of receipts from a San Diego Datsun dealer as well as Rising Sun Datsun in his name. I believe I am 4th owner, and the car has 83xxx original miles, but can't prove it! Any suggestions on how to track down these 2 owners?

I have mine too I just wish I had the window sticker. Make sure you keep these on some of the older cars these go as collector items, and to have it with the original car can add value at resale. Even at Barret Jackson they will point out if the car has this or not.

I've got my Warranty Book for my '71, but somewhere over the years I seem to have lost the card. In thumbing through the pages, I see that I got my 9,000 mile service at 7,598 on 8/16/72 and never took the car to a Datsun/Nissan dealer since. I'm probably overdue

Dennis

I have two carbon copy receipts where they used the card, and the original owners credit card, so I won't post it.

My 72 basket case came with a paper trail from the original owner until it was parked in 1987. It has to be about 100 pages of stuff, plus manuals and other neat stuff from the original sale. I need to find a ring binder with plastic sleeves so I can display it all. I also got to speak with the original owner's husband at length on the phone. I took notes, and am in the process of writing a short story about the history of the car that will also detail what I have done with it.

Edited October 8, 201014 yr by cygnusx1

Dave, you consider your red sweet 240 with no rust a basket case? You got any baskets you wanna throw my way?

Mike

I also have retained that original manual and warranty service booklet and registration card.

Dave, you consider your red sweet 240 with no rust a basket case? You got any baskets you wanna throw my way?

Mike

Well, it was very oxidized, weathered, worn, and dirty. It arrived in ripped, scrambled, boxes of random greasy parts, with rusty steel wheels, no engine, no carpets, ripped seats, and a barren engine bay. The chassis was pretty straight and rust free, the dash, glass, and weather stripping, were near perfect, and I was told that I was getting all the parts I would need to put it back together, which is why I bought it. It was about as "basket case" as I ever want a car project to begin with. I can't do "real" body work or welding/cutting, so this was right up my alley.

Edited October 9, 201014 yr by cygnusx1

Oh.

Well, it looks great.