1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Look, I made a thing!





This is the valve cover from a 1979 Datsun 280zx. Kind of an impromptu art project, per say. I owe Vicente a birthday gift and his dream car are the 70’s era Nissan/Datsun 200 series cars.



I found one on the way out from the junkyard and I swiped the valve cover, the center gauges, and the VIN tag off the B pillar.





The original quartz movement in the stock clock was dead. No point in saving it, too expensive to have it rebuilt and I’d have to plug it into the wall. So I bought an AA Quartz movement from Amazon and stole the clock face from the dead factory clock. I drilled a bigger hole in the face so the shaft would fit through.

I sandblasted the cover, then painted it in Datsun Orange, seen below. Sanded the letters and stripes down and put clear over it.



I stuck the VIN tag on it for shits and giggles.

 

Yeah that would be nice. But you just cant expect that level of care in a factory setting where the bulk of the employees likely dont even posses a high school diploma. Us maintenance guys do what we can to simplify the machine operators job and keep production running.

 

Meh

 

Imagine being the poor bloodhound that has to sniff it.

 

You are such a buzzkill

 

Yup

 

How has no one else liked this

 

Dan killed the mood

I've been working on that all day haha

 

Damn, Business majors get free time?

 

Haven't started school yet haha

 

WTF

 

Well I approve

That's something a nostalgic collector would pay $199 for on Etsy.

 

I started break 5 days before Christmas. I start Monday.

 

Jesus, when does the semester end?

 

I’d charge $500

 

Mid-May. I have the same amount of time as other colleges, it's just my break starts late and ends late.

 

Ikr, Im sitting here doing physics homework. 3 weeks in almost.

 

I'll be done before May 1st, I think I'd prefer my schools schedule.... don't start again until the 31st of August.

I don't think I get the pleasure of summer classes again either.

 

what Physics? The first one or?

 

Its called mechanical physics. Specific for my degree. I think its the easiest physics.