This Classic Car Is Hiding All Sorts of DAMAGE! - Prepping The Datsun For Primer! Restoration Pt 16

In this video we repair all the little sections which needed replacing and welding on the disastrous Datsun 260z classic. We also uncover a mess underneath the lead loaded roof joint!
In the next video we get to PRIME!
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[@danielcox1602]

A credit to you mate.. Not many realise how much work is undertaken. when some cars come from so far gone.. Just the man hours involved in bringing them back to life.. Patience and love.. It's my living too and I wouldn't change a thing. I hope the underside is in better shape. Good on ya.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Thanks Daniel! we like to show the DIY techniques to repairing something like this:) we love it though :) hopefully the underside is ok, should be getting a look at the underbody properly soon! :)

[@markfoster7564]

What a bucket of rust! 😵‍💫 props to you guys for taking this disaster on!

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

It is! It will look brand new once done :) thank you! New video is already uploaded ready!

[@kevinchamberlain7928]

Two options for powdery void rust: 1 Vacuum it out. 2 Use compressed air to fire the rust seeds into distant, unreachable voids where they will assuredly work their evil, which will result in more business generated. Always ignore option 1.

[@GT380man]

There speaks the voice of much, hard-won experience 😊

[@guywilson187]

Crikey. It might be less of a challenge to simply create a new bodyshell from scratch 🤭

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Your probably right! Haha

[@DustyMacsGarage]

This comment is how I was feeling with the 240z Im building on my channel!!

[@teadoggcreations2336]

Great video guys. Lovin the humour, enjoying the start of your “ how to “ videos to. Keep on keepin on! 👍

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Thank you! We try and get some humour in there. Alot of it is accidental 🤣😁

[@paulluggar5964]

Nice work 'Captain Patch' of the good ship YCR. 👍

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Captain patch ready for service!

[@colinritchie1757]

Brilliant video guys as ever your, perfect way to start a lazy sunday!

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Thank you very much! We appreciate the kind feedback! Enjoy your Sunday!

[@russellwade7810]

Add like to meet the person who put all the filler on that car i reckon their wasted working on cars they should of been a plasterer 🤣

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Haha! They would do well with that! :)

[@chrishill9199]

Really enjoy your work on the Datsun. I taught myself to fabricate and weld new metal to restore an old Vauxhall Viva that was our family car in 70’s, unfortunately without the luxury of a cutting of a bending machine like yourself . I was a complete amateur at the start but I was interested to see you work in exactly the same way I taught myself. Nice work, well done, on a car that has taken repairing rust and rot to a different level !Hope the customer pays up for your incredible work

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Thank you so much Chris, well done on the repairs! We enjoy using the hand fab techniques :) Also this car is one of ours :)

[@MarkieC1990]

Just found your channel, some proper nice cars you’re working on, keep up the great work lads, nice to watch some locals restoring cars for a change too!

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Thank you :) we have a couple of cars on the cards which nobody knows about. They are coming soon! :) thank you Mark

[@MarkieC1990]

@@yorkshirecarrestoration good to see an NC MX5 getting some love 😃

[@michaeljordan6568]

Excellent job and great video. This is of great help for DIY at home. If it’s not to much to ask. Where can I get that small magnetic light when your welding it seems to work fantastic. Thank you

[@SuperWayneyb]

One day you might swat that fly at the beginning of each video 🤘😎🤘😂😂😂😂😂😂😂great looking job lads 👍👍

[@speedtripper]

The lead is standard. You’ll find it in the same place on the other side. That area is a weakness and the 240s often develop a hairline crack there. Your welded in panel has probably fixed that issue. Good job.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Yep we were thinking that. Thank you :) we will probably do the same on the other side to also remediate the issue. Thanks again

[@davidtarrant7159]

Guess what happend when you said Alexa... pause? You got my alexa to pause your video I was watching. Lol. Great video.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Haha 🤣🤣🤣😅😇 i forgot it may have done that! 😇 my bad :) funny though :)

[@user-bo7cz3zj9l]

Крутая некруха конечно. Тот случай когда кузов держался на краске. Удачи в восстановлении. 👍

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Спасибо большое, мы ценим это

[@CALIFASgarcia]

Great shop that looks really good 👍💯🔥

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Thank you it is a great place to work :)

[@01ripkirby]

No rust on the window glass - bonus!

[@tonychamberlain8057]

What a job !!

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Thank you very much Tony!

[@karenmurray3098]

i admire your dedication !!! it seems the more you gring the more holes you find ?

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Haha thank you! It definitely seems that way!

[@JohnnieBravo1]

I need one of those Yorkshire Car Restoration shirts, to go with my Ramsden Racing (UK sidecar racing team, and as we share the same last name, and my forefathers came from same regions in the UK, high likelihood we are related) shirt. Everybody here in Alabama always ask me where I get these cool shirts.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

We can get you one no problem :) thank you! We are just trying to get our website up and running. Should be available soon! Nice story about the Ramsden Racing! Thank you!

[@stevemcilroy9518]

Good solid repair

[@joedunn7434]

7:30 you should use a spray adhesive like headliner glue to hold down your stencil. Then you won’t have to worry about tracing it out on the panel.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Good idea :)

[@GT380man]

Or those small magnets (assuming there’s any steel to stick them to!)?

[@aarondwyer3746]

What a mammoth undertaking

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

It really is!!

[@alanbower9296]

GREAT video enjoyed lot of work ahead of you's 🚗👏👍

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Thank you very much. We appreciate the kind feedback. Alot of work indeed. But we already have the next video filmed and edited ready!

[@alanbower9296]

@@yorkshirecarrestoration THANK YOU LOOKING FORWARD SEEING 👏❤

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

We appreciate it Alan!

[@amxen1]

My Alexa said sorry i dont know what you want to do haha

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Haha! I forgot about the viewers Alexa when I said it :)

[@Tommy_Poole]

The song you play about “running away”. I reckon you guys wrote that after you saw just how much rust there was on the bodywork of that Datsun 260. They were great cars in their day but certainly knew how to rust.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Ha! how did you know :p. And yes! they were experts in the rust catagory!

[@GT380man]

I had exactly the same thought…..😊 “Why don’t we run way, far away….” 🎼🎸🎤🎧

[@neilbarnes3557]

How do you get a Datsun 260Z in a bucket? Wait... Really enjoying this one, guys; great work.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Easy! :D Thank you very much! Much more on its way!

[@wayne9518]

Sweep it up off the floor. Put in bucket.

[@drumtochtyglen]

The twin wall panels on 260z cause a lot of extra work. It makes the MX5 look like an easier job. Yet you have the other side, the boot and windscreen area to do as well as the internals and floor. This is one long project, good luck with it!

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Yeo you are correct! We do still have alot to do, but we are getting through it nicely. Next video is already filmed, edited and scheduled to be released in 2 weeks! Big transformation! :) thanks!

[@teekay_1]

Obviously the entire inner shell of the roof panel has surface rust. Will you pull down the interior panels to clean that up? If you don't do anything won't this just rust again in a few years?

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

We need to repair the inner panels so the rusty sections will be don't at the same time :)

[@CarlosMendez-hs8yi]

Looks like leepu from chop shop had his dangerous hands on it

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Filled with filler!

[@frasermetcalfe7032]

There's a part of me that keeps screaming "she's dead allready please stop resussitation". Then the perverse happens and i keep watching.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Haha, hope you are enjoying the build! We will bring her back to life, trust :)

[@ChuckUnderFire]

I keep wondering while I watch you guys work, How do you know when to stop patching/cleaning the metal? I feel like there is a 100% coverage of scabby metal under every layer. Can you fix that? Do you need to? Is it even possible?

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

We try and take out all the rusty stuff and replace it with new. alot of the panels look very rusty but its just surface rust ad the metal is still structurally sound. usually if it cleans up well with a wire wheel and doesnt have any pitting or visible signs of damage, then it is good

[@birdy356]

The snail was faster than this car, that doesn't look promising, but good luck ;-)

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Haha thank you!

[@TorquilBletchleySmythe]

You're a brave bunch of lads. Here in Australia, when they get that bad, it's a trip to the back paddock with a shovel and a .303. What do you think the ratio of Japanese to English steel will be by the end?

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Thank you :) we are getting there though :) and probably 98% English haha

[@nononsenseBennett]

You are a brave man trying to restore the Swiss cheese Datsun. YIKES that metal is so thin and it looks like it has rusted from the inside out. Will you put it back to factory yellow?

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Haha thank you! It certainly is very thin metal indeed! And yes it has rusted from the inside out. We are currently not sure what colour we want it :) we will make sure to pop it in the video when we decide :)

[@gregjarvis1232]

Why didn't you sand blast? or chemically dip it? instead of grinding it all down I know chemically dipping is harsh but you know exactly what you have left to work with!

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

We try to show DIY techniques, but also them methods wouldnt remove the 23 layers of patches :( Thanks though!!!

[@TristanKent]

I see and FD and an FC, anything interesting happening with them?

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

We have 4 many FD's (we have a video in our FD playlist about it) we have the FC which has had a full respray and just needs flat and polishing and we also have an FB which will come onto the chsnnel sometime next year :)

[@DustyMacsGarage]

I subscribed to your channel!!! Good luck with the build. Im building a 240z on my channel for my wife that we bought for $300. It has a ton of challenges!! We shall build them together 😂

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Thanks Dustty, good luck with yours too! It looks like a challenge! Keep on griding and they will both be complete before we know it!

[@DustyMacsGarage]

@@yorkshirecarrestoration thats right bro!!! We can see the light 😂

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Good lad. Keep the good content coming.

[@DustyMacsGarage]

@@yorkshirecarrestoration right on mate!!!!

[@DoktorJeep]

I'm still having bad dreams about that car

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Haha! The amount of filler is crazy, but makes for more of a challenge :) thank you!

[@emilhuniewicz1950]

Cool t-shirts. I can get one?

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Thank you! Yes course we can get one for you. We are currently setting up our website and shop 😀

[@carswithcrackers]

At this point I have to ask, how much of this is for the sake of content vs "because I can" vs "I'm too deep to quit now"? Also, when do you start the S130 in earnest? I have a S130 I'm about to start blowing apart myself.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

None of these car are "because of content" or "because of I'm too deep". This car was purchased before we started the youtube channel and I have restored a lot of cars like this in the 30 years Iv been doing restorations and all of this is no supprise to me and it's very usual and normal when you have a passion as I do for putting back on the road and restoring ca s that nobody else would tackle and if they did most would give up. We do this out of love of classic cars and a passion for restoration including the challenge of doing it with basic tools and low budgets :) so it's out passion we restor these cars 😁👍

[@carswithcrackers]

@@yorkshirecarrestoration that's awesome. I'm a fan of saving lost causes. Love seeing cars ripped apart and put back together.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Haha we are too :) we enjoy taking thr impossible and making it possible :)

[@garycrofts1421]

Someone must REALLY love this Datsun, surely the cars value will never match the resto costs?

[@GT380man]

True. This is a car the lads are tackling for themselves. I occasionally restore old Japanese motorcycles. You can definitely spend way more than the complete bike is worth, but it’s the ownership pleasure is more than compensation.

[@garycrofts1421]

@@GT380man I'll second that. 12 years ago I spent 3k restoring an RG250 it's prob worth that now after all those years. Currently doing a GSX550, I stopped counting at 3k on that....and it'll NEVER be worth what it cost 🤣

[@Timbaland135]

Dont you want to remove the whole rust before welding it? Isnt there a risk that the metal will begin to rust again but then from the inside to the outside?

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

We sprayer rust converter on inside the cavity and also removed as much rust as possible. We can't get to it all as we would have to cut most of the rear quarter roof off. Thanks!

[@GT380man]

In the long run, we are all dead, anyway. It’s a matter of relative longevity. Some projects you can fix so they’ll last longer than you’ve got. Others, not so much.

[@Timbaland135]

@@GT380man wow...thats deep talk 🥲

[@tommcl8548]

👍👊

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Thanks for all the comments Tom :D hope you enjoyed!

[@tomchamberlain4329]

"Architecture racing"

[@jth1987leb]

Fly is down

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Haha thank you :) was hoping no one would notice :D

[@heyhihello8310]

Does the green bird have a name?

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Not yet! You got some ideas? :)

[@heyhihello8310]

@@yorkshirecarrestorationok I’ve taken a week to deliberate and I’m thinking he seems like a “Rocco”. What about you guys lol got any ideas

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Good choice there actually. That may stick :)

[@peterunderdown4374]

Is this a customer's car ,or your own?

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

This is one of ours

[@ringo196]

As soon as the hammerite came out and no prep on the metal I knew this was going to be a shit build

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Hi Mark. As mentioned, the hammerstein was a temporary solution to prevent rust due to the leak in thr roof. We are yet to give it it's primer on the bare metal

[@ringo196]

@@yorkshirecarrestoration that stuff is a proper bastard to do anything with, I made a mistake of using it in smooth before when it 1st came out and you could only spray it using their thinners back then. Best kept for metal gates that stuff 👌

[@ringo196]

@@yorkshirecarrestoration fair play though that filler is soul destroying mate, I did a 180B years ago and it was mint compared to the 240

[@leeverink32]

for a car like this classic going up in value you dont do a very good job on the inner panels. rotted out holes dont even get glosed up. like i said this car needs a chem dip!

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

I'm unsure of the "rotted out holes" you refer to. All holes were repaired and treated with a rust converter.

[@GT380man]

Question: what kind of facility outside of a factory would you find a big enough piece of kit to chemically dip an entire car?

[@HeikoQuant]

The good thing is, once you are done closing everything up, this car is never going to rust again. Ooops let me correct that. The car is never going to stop rusting. Sorry for being an ass, but really...

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

You are right though haha!

[@barryphillips7327]

IF this car had acid dipped to remove the rusty metal VERY LITTLE would have come back IF ANY at all?????? The big problem is how Far do you go with a body as BAD as this before starting to prepare and paint???? What other HIDDEN BAD areas remain UNSEEN???????????

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Probably alot, but we will do our very best to make it as good as possible! Yes you are right, not much would be left lmao

[@paulfarghi]

I can appreciate the effort going into this, however I feel you are "papering over cracks" the amount of rust beneath the body panels shows this shell is scrap. You cannot replace all the subsurface structures because that would mean taking all the exterior panels off...such you have chosen not to. The amount of time and effort being poured into this is going to result in a patched body repair with unknown structural integrity beneath the shiny body panels. Good luck but I believe your wasting your time.... Skill is there though ..but

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Hi Paul, thanks for the comment and feedback. If the roof was not damaged, we would never have seen the inner sub structure in the state it is in. There needs to be a cut off point for a restoration. It is still structurally solid and just has the odd hole and surface rust. If you had a 260z car which was rust free on the outside, chances are it's the same as ours on the inside. Most classics are. Cheers

[@martinplayford6786]

How on earth can a car as bad as this be a profitable proposition. The hours spent must surely cost more than what its worth on completion. If you guys can get caught out like this then god help the rest of us.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

We do this for the love of the cars not the profit :)

[@martinplayford6786]

Thats fantastic so how do you pay the bills?

[@twoeightythreez]

@@martinplayford6786 Im assuming this is what he works on when "he is off the clock" so to say. Maybe he is already independently wealthy and as such can afford to work on passion rather than making money.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

We have full time jobs outside of YCR so that pays the bills, The 260z is a weekend job and our car so the man hours aren't really costing so to speak

[@GT380man]

@@yorkshirecarrestorationIndeed. Some people argue you’re never really off the clock, because you could always have done something profitable with the time. But have you seen what most people do with their spare time? Like scrolling through others comments on a car resto video?

[@bigears4014]

Don't wash this car and keep it dry, or you'll welding again soon

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

It will never drive in the rain :)

[@3DPrintingFreak]

This car needs an acidbath

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

There wouldn't be anything left of it 🤣

[@martinsadler707]

It’s far to far gone. You are plating over compromised structure. Scrap it, it will never be strong.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

We are checking the structure as we go, and it has surface rust but is solid. Its the same with all the other Datsuns in this country, however they have not gone to the lengths to actually see inside the structure

[@adomaschadasevicius4781]

The roof is on rust and you just leeving it... you should take all roof, the rust is more than you see. Please save your money and time, becouse it looks not pro..

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

You will find the same situation on every Datsun in this country. they rot from the inside. However you will never know because they dont cut a section of the roof out...

[@michelszvetecz3243]

franchement ce n'est pas raisonnable de rafistolé cette bagnole elle est trop pourri et devrait aller a la destruction c'est personnellement ce que je ferais chacun sa façon de voir la chose mais un telle rapiéçage ne garanti plus plus la solidité de la structure

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Merci pour le commentaire, la plupart des autres Datsuns sont comme ça sur la structure interne. Nous utilisons toujours de l’acier qui est meilleur que la norme OEM et devrait donc être plus résistant :)

[@hunterburrell5430]

Disliked

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Why disliked?

[@mertfox3488]

This project is a total waste of time. You will never have a solid structure vehicle. Restore a vehicle that can be restored. This Datsun is junk.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

We like a challenge

[@mertfox3488]

It's not the challenge. it's using common sense and basic knowledge of mechanical and structural engineering. This Datsun is not worth the effort of the challenge.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

@@mertfox3488 We are willing to put the effort in to bring this car back from the dead. That is why we enjoy the challenge. Most classics are the same and basically what people do is cover over the rust with steel plate after steel plate and make a real mess. We are being fully transparent with our repairs and showing how to repair something that most wouldn't. If we didn't have the small hole (which grew into a bigger one) then we wouldn't have even known the inner structure was rusty in areas. In that specific area we sprayed rust converter and repaired the hole on the inner structure too. As mentioned, all classics are the same, it's just in most cases the inner frame isn't seen as the roof doesn't require cutting out.