1968 Datsun 2000 Sports Fairlady - Super Sano

Inside, the standard-issue low-back buckets that prang you between the shoulder blades have been given the heave-ho, and were replaced with a set of red leather chairs from a '93 Miata. Beyond that, a smaller-diameter MOMO wheel and shift knob are in place, the center-mounted tach is an Auto Meter piece, and all of the plastic gauge lenses were replaced with glass. The only other change Jason wants to make revolves around the dashboard: rather than the '68-up padded dash, he wants to revert to a '66-style all-metal dash, with toggle switches instead of safety levers, and an instrument cluster full of Stewart-Warner gauges.

This particular Fairlady draws eerie parallels with its erstwhile theatrical namesake: owner Brainard, as Henry Higgins, takes something that was born a certain way, and was then primped up to go beyond the limits of whatever could have been dreamed of at the time. Though it is something entirely new and lovely, at its heart, it is still the same beast-one that, changes or not, it's hard not to fall in love with.

By B.K. Nakadashi

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