I also had been driving a beat up automatic 240SX and the transmission had failed on it. Rather than fix that car, since it was already not in good shape, I decided to put together a new 240SX street car.
I had this chassis which was fairly straight, but it had no engine and had a sunroof. I'm tall, so sunroofs are no good.
We also had another chassis that we had picked up to make our next race car out of.. but it had a bent/separated frame, so it was sitting there doing nothing. So I stole a piece of it's roof:
Then I cut the sunroof out out:
I tacked the new piece on, using my tape/measurements as a reference:
I also welded in the factory bracing so it would work like factory:
I smoothed up the welds:
Then it was time for filler..
.. and some primer:
Then fast forward a bunch more hours later.. and some black paint is laid down:
A little prettying up of the engine:
And with the car all together and some Hyundai red paint:
I put in manual belts, bluetooth stereo with mic, Bose stereo system out of a Maxima, etc.. a fairly comfortable street car.
