These look straight from the 70s but are a modern wheel supplied by Rota Wheels UK. Porsche Pasha centres and custom stitching give a retro vibe to the modern-day buckets, while a Kenwood KDC-W707 head unit provides all the audio required in a truck that weighs a mere 900kg.įinishing the overall look is a set of Autostar Kanji wheels measuring in at 14x9in all round. We’ll be adopting the Air Lift Performance motto of ‘Drive Low, Park Lower!’įor the interior a pair of Cobra Nogaro seats perfectly fill the cabin, but these aren’t off-the-shelf items… not by a long shot.

Don’t think we’ll be driving it around on stilts, though. The install is completely hidden under the flat bed, with the only giveaway being the Air Lift 3P controller mounted in the dash. Once again we left it with Phil The Install Company, a man who’s skills and ability continue to blow our minds! Super-high suspension might be necessary for an actual workhorse pick-up, but being a show car for Meguiar’s we needed some serious lows! Having previously fitted Air Lift Performance suspension to our Crown Vic several years back, we knew air was the only solution for project Rising Sunny.

Long-suffering friends (and neighbours) Reflex Auto Design took on the paint and bodywork, installing the Hakosoka front end along with flaring the rear arches and relocating the mirrors. Get it wrong and any swirls or cobwebs are made infinitely worse compared to other, lighter colours. Get it right and the finish is second to none. Panels test fitted, it was time for the fun to begin…īeing a Meguiar’s show car, we needed a paint finish guaranteed to shine (not to mention show up any imperfections) so we opted for the detailer’s nightmare… black. In fact, it wasn’t until February that the build really started to gain traction, after we took delivery of the awesome Hakosuka-inspired bodywork courtesy of 09 Racing in Japan. We first took delivery of this Datsun Sunny pick-up back at the end of last year, and truth be told it lay pretty dormant for a few months while we compiled a plan of attack for it (not to mention accumulating a whole load of parts from across the world). As we approach August it’s safe to say the entire team at Meguiar’s UK have been flat-out with the show season every single week, but quietly chipping away in the background has been our latest project car build – Rising Sunny.

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