The Pao Project

The Pao was part of the Pike Factory Cars (as was the Figaro) so we thought it was worth a mention! We were excited to see this initiative from The Figaro Shop

Words and Pictures: Toby Brooks

We love the Nissan Pao, it’s the older brother of the Figaro. We want to make it even cooler, but we need your help to design it. If you’ve ever dreamed of being a car designer, setting colours, choosing styles and selecting finishings, NOW is your chance to get involved. Our standard Nissan Pao is going to receive a full restoration – our only criteria is that we’re going to give it a better engine, gearbox and full mechanical upgrade. The rest is up to you. 😎

As the Pao designer, you can get involved by suggesting styles, voting for the final choices and giving us your opinion throughout the process. Sign up to get updates and links to the survey forms, we don’t want you to miss out on putting your own twist on the build.

We need your help at all stages throughout the build. To start with we are making performance upgrades, we’re fitting a Turbo, a better gearbox and a few other special parts. Whilst we’re doing it can you help with the colour? We’ve made a few suggestions but feel free to go wild! Here is an update from the last few days, you can see we’re starting to pull everything apart and discovering what’s involved with the updates we want to make.

LATEST UPDATE…

Hello guys! So we’ve been working away and making some great progress.

You can see we’ve managed to get the engine mocked up in the car, it was a bit of a squeeze but it’s in😎 (check out our Facebook video for more details on it)

Mat has started to build a wiring loom by blending a Nissan Figaro and Pao loom together. It’s a huge job, as you can see the car is basically a shell. Everything going to work through, all the A/C, clocks etc will still function exactly as they did before. As well as the more advanced parts of the Figaro engine.

Most exciting though is the colours………Midnight purple is in the lead 🤩

We’re closing the vote on Tuesday (23.8.22) and then it’s straight onto paint 😛lots more amazing upgrades still to come

So…if you want to support midnight purple, or pick your own colour – VOTE NOW

JOIN THE MAILING LIST TO BE PART OF THIS DESIGN PROJECT