Correct, Correcter or Correstest, it's a beautiful car. It looks so clean. Wonder what the under-carriage looks like.

Vicky

There is no reason to diss the example on eBay, but it is far from "stock". Way far. I love the "museum stock" reference. Can't wait for some museum to step up and offer me the big bucks - ha! We museum stock guys talk about things in terms of correct, correcter, and correctest. And it is a tough nit-picky conversation! Vicky provides a great illustration - the Japanese oil filter would be correctest.

Stock is defined by the ZCCA to exclude just about any modification or aftermarket part. This definition drifts into the "all original" conversation. For my cars, even Nissan / Datsun replacement parts could be different (many times they are) and not correct for the year. Thats why we are seeing huge money being spent on fabric covered hoses and such. Kats just found a correct alternator for his car - very small difference, but what he had was not correctest.

The 7 / 70 date could go either way. If the car was sold in July, it was a '70. If it was sold in August, it was a '71. That's why I could care less about "model years". It was built in '70 - it's a '70.

I like the way you think -- my car will never be "museum stock" or even just stock "stock," but I like to think of it as a 1970. However, it was built 12/70 (just under the wire) and I got tired of the "it's a 1971" comments. So to most of the rest of the world I'll just call it a 1971, but in my head I'll be thinking 1970 because it has all the Series I features of the earliest cars and it can't help it if it's birthdate came so late in the year.

this same zed was listed oct 03 and sold for $10100 with 31 bids. i emailed seller and asked what happened(dead beat bidder?) but got no reply.