16 minutes ago, HS30-H said:

......(snipped..cjb)......There go those pesky cats again. I was referring to the parts/components photographed on location by independent photographers working for two different Japanese magazines. Seeing as the articles were specifically about the VZ Program process it seems to me a fairly high probability (shoot me if you think it's an assumption too far...) that the parts would end up on VZ Program cars. Clear enough? Hope so.

Speaking of parts - from the beginning getting all the needed parts was a real challenge. E-Mail from June 12, 1997

Exception here (damn it).........Remember/PAY ATTENTION - the second iteration all had my reproduction door jamb and engine compartment ID tags. I've stated this more than once but given the source it's not taken into consideration.

I consider Les a friend, confident and partner- in- crime, we had several long chats about the car(s) he did. I won't repeat any of them here for obvious reasons.

49 minutes ago, deanhuff said:

@Carl Beck thank you for the clarification. In an effort to determine the shop that worked on my car I emailed Les. He told me: "The cars I did were in the 23000 serial number range." It seems my car was done at Pierre's. I'm still thinking my car may likely be the 3rd one in this YouTube Video. If you have a copy of this speadsheet with Pierre's list, can you post it?

Dean I don't think that is your car. The Master list has a revision date of Jan 1998, it shows your car as #18 and having been finished. The date in the video of the red car being driven out for test is late April 1998 and the red Vintage Z has silver mag wheels. I think it may be 40904.

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