280zx 1979 2+2 slick roof restauration

[dutchzcarguy]

It's November 2019. The zx was for years in a heated garage. Bought me a new battery and a new windshield.. This month my car go's to the pro - paintershop… i hope haha  (oh are all those painters people were no good arranggements can be made ???  If i say tomorrow at 10 i'm there at 10!  (sons of ….grrrr)  

The fuel was prepped with some stuff the keep it from clogging..  i putted in the battery after a check for lose cables (the dash is not in..)  Then i started the car, the fuelpump started but no starting engine.. then the alarm made itself known.. AH.. that's it.. somewhere here has to be a switch.. i switched the alarm of and.. turned the key..  Yup!! it started right away! 

 

 

 

Some pic's from the work this year...

 

 

rear spring.

Cleaned but not perfect.. If someone knows a way to paint this fabric.. it's called "tricot"  would be nice to paint it a bit darker...

 

rear bumper, lots of dents taken out.. a week of work every afternoon….

 

cleanup for paint..

 

hinges..

 

TAKE A GOOD LOOK.. at these.. Original hinges and no whear on them !!!  had good maintanance!!

Creative people don't have junk laying around, they just surrounded by a lot of new ideas!

 

My painter tried to weld… he shure can't..  (Danny's kaaiwerk = Danny's sloppy work..   i all deleted it.)

 

New tools..

 

Front skirt.

 

Hinges rear boot lid.

 

Get the horror out.

 

Rust off before new paint.

 

Original parts… like new..

 

An electronics engineer doing metal work.

Not bad...

 

Checking over and over the edge in the plating.

 

Making it smooooddeehhh….

 

The as new rear wishbones

 

some colored ground paint in rear wheelwell

Lots of new parts..

Rear wheelhousing , part of fuellines.

 

Edited December 8, 2019 by dutchzcarguy

[Zup]

Looking good Martin!

[dutchzcarguy]

Thanks Jim,  I'm fighting fatigue as you know. these days… eh nights...i only sleep a few hours a night and thats exhausting.. but i will finish this mother******* ….. car!! 

[bartsscooterservice]

Danny's Kaaiwerk haha

You have been quite busy Mart !

Will be nice to see a finished 280ZX from 1979 !

[dutchzcarguy]

14 minutes ago, bartsscooterservice said:

Danny's Kaaiwerk haha

HAHAHA... yeah  Danny's  SLOPPY WORK..   You should see his work on my engine hood..  Everyone could see he had no interest no more.  After his girlfriend had dropped my windscreen in the home i could pick up the pieces en come en get the car.. paid him (partly) in advance for paint i will never see.. also had to buy a new windscreen ..  Till this day they still won't admit that she just dropt my windscreen, they say they never seen one..  oh my mistake… I  (Bart and me went and got them in his Van..) I never bought that heap of parts just for that perfect windscreen!  Now i'm on the 3th screen!  pfffff……   The next guy… who's gona drop this one….  illl Shoot!!!… (Just kidding..)?

[dutchzcarguy]

Last week the new screen came in from Germany...  I take it in the box to the painter.   Yeah fool me ones.. ?

Edited November 10, 2019 by dutchzcarguy

[bartsscooterservice]

20 hours ago, dutchzcarguy said:

HAHAHA... yeah  Danny's  SLOPPY WORK..   You should see his work on my engine hood..  Everyone could see he had no interest no more.  After his girlfriend had dropped my windscreen in the home i could pick up the pieces en come en get the car.. paid him (partly) in advance for paint i will never see.. also had to buy a new windscreen ..  Till this day they still won't admit that she just dropt my windscreen, they say they never seen one..  oh my mistake… I  (Bart and me went and got them in his Van..) I never bought that heap of parts just for that perfect windscreen!  Now i'm on the 3th screen!  pfffff……   The next guy… who's gona drop this one….  illl Shoot!!!… (Just kidding..)?

Yeah it's better to have a professional shop do to the body work, and the rest YOURSELF.

I learned the hard way to..

EVEN now I still have that on-going problem with my mustang automatic transmission as you know.. not much skilled people left these days, where the hell am I paying for ? I've prob could have done it better myself with a good book and patience..

[dutchzcarguy]

Last saterday the car went to the painter.. He says it's going to stay there for about 3-4 month.. A sheet metalworker is going to finish the last bits..  some small dents and make everything good for sealer and primer.

I can do some sanding in his shop,and putting al the part together to check if it all stil fits together before painting.

 

[Reptoid Overlords]

Your pictures reminded me of when I was trying around with the idea of deleting the front bumper and having someone mold a lower lip. I always thought it would be nice to get rid of the ZX bumpers.

Yours is a lot less rusty and beat up than mine. Haha. Looks nice.

Ga zo door!


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[dutchzcarguy]

18 hours ago, Reptoid Overlords said:

Your pictures reminded me of when I was trying around with the idea of deleting the front bumper

You remind me now of thinking to modify some 240z bumpers and put those on a 280zx.. chrome bumpers, i like them but.. no.. the car is completely Original, i should not mess with that..

There is a guy working on my car at the painter… He must be in his 60's and he told me yesterday he is doing this kind of work for over 51 years!!!   So, if he can't make it perfectly straight, no-one can!  

[dutchzcarguy]

18 hours ago, Reptoid Overlords said:

Ga zo door!

Haha, i just realized.. that's dutch! 

[dutchzcarguy]

Yesterday made some pics of a few spots that needed a little bit of putty.  

And on the front i'm putting all the puzzle parts together to get it fit the right way before paint..