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1970 Datsun 240Z Series I

Bid for the chance to own a 1970 Datsun 240Z Series I at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #194,522.

3 hours ago, 240 in OZ said:

Havent seen this one posted here yet:

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1970 Datsun 240Z Series I

Bid for the chance to own a 1970 Datsun 240Z Series I at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #194,522.

This is a beautiful car. I would think this auction would be the litmus test in the early Z market today.

A handful of mistakes/omissions but not bad

53 minutes ago, zspert said:

A handful of mistakes/omissions but not bad

If this one is "not bad", it makes me wonder what it takes to be good, in your opinion. Lol

I don't know that I would call the inaccuracies mistakes but there are a number of them. The exhaust system is missing the center muffler. Many nut and bolt plating inaccuracies. Many. The shift boot is the later style. So is the choke knob. Master brake is later. Just to call a few. Very nicely done restoration, though. I'm excited to see the bidding on this one.

If one is doing a restoration - a paint job, seat covers, new wheels and tires are NOT a restoration - every part of that car will pass through your hands, every part. The same amount of effort and expense will be required so why not do it correctly ? Not sure about something? Do some research, ask around, read some service manuals and pay attention to the pictures. I've been saying this for YEARS to mostly closed ears. Well, I'm not going to put my Z is a show is the most common excuse. But again, that hood latch is going to be replated along with the fasteners - plate them the correct color for goodness sakes!!

I recently attended a large annual imported car show and a 240 was displayed in a special area reserved for what are supposed to be exceptional cars. The subject car had a nicely finished body and interior but under the hood were too many mistakes to list here. This is exactly what I'm talking about. Those parts passed through the hands of someone who had the golden opportunity I stated in the first paragraph.

OK, this car - 26th-Z is of course correct about his observations, thank you. Short list - why remove the air injection manifold and not the rest of the related parts? Why use the cheapest imaginable block off plugs on the exhaust manifold? Is the Nihon decal - probably one of mine -faced in the correct direction? Why have you reused that ancient washer bottle when I've offered an excellent reproduction, with the correct motor for YEARS!

Yes, I'm confident that this example will fetch a good price and it will indeed serve as a good barometer. The new owner should drop me a line if he's interested in taking it up to Gold Medallion level.

I got a kick, perhaps perverse, when Garage 44 mentioned that he had fitted reproduction rear bumper overider rubbers. Those were one of the first parts Nissan had me reproduce for the Z Store program.

Let the abuse begin!!

PS A free 240 anti freeze decal to the first person who can identify the make and model that these parts are from.

280zx?

They look like GOLDTOE Men's 656S Cotton Crew Athletic Socks, probably from Amazon or Costco.

No, not a ZX

I knew someone would ID those socks!! For what it's worth, I got a solid, much needed, grin from that one!

Final clue

22 minutes ago, zspert said:

No, not a ZX

I knew someone would ID those socks!! For what it's worth, I got a solid, much needed, grin from that one!

Final clue

260z

I think the list of inaccuracies would be quite substantial on this one. Im not even sure you could say "most" of the hard work has been done on it if you wanted to take it to the level of Gold Medallion. Drop this one off with zspert and you would still be facing a sore wallet at the end of the day to get it to that level.

Judging by the photos of the rear hatch area under the carpet it looks like to was repainted up to and including the jambs and the interior left in there (headliner etc). No photos of the inner floors under the mats. I guess the mid range mileage will have something to do with the end result, but compared to something like the Franklin Mint car which was "remanufactured" by Bill Reagan or one of the cars by Wick Humble that we saw on BaT last year (?)...well...

Beautiful car.

I'm no expert on the early cars, but at quick glance, here's a couple things that caught my attention:

Sucking dirty air into the clean side of the air filter (because the did not cap off the nipple from the deleted the anti-backfire valve system).
Unconnected flow guide valve.
Aftermarket progressive springs.
Plastic fan.
Boot on headlight connector out of place and doing nothing.
Later design alternator. (Was mentioned on BAT)
At least one screw missing on the heater blower motor.
Not as grievous as the brake master, but an incorrect clutch master for the date of the car.

Also, it looks like the car had been Zibarted. You can see the plugs on some of the pics. Notably missing from the rear side of the RS door jamb near the latch plate. That's the area where they said they put in a new quarter panel. Easy to spot if you compare the right an left side pics.

And shouldn't this car have the "D" hubcaps with the valve stem holes in the center of the spokes instead of being in the center of the windows?