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Interesting. I am sure others will chime in but maybe a previous owner installed the round vented emblems because they liked the style of them. Either way, looks like you got some holes to fill when you are doing your body work.

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I read "Canadian beaver, no pants".

Beautiful car! I hope you break a high sale record. Cliff

Very nice car. Wish i was in a position to buy my 2nd Z.

Deceptive title there Cliff. But if it's yours, I like those wheels & the color, very nice. Wait, today is April 1st ...

I'm in! Do you accept Canadian viewers in beaver hats and no pants?

Just wanted to check back in on this and say that the new distributor solved my previous issue. Time to iron a few other things out before I can get the car done though. Seems like I've had it in the garage more times than on the road unfortunately.

I think so too. I can't wait to get her back on the road but I promised myself that I will also enjoy the journey. I plan on keeping this thread well past completion. Needs some work on the passenger side. Nothing to bad at all tbh. I will be dropping it off at the body shop in the first week of June. They are going to start with media-blasting and we are going to go from there. I noticed that also with all the research I have done. I talked to a friend of mine that has a 1970 also and he loves his MOMO. I was telling him I wished I could find the steering wheel that came on the car which has the indentions rather than the holes. The next day he was at my house and told me I could have his that had been collecting dust in his closet for about 5 years. I told him it was kind of a collectors item and paid him a fair price for it (I think). He was happy and so was I. I have been planning it and saving up for it for 3 years. I plan on restoring this completely with minor modifications. I am in the Navy and am being sent to a C-School from June-September. I have talked to a shop here in SoCal several times regarding a restoration and my vision for this car. They understand what I am trying to do and will be doing the work. I will deliver the car to them the first week in June before heading to VA until September when I will do the final inspection and bring the car home. There will be several times that I come home and inspect the progress of the car, as well as visit my wife, LOL. I am putting a L28 Bore/L24 Stroke +1mm OB with a 260/260, .460/.460 cam in her. Not to worry I love my history and will be rebuilding the original L24 and crating it and storing it in my garage. That is just a few of the plans, I could list out the whole build but we will see it together on these pages. Thank you all for the inspiration and keep the comments coming. I look forward in giving 1121 a new life. Clay

Bruce- While I'm putting the little paddlewheels in my gauges, I hooked up the 10V battery with one new LED installed in the volt gauge. It was quite bright, so I took it out, and dug up the green Sharpie and gave the chips on the bulb a bit of green and reinstalled. After I hooked up the battery, I turned the room light off, and lo-and-behold: green light! It was still a bright green, but I don't mind, because the marker took some of the brightness off, and since I won't be using all LEDs, I think it'll come out fine. The gauges will now have a traditional green glow. I'm looking forward to being able to read both tachys this summer, and not having to change the bulbs every year. Since I don't have some of the weaker LEDs, I will continue to use the incandescent bulbs for the turn indicators, high-beam, etc.

Pants? Who's wearing pants?

FYI, I merged the double post so you only have one to manage.

I think you have yourself a diamond in the rough there.

Orange peel is another challenge for the DIY painter. We don't normally have the equipment or experience to avoid it. You can run a little more pressure so it atomizes better but you use more material when you do. We also don't tend to have professional level guns that lay down a better finish. The best thing to do is lay down an extra coat or two of clear and wet sand it out.

I don't understand! You want the car pristine and painted correctly but you don't want to pull the engine to paint the engine bay! Then when one (jfa.series1) of the foremost experts on the factory methods tells you they painted them black on the radiator support you question that! If you want it factory, black out the lower radiator support! If you don't want it factory then don't! But don't question whether the information is good when it comes from an original owner that won 1st place last year at Zcon just because some one on Youtube did it different I'm done...

Please stop with the "exactly" - its a bit irritating. I painted the same area as Nissan but its not "exact" because I used gloss paint for the reasons I explained. I don't know why other don't paint this area. It will take only an ounce or two to paint that bulkhead. Since Nissan never used POR-15, you should use it wherever you think its needed. As to more pictures, of course I do. Many of them are in this YouTube video I made up of my restoration project but don't expect me to clutter this forum with them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L1oxFQMfcU