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Nice! I was messing with shop lights a couple months ago as well. I got tired of replacing 13W fluorescent bulb in my typical shop light, so I took it apart and modified it to use a 60W equivalent LED bulb instead of the 13W flourescent. Then I decided that I could stuff TWO of the 60W LED bulbs in there. Took a shoehorn and some creativity, but I got them both in. No more "blink - blink - blink - ON" of the fluorescent ballast. It's instant on, full bright even in sub-zero temps, and it's now like holding the illumination brightness of the SUN in your hand. AND it even runs cooler than the 13W fluorescent! I've got something like 1660 lumens of awesome warm while illumination POWER on the end of a cord!!

Finally got around to fixing my hitachi radio from a later s30. Hope to track down a radio manual on it. Notice It doesn't have an antenna switch. It has 2 seperate wires coming out of the back they're probably for an automatic power antenna. The PS button on the front im thinking is station presets?. Sound quality is WAY better than any other hitachi factory radio i've ever had. Very cool to see this rare stuff we never got here in the states.

The picture of the car at a marina is very interesting to me as I had those same wheels when I bought my first Zed a '73 in 1974, blue with a cream/white interior. They are EMPI wheels originally designed for the four lug VWs. If I remember correctly they were 14X 6 and were two-piece. FWIW, I have seen that same picture in a British book about Zeds. It is "Essential Datsun Z 240z to 280 zx, The cars and their story 1969-1983" by Colin Shipway. There is a picture on p. 11 of a car just like my first one. Cheers, Mike

Take a look at the pedals for excessive wear, especially the clutch. The automotive equivalent of looking at a horse's teeth to determine its age.

I wonder if this is where the "lost" chassis HLS-00009 to HLS-00012 went? Geneva certainly had one in March however later production Z's were arriving in NA by then so it may not have been one of the "lost". For "very" early Z's to be in Europe, one would expect an arrival of Sept/Oct 1969 like in North America.

When looking at Datsun racing history, it seems that the Datsun convertible sports cars in the USA in the early 60's were the first track racers and winners after the war: http://www.nissan-motorsports.com/ENN/NISSAN/HISTORY/MOTORSPORTS/index.html The USA convertible sports cars were also the first racing cars to be sponsored by Nissan. Datsun seems to have done a bit of track racing in the 30's and 40's but stopped. Datsun NL-75 1936 Apart from Nissan's well known 1958 headfirst jump into rallying that was spurred by Mr. K. .... 1958 Australia Mobil Gas Trial Nissan did little in Japan until after a non-sponsored privateer, Genichiro Tahara, won solely on his own effort at the 1st Japan Grand Prix Race, Suzuka Circuit, spring 1963. It seems this kick started Nissan into its racing activities in Japan. Genichiro Tahara Winning at Suzuka 1963. SP310_first_race_Japan_1963.mp4 In the USA things were different; Datsun's were track racing for the previous 3 years (since 1960). Mr K was in the USA and things were moving much faster than in Japan (both cars and Nissan-sponsored racing involvement). The fact that no convertible sports cars were sold in Japan for two years, the fact that Mr. K was the motive force at Nissan for racing, the fact he was now situated in the USA, and the fact he requisitioned a sports car for the USA market, affirms the 240z sport car was designed and built for the USA sports car market. Jean Le Plant and Benny Ackermann raced an SPL-212 in 1960 & 1962 then switched to the SPL-310 in 1962 Norah Taylor raced an SPL212 in 1961 Modernized "Datsun 1200" SPL-212 Commemorating Nissan's first Sponsored Racer: Jean Plant's 1960 LHD SPL-212 #129 Datsun 1200. It Raced from 1960 to 1963 in the USA.