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Photobucket has gone downhill lately. I was recently browsing pictures on their site and there were WAAAYY to many ads. It was frustrating so I just closed the website. Guys, picture hosting on our club is FREE for members. You have your own albums and I back up this site every night. Take a look at our photos area, you'll be very pleased with the way it works. My favorite is the way you can drag and drop multiple pictures into a gallery without compressing, or resizing, the images. I can host images at no cost because we own the server and do not pay overages for storage or bandwidth. Most other sites have gone to a pay system because they are hosting their servers on the cloud. Cloud servers are convenient, but, cost too much money in the long run. I also do this for a living, which is why I know how to make it work.

Hi all, I am posting this for a fellow member @stanleyp. He sent me a reply today when our club sent him a happy birthday message. It looks like he cannot drive the car anymore and would like to sell it to a club member. Here's some info about the car. It looks like a very well kept, low mileage, S30 in yellow (my favorite color). You can call Stanley at 315-633-2421. I should have more pics from him soon. His listed price is $19,500 OBO. One owner: Original motor with triple Weber's and K&N air filters, High performance Mallory High-Fire distributor, Coil and ignition module, New tires on original Mag rims, New high performance shocks and custom exhaust system, New fuel delivery and return system with high volume "pusher" pump. Engine compression over 180 psig in all six cylinders. Automatic transmission complete overhaul and rebuild, i.e., manually shift thru three gears or let the automatic do it for you. A great classic high power show car. Appraised by NY state appraiser at $25,000. Standard Oil Changes, Garage Kept, Accident Free, Clean, Non-Smoker. Year: 1971 Manufacturer: Datsun Model / Trim: 240Z Condition: Good Location: Kirkville, NY 13082 Mileage: 89,000 miles (143,231 kms) Doors: 2 Engine: 6 Cylinder Transmission: Automatic Exterior: Yellow Interior: Black

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Pics from the paint shop. Color looks a little funny in some of the pics because of the lighting. I love the gloss finish. I guess we let this dry and then have it polished out and we should be ready to get back to my 'shop' for assembly. WooHoo

Your car, your life, your choices. The pic you posted shows the retractor attached to a plain bulkhead that is not reinforced for a seatbelt attachment point. To me that looks like a pretty messy and potentially less safe installation. The roadster belt alternative is a clean 3-point install that utilizes the factory belt mounting points.

Pop it with a hot needle and you'll have a Texas flag.

Sold: Harada antenna motor 240Z valve cover fittings 240Z NOS steering rack bushings 240Z/260Z front sidemarker kit S30 rear sidemarker kit, no lenses 240Z accelerator linkage kit w/max-throw-stop 240Z hatch fittings kit 240Z brake proportioning valve

It's my new project! Steve thank you for your original sharing of this ebay find. I originally went to see it due to it's proximity to me thinking parts car at best due to the perception of rust having taken over. I found that the rust you see is the rust you get with the exception of just above the frame rails in the front wheel wells. The floors are solid the fuel tank looks solid. I attribute this to sitting inside the heated garage. Original wheel covers, within the first 5000, all original parts intact. I am stoked for the restoration of this series one car. This is an original owner 50,000 car with a story to tell. Would this be considered a "Barn Find"?

Tool broke, hand punched 2X4 stud. Happened a few weeks ago but I have a nice flag blood blister to remind me.

My thumb saw red then the stars.

Did some engine & engine bay detailing, I'm thinking it's not looking bad for 146,000 miles and engine never been out of the car.

Buddy has this young chick chasing him. It's not about money and he had his balls cut off. Maybe it's the toilet water cologne he uses? They have fun together though so I don't mind the age difference, this is Alabama.

It's a bit late here and the day was super busy, so no pics today. I will try and post some tomorrow. I did make the final payment of $5500 (so $6500 total for the car) to the owner today and picked up the car and most of the disassembled parts. I will have to make another trip to the PO's house to pick up the rest of the stuff some other day. So far, I am pretty happy with what I have bought.. In addition to the original radio and very nice interior (which looks bad in the pics above but great in person), I noticed that the car is also sporting the original spare (I think). Will post pics of that tomorrow. As I was sorting parts into storage bins, I noted the following items: A second steering wheel with new horn pad, two more sets of of 3 screw SU carbs (originals are on the motor), another new choke cable, a reconditioned clock that said 'working quartz' on the bag, all of the original jute in good condition with original carpeting, plus a brand new set of carpeting, a complete precision weather strip kit, 2 grills, bolts and screw in clearly marked bag indicating what area they were from, a number of boxed NOS interior parts among other things. So, looks like I have a lot of stuff to work with here.....when I get time to work on it As I was filling out paperwork with the PO, I guessed that the mileage was probably 165K given the 65K speedo indication. The PO, who is the second owner, said it is probably 65K. He said the original owner was a doctor in Nevada that did not drive the car that much as he was older and it was difficult for him to drive. He died and the car sat for quite some time until the doctors son eventually sold it. The PO bought it from the doctors son, drove it for a short while then started his 'restoraton' which didn't get very far. Again the car sat for years, until I picked it up. So, it could be just a 65K car. I guess I will probably know better when I open up the motor. Anyway, will try and post some pics tomorrow. Rich

HI All, In 1987 or so, I test drove a 1978 280Z, I think it was $1500-2000, in that range. I don't remember why I passed on it, other than it was the first car I had looked at in that search, and I wanted to check out some others. I ended up buying a 1979 RX-7. This was pre-internet, you have to remember. While that was a cool car (flip up headlights!) it didn't have that awesome "sitting in a cockpit" feel that the Z had. Well, that and the engine blew almost immediately, but hey... Fast forward 30 years, I finally reversed the decision, and got a 240Z. I have been tracking them for a few years. I didn't want a project car, I know I'll never find time to get it out of the project stage. I didn't want a concours car, because then I'd be terrified to drive it. Finally found a good candidate, in my price range, and shipped it up here from AZ. HLS30-01427, January 1970. The car came with a lot of service records. The thing that stuck out to me in reading them is just how frustrated the first and second owners must have been. The amount of work done on the car is stupendous. Makes me appreciate every 1990+ car I ever owned, even more (in terms of build quality, I mean). None of the previous owners did anything crazy, it is largely original in nature, I would say, but wow a lot of repairs and replacements were made. For example, completely re-upholstered in 1979 (only 8 years in??). It also had a refresh done by a PO (in the 80s I think). Has an airdam, metal "grill" trim (and shoulder-height trim), and wrong blue. And a non-matching L24. Immediate Plans: Find a mechanic in MN to help me with it. Install 3 point seatbelts (lots of good threads here on that). I don't have to worry about re-sale value going down because I make a 3rd anchor point for the belt, do I? My gut feeling is that this car is unoriginal enough that something like that won't matter a bit. Am I right about that though? Find the gas leak(s). Car has a permanent smell of gas, even if it hasn't run in days. First purchase made: fire extinguisher. Rig up MSA rear speaker bar. AM radio long-gone of course, but tape deck powers on. At some point, some other speakers were installed, but no trace of them now except the speaker wires going no where. Work on dampening squeaks in the cockpit. Couple good threads about that here. Not sure how crazy I want to go on that, but it seems like some work with the panels will probably cut it down a lot. Longer-term Plans: Not at all sure. Not restore it to perfection, that much I know. Maybe swap out the engine for an L28, maybe ZX 5 speed. Current engine feels tired. Since it's not the original anyway, that might be considered an upgrade? Maybe restore the interior. The 1979 or so re-upholstering has carpet everywhere (which is fine, very modern, but kind of feels not like a Z without the cheesy vinyl diamonds). Maybe completely restomod the interior, with custom leather, new seats, new color. Restore dash. Maybe new wheels. The 6 spoke (280ZX?) wheels are kind of growing on me though. Anyway, happy to be here. Wish I was going to the Z con in austin!

A new form of Ransomware? Im surprised they don't have a bit coin method of payment. I'm glad I have always uploaded photo's directly into the thread.

Happy 150 Canada!! One way to recognize it....Add up the years of the two plates

Between threads here and at zcar.com, the consensus I have seen is to stay far away.

Jim beat me to it. ?

The one texis30O is selling? I think he's looking for one that's not quite so nice. Honestly, I'd call that car a resto candidate.

Those KYBs are your typical low pressure twin tube design. Don't get too hung up on the amount of gas pressure or the rebound speed. As Zed Head alluded to earlier the gas inside those shocks isn't intended to have anything directly to do with the damping force at all. It's just in there to reduce the tendency of the hydraulic oil to foam under repeated quickly occurring cycles. In other words... Even if the gas all leaked out and there was no rebound at all, the dampers would still dampen the same for a couple cycles. They just wouldn't do it for as many cycles in a row because the oil might foam.