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Speaking of such related things... I just asked Santa for a new auto-darkening welding helmet to replace my current one. I'm tired of getting flashed. (No Cliff... Not that kind of flashed. )

Confirmation!! Thanks Cliff I was not 100% sure of the fitment. Your welcome, with these cars we have to think outside of the box more and more. Glad to help out.

Cliff know what golf tee's are AND has put them to alternative uses? OMG.... There is a whole other side to this Cliff character...

If you only knew me a little bit... Yeah I'm a character on here but your best friend when you need one in the real world. I played on my high school golf team because I don't care for team sports. Like Ricky Bobby says, "if YOU ain't first you're last". Cliff

That is super cool! I didn't know they did that. Yes, I imagine that would make it much faster and less error prone.

I would like to weigh in by pointing out that Classic Motorsports magazine is primarily an entertainment periodical and not an historical document by any reasonable stretch of the imagination. The article, although written by an extremely credible source, is written and presented as a story, an opinion, commentary, and recollection. For instance, if BRE corresponded directly with Nissan engineering directly, of course Nissan would present the described, interpreted reaction. Alan's quote above is a perfect illustration. Peter Brock offers no indication of what Nissan or Mr. Katayama were "aware"; only his opinion or perception, recollection of those days so many years ago. For that matter, even his own engines were extensively modified; balanced, cc'd, ported, polished, only resembling what was delivered and sold to the public. Of course Peter saved the day. He's the greatest. Just ask him. A true disciple in the very image of his mentor, Carroll Shelby, who incidentally, snaked the Toyota 2000GT racing program away from Peter. The reader has to take all of this with a large dose of salt, as they say. Great entertainment, great story, probably mostly true, but not factually substantiated to qualify as gospel, let alone 'history'.

All gone!

I was thinking more P.T Barnum. "there's a sucker born every minute"

Seems like that is about mid point for Highland machines. I saw one that was $14k USD. You need to add some of the machine details in the next sewing video. I don't really understand what the computer would do on a machine like that. Is it single needle of double needle, etc. Half of retail isn't really that crazy when you look at how good it works. I spent more than that on my welder. It's downright cheap looking if you're shopping for real estate in Sydney!

Great build on the 620G Jeff, enjoying your trials and tribulations all the way from Oregon where I'm doing the same to a 1973 240Z with my son. Love the missus Jeff segment, even if she is a Kiwi! Keep up the good work, from a fellow Aussie on the other side of the world.

Sorry, my camera was playing up so I lost some of the footage I took. I will try to cover the sewing in more detail for the other stuff. My old machine is a Juki ?

A few hundred miles farther north. Similar business strategy, however. "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln Dennis

Jeff, if I may offer a bit of constructive criticism: the part of the video I was most interested in seeing -- the actual stitching -- just blew by in a time lapse! I went and just bought my skins from Interior Innovations, so I was curious to see some of the production work you put in. Now that you have the fancy sewing machine, here's a link I found a long time ago that I've had my eye on doing one day: https://www.zdriver.com/forums/showpost.php?p=342586&postcount=182 This guy upholstered all of his interior panels. He (unfortunately) doesn't include many pictures, but it looks quite nice where you can see it.

Shipping costs seem kind of high. That's gonna kill the sale right there...

Is this anywhere near California Datsun, maybe?

Ewwww... Are you sure you didn't forget to turn on the gas?

Smells like a Z to me.

Kats, My best friend from high school got his helicopter pilots license at this airport: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langley_Regional_Airport I visited him a few times when he was a student and there were also many student pilots from Japan training. He could speak Japanese and tutored many. Good times back ~ 1991.

I’m really not trying to change your mind. I’m simply supporting Alan’s assertion - “with the caveat that “the truth” can depend on your point of view...” Pete Brock’s ‘truth’ is that he discovered and solved the problem. I’d guess that he is really firm in his belief that is truth. Reality which is absolute, is that Nissan was already aware and working on it. Religion has attributed the meaning of reality to truth. In fact, each of your blind men was describing their truth. It may not be reality, in fact, it isn’t, but each of them believes they have truthfully described an elephant. It is their truth. Not trying to be difficult, but this is what my PhD deals with. Alan is right. The truth depends on where you’re standing in many cases...

Truth is independent of perspective. Everything else is opinion, there is only one truth.

Be mindful that not all of our members live in the hill country of Texas. We as a forum group have done a good job of not letting politics get in the way of our fellowship and enjoyment of our cars. We have members from all parts of the US and I am sure we are not monolithic in our political views, and we don't need to be to enjoy getting together and inhaling exhaust fumes. It would probably be best to leave posts that include politics or political views unsubmitted... Just my 2cents

odd how a voltmeter can read 16v with only 11v at the battery (which is now dead and should be replaced, I would not trust one that got that low to be able to recover). Only thing can be is a defective voltmeter, unless you can take it out of the circuit and directly connect it to a known voltage source. Or is the alternator really putting out 16v (internal VR fail) and that is what the meter is reading AND for some reason the B lead from the alternator is somehow not getting back to the battery terminal. I would start by getting a good fresh battery, hooking everything up, get a meter on the battery terminal check voltage there with the car off and the car running. Next with the car running check the voltage at the alternator B lead, compare. Not sure how its wired up but the sense lead would need to be getting the battery voltage on an internal VR so you should confirm what it sees as well.

I would encourage you to not get into the "while your at it" syndrome. I did that with my current project and most of my kids have grown up with out a running Z car. It has been a long term fixture in my shop. Your life is only going to get busier for a while if you have small children. All of mine are either in college or getting close. Get your car running and enjoy it. Then your kids can have great memories of riding around with dad in his Z!

That is NOT a parts car IMO. If it is to you then I'm going to start going through your garbage . Everything I've seen so far hasn't been horrible, daunting maybe, but entirely repairable. Go slow, be patient and appreciate the small victories. You'll get there.

Ideally the car would be stripped to the shell and you would be in a shop with a proper frame jig that would prevent any movement of the other components as you cut out that major support. Since you are working on your driveway you'll want to spread that load out equally to many support points so that the dimensions of the uni body don't change. Screw jacks are good for this kind of job, you could also use off cuts from building lumber with wedges. Is the engine still in the car? You will have to be careful to support all the weight of the engine, the body could twist easily once that rail is cut out, maybe use an engine hoist/cherry picker to take the weight of the engine from above. Edit- gotham22, I just went through all of your photos again and your car really is on the balancing point between parting it out and major surgery. It can be saved but it will be extensive. My advice if you want to go ahead is strip this car down to the shell, not only so you can find all the rust that hasn't been discovered yet but also to take the weight off the frame. No half measures.

Having witnessed this traumatic experience, I thought this was right to the point. Anyone disagree ??? Rick.

I've dated them all, wrapped up in one person.

Are they related?? Because I think I've been to the family reunion -:classic: