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I came across this on Youtube today. Very nice looking paint. I assume it is a respray. Of interest to me at this moment, as I am nearing completion of the body work on my car and will be handing it over to be painted, is the ability to sight down the side of this car as it rotates in front of the camera. In the reflections, I can see low areas on the fenders and on the doors in particular. I have worked very hard to eliminate similar looking low areas on my car's panels. This weekend, I'll be sanding again... sanding down the primer I sprayed on the car two weekends ago. I am hoping that my low areas are finally gone.

So @EuroDat, the place in Austria came through. It arrived on Monday, which was surprisingly fast shipping. I paid out the nose, but the shop only had to wait a week. Thanks for that!

It works.. but you have a chance on a bended axle in your starter.. (as it has to "start" the whole car now..) I would use it when on a traintrack crossing.. and nothing worked.. to get off it hahaha...

The first year, they had me putting wheels on a Cadillac:

Not practical for a 10 mile drive in mixed freeway and urban/suburban streets, but suitable in an emergency. Had a flatbed tow my car to Z Car Garage. Bleeding didn't help so we replaced the clutch master/slave cylinders, the line, the clevis pin. ZCG did the work on the spot, while I waited. Recommended!

I'm glad Sam was able to take a look at your car. He's a good guy. As for springs, I am currently running Suspension Techniques, along with KYB struts. Overall, it lowered my car by about an inch. Going to coil-overs will provide you with greater adjustment, but might be a bit of overkill unless you plan to track the car. Below is a good write-up on strut and spring options.

I’ve actually cut up a few cars to avoid the paperwork hassle too. Still a bit of bother, as you can’t reduce an entire car to a pickup load and get the scrapyard to take it, so several trips, with a fender, door, a hood, then another with a few more bits, etc.

So sort of, on all points. My experience has simply been I have had vehicles that didn’t have titles, that I wanted a title for, or I had a vehicle without a title I wanted to scrap. The salvage yard wouldn’t take them without a title, or at least an affidavit of lost title. For the former, an affidavit is filled out and submitted at a vehicle license agency. A search is conducted using the VIN, and if it turns up no liens or registration records, a new title is issued. For the latter, an affidavit is filled out, and you call the sheriff. The sheriff comes by, inspects the vehicle, calls in the VIN (if it has one), and if it comes back clear, you get a document that allows the scrapyard to accept the car as scrap without concern about illegal activity.

That's just a perspective/lens distortion phenomenon. Two hood pin type fixings can be seen on the edges of the tailgate. It has a Works replica 'J' country plate (in keeping with many Works lookalike/replica/tribute 240Z/260Z rally cars) and 'Standard' type bumpers Edit: Looking at the zoomed image I believe I can see normal 'Deluxe' rubber corner strips on the bumper. There's the perspective/lens distortion effect on the bumper too. Monday Morning Quarterbacking (driving/navigating) there. This stuff is not as easy as it might look. Many a good driver has ended up in the Ypres cabbage fields. Anyway, the license plate of the car is quite clearly visible. 'TTU 858H' is an example of a retrospective 'period' registration for 1969/70, given to 'Historic' class cars which have been recently imported to the United Kingdom. The UK vehicle licensing agency will award a 'period sympathetic' license number to such cars and they are allowed to run the period silver on black plate format. The car checks out on the UK government's vehicle licensing system (freely searchable) and will most likely be a 1970 Datsun 240Z imported from north America and modified for historic rallying in the UK and Europe.

Looks very clean 🙂

This isn't exactly topic related but it was painted in the early 80s and looked like a busted block wall with a new ZX inside. I saw this when I was a young teenager and it started my love for the style which from the front mimicked the 911s of the day. So simply put this started my Z interest. It looked great for a few years then then the neighborhood idiots started spraying all over it. The owner of Ed's Foriegn Car Parts kept it touched up and nice for a few years then just let it go. I went by there the other day and snapped this weak arse picture of my youth. They'll tear the building down soon but I've admired this since '83 maybe?