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@siteunseen Saw on the news that Alabama has had some dicey weather with massive tornados. Hope all is well!

In fact that is Takeuchi san's Z432-R, as used as a muse through the whole genesis of the RZ34 project, and debuted today on Nissan's Fairlady Z-themed stand at the 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon, paired with the RZ34 'Customised Proto' concept car:

I live in the Northern Alabama area, at the beginning or end of the Appalachian Mountains. Luckily the worst weather always happens farther down where there's no mountains. They get hit pretty bad by tornadoes as you've seen on the news. Bad rain and some wind was all that happened around here. Thanks for reaching out and sorry I haven't replied sooner.

@zed2 Hi Keith, sorry i missed your question. Let me check the numbers on the various struts i have next week. I'm on the way to the airport right now. Yesterday i was able to pick up another lot of small NOS bits and pieces for the 240Z project from a nice german bloke, who offered them them to me. Let's start with the obvious elephant in the room: A used original Datsun / Nissan Competition steering wheel in quite good shape (needs a little touch up, though). Since the original Japanese "Z" logo horn button was a bit worn out, he additionally included a reproduction item: You might remember i once had the opportunity to buy a complete reproduction steering wheel, which i still have, but the real deal is of course always better. See this link for a comparison to the original steering wheel and a bit of background information on the Compe steering wheel. The one i got now looked a bit dried out, so i thought i give it a bit of "cockpit lotion" treatment to preserve it before i put it in storage. As you can see on the towel it was quite dirty, only from rubbing a bit: Now it feels much smoother and additionally smells nice *lol* The rest of the parts mainly consist of NOS (New-old-stock) random small bits and pieces, which are always good to have on hand when restoring a car. I got various gaskets transmission-to-driveshaft seals and an alternator bracket in the original nice blue colour (this will come handy as a colour reference when painting the motor!)... Also included were a Relay (or fuse?) cover, a Battery tie-down-hook, a set of drum-brake rubber seals, a clutch cylinder / piston and a set of new interieur door-handle plastic shells: Then a few new heater control knobs, those small plastik things just below the windscreen, a few engine-bay / firewall rubber gaskets and the clutch cable rubber gasket, as well as a new nissan radiator coolant hose: Since the seller didn't have some of the originally listed parts anymore, he offered me a free new Japanese "Fairlady Z" Book instead. It is a kind of a mix between a high-end hardcover sales brochure and photobook: It consists of mainly beautiful photos of the new Fairlady Z (sadly no pictures together with the older generation Z's) And some information about the different options, colours etc. Nice to have and put it in my lecture collection 🙂 Once again many small pieces of the puzzle collected to put the car back together.

Even industrial strength Lume couldn't make this one smell good. 😎

Pity the person that buys this mess.

@siteunseen Saw on the news that Alabama has had some dicey weather with massive tornados. Hope all is well!

Go with both, stock wheels and hubcaps/wheelcovers for shows etc, and aftermarket wheels for the drive. Or even widened stock rims for the drive, with the hubcaps off.