Patcon

http://www.classiczcars.com/topic/55266-carlisle-import-performance-nationals-needs-show-cars-and-race-cars/ This is his thread

That all sounds good

PM cbukzesk He has a lot of parts spread out at Carlisle right now...

I like that drivers quarter, lots of badges and interesting stuff

nix240z has done this on his own Z, and he knows what it takes. You could try to patch the hole but it is hard to do with out warping the roof. The best method is re-skinning the whole roof about 150 spot welds...

That's the kind of advance I need...

Thanks Chuck I have to plan pretty far out to make these kinds of trips and work often gets in the way. I hope to start making more of these in the next few years...

Wish I were closer...

115mph in boat is hauling it...

Or you could contact one of the members parting cars. There are three currently I believe. I usually feel old used is better than new cheaply made...

I would love for you to provide some more details on what it a takes to go this route. If I were doing a car as a driver only I would be interested simply to upgrade the wiring, but since these cars many times switched the ground or had some other oddities I would like to know how hard it is to integrate a new harness to the chassis

I would agree with Guy. Especially if Rebello did the work...magnet anyone...

What he said...

Ahh puppies, that'll make you see red...

Is that a "surge tank" or an "intake plenum"? I may be mistaken

No hurry, thanks...

I saw that but I wasn't sure that wasn't under coater peeling off instead of rust. The big thing to me as far as an unknown is what is the premium on a very early car compared to a car like Grannyknots sub 2000 vin or a later sort of normal Vin car? I don't know but I would think with the recent appreciation in Z car values the very early cars would experience this even more so. If that is rust, then a color change or recent re-spray would scare me even more. A bad "fill it and paint it" would really hurt if you spent $50k on this car only to find the typical chassis rust in the floors, rockers, doglegs and quarters. While this might seem outlandish today I don't think the days of $100k Z cars is that far off. The really low number cars, properly restored will be bringing that in the next 7-10 years, maybe sooner. Especially if governments around the world keep printing money.... Hagerty has them at $50-60 right now, 10% appreciation compounded for 7 years doubles the value to $100-120k...

You know you are running right at the edge when you have 2 and 3 tires off the ground...

@sdyck If you remove the ac system, I may be interested in it although shipping might be kind of steep...

I agree the low vin is really appealing but the 50k is really too high. The car is obviously not "all original" and I would be concerned it has had a color change. If it is not the original color then a need to completely re-spray drops the value a lot. I would think $15,000 to $20,000 wouldn't be out of reason for an extremely low number car $30k at the outside. 50k....No

I looked a little bit. Everything I saw was NLA. I believe Fastwoman requested one of these kits years ago at the Nissan parts counter and they couldn't get them and they had never seen one

Sweaty If you're referring to the little pod on the left side of the console that is usually the AC controls. Dealer add on...

Look for a thread by careless. He has done a very thorough restoration and covered most of this in his thread. There is not a comprehensive list anywhere that I know of...

Are you sure your timing is not 180d out?

Les Collins motor...sounds fabulous