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Nate take heart from the pictures in Grammercyjam's gallery, even cars that would seem to be scrapyard fodder can be repaired. Even really bad rust in the rails and floorpans can be repaired if it comes to it. I suppose the question is what is the rest of the car like? If it is good then probably worth trying to repair it. Brian Interesting suggestion. I have considered something like this on my long term project which has a very rusty front end. Rather than try to source replacement inner wings I was considering making up a tube front end, which can be made significantly stronger and lighter than original. ( It is intended to make it into some kind of track car so it would need some strengthening to the front end anyway) As I haven't done anything like this berfore the difficulty is knowing where to start and with what strength materials. Andrew

Chris Having visited a couple of shows recently and met up with some zedheads local to me, I've got up a real head of steam over here to get my car running this summer and so other non-essential items have taken a back seat. I'm sure you had a great time at the convention. I saw your photo standing next to Mr K: if that smile had been any bigger your head would have split in two:classic: Now that you have seen them up close, do those seat guards have a smooth texture or a crinkle texture similar to the dash? I can't promise I will be able to replicate the texture anyway. Apologies to Halz for screwing up his thread:stupid:

quite a lot of info on Big Sam at www.zhome.com including technical specs. Click on the picture of Big Sam on the home page to get to the menus. Andrew

I don't have another paper copy of the template, and realistically I am not likely to produce any more. Not because of any 'attempts to restrict trade' but because it wasn't that easy to do. My original plan was to remove the staples from a shabby z glovebox and simply trace the pieces onto a template. I then found that the shabby glovebox wasn't actually from a z..... Me and my big mouth :classic: Plan B was to produce a template from the one good glovebox I have. But I wasn't about to take that one apart, and so I traced around the sections of the box, and than had to manually correct my templates for any effect that the overlaps made, and then a lot of measuring up to make sure the templates were consistent with the assembled glovebox. The result was in total about 3 hours careful work. A few detailed photos to Mike were necessary to show how it all went together. It's great that this little project has been so well received. Shows what we can do as a club together. Andrew

I got a car wash kit as well ( sponge, wheel brush etc etc) and a HUGE bar of chocolate from my chocolate loving eldest son. Guess who has eaten most of it!!!! Best present of all was being able to sneak in 3 hours of spraying up suspension parts on my z in the afternoon.:classic: Andrew

Is it that bad? Hard to tell from the picture. Mine had a lot of surface rust under the battery tray but it was all solid.

Mike just tried to PM you and your mailbox is full Sounds llike replacement gloveboxes could be fairly popular:classic: Andrew

Nice one Mike, impressively done ( and very quick as I sent the photos less than 12 hours ago!!!!!) regards Andrew

Sulio I've seen the conversion done the other way ( ie putting 260z lights into a 240z) but that was done to avoid the excessive cost of buying replacement 240z rear lights. Do you have some 240z lights already lined up? Could be an expensive conversion. Hope it helps Andrew

Isn't that an Ansa muffler? I have one that looks like that that came on my car. Similar ones come up on ebay occasionally. Don't know whether you can still get them from MSA etc. Hope it helps Andrew

Mark Glad that everyone is OK. I take it you won't let him drive your 69 car until he is about 40 years old.:classic: My eldest son is at the age where everything he touches he somehow manages to break so I keep him well away from my z.

Bill Must be something about teenagers from Arkansas.

Just a note to point out that those dcaps are the genuine early ones, that have a smaller number of hooks round the edge to keep them on. (They are the ones that fall off if you corner too spiritedly:classic: ) I don't know when the later ones (with more hooks) came in exactly. My set of dcaps is 2 early ones and 2 later ones that I paid significantly more than $149 for:cry: )

Bad news is top of the rear quarter is a swine to repair as I don't believe repair patches are made by anyone. Good news is a lot of z's in scrapyard should have this section intact as it isn't normally a bad rust spot. What happened to your rear bumper!!!. Did you try and give a 30 ton truck a tow start!!!!:classic:

Stick to the cars Bill, much less hassleLOL What's happening in 2005 that means you can leave Arkansas?

Mike I'll enclose a piece of my old knackered glove box with the templates. regards Andrew

240znz You need to look into the servo pushrods length as well. I'm no expert, but the pushrod on my 72 car is much longer than the one on my 1970 car. I'm sure it has been discussed here previously so if you search the site you will find something about servos and pushrod lengths. hope it helps

240znz They are the same. Although the heater box is different RHD vs LHD the heater core is the same and the outlets in the bulkhead are in the same place regards Andrew

I have produced some paper templates for the glove box sections which I will send to MikeW on Monday. It is far easier to do this than to try and post the measurements here. He should have them in a week or 10 days. Andrew