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I've been stuck on this album for a couple of weeks now. I'll put on something else and after that finishes I'll say to myself... Let's give John Hiatt - Walk On another play.

Thanks for the reply and it does make sense. Maybe I'll see if I can find another tach or a replacement smoke kit. Hopefully Lucas parts would be compatible with our Z cars!

@cgsheen1 Maybe you can help with my tach. After my mechanic did my zx distributor in my 240Z all was well for some time so I guess it's wired correctly. Then one day I was out for a drive and watched the tach all of a sudden start climbing and in a few seconds it had gone all the way over to 8. I shut the car off and sat for a minute then started it back up and ever since it doesn't go above about 3500 RPM. My ballast resistor is removed. Other than that my car runs just fine. Any ideas, maybe a coil change? There's no marking on my current coil so I don't know what ohm it is.

@Captain Obvious What is the build date of your car? Is your map light in the dash hooded? I ask because there are a couple of us with pre HLS30-21000 that have hooded map lights. The hooded map light is one of the things that Datsun stated would be updated for the 21000+ cars.

Here's the fuse block Cover from my 12/70 car 17486.

You didn't mention which TachMatch Device you installed? I did a ZX matchbox distributor with removed resistor on my 12/70 car. My tach almost works but doesn't seem to go any higher than about 3500 RPM.

Wondering where you've installed the obligatory rust on "Lilly" ?? 😉

Took the Z to a show at a local Chevy dealer. When I pulled in the dealership owner said "We never see these cars, I want you parked at the entrance".

A very early AI movie (and there's a trilogy of 3 books) is "Colossus: The Forbin Project" released in 1970. And yes, we lose control of it.

I never lock my 12/70 240Z. It's garaged almost 100% of the time. When out it's for a show or cruise night or visiting friends. There's nothing in the car that really worries me and I'd rather have it just stolen than having someone break a window to get what they're after!

Is this like Datsun saying the hooded map light was one of the changes for 21000 and beyond yet 2 of us with 12/70 cars have hooded map lights. I would think it possible for Datsun to document zinc if that was the direction they were going but I could also see them using up cad NOS if they had it.

Then I would guess that with the electronic flasher it makes no difference since it's not load related. And in the case of my all LED bulbs the load (even with all 8 hazard lights blinking) is insignificant.

I left mine blank, but I don't have driving lights. I did repurpose the slot for the manual throttle next to the choke for the antenna switch when I swapped out the stock radio back in '91 for a Sony cassette player that I've now replaced in 2017 with a RetroSound Bluetooth radio. Our son 3D printed the faceplate for the radio with the raised lettering and the surround of the radio face that I painted white so it has a more stock look.

@WJ4Fun When I did the LED conversion on all my lights I used the same flasher for both blinker and hazard lights and both work just fine. No idea why Nissan would have different part #'s for the flashers.

Here it is over hiding against the passenger side relays just behind the vent pull rod.

They've added some pictures for the "barn find". The steering wheel is not from a early car, it has a cap on the dash, caked sludge on the oil pump, you can see rust in the picture looking down on the driver rocker... Engine bay is also in the new pictures, pretty scary looking.

Stevej's recommendation for LED bulbs is spot on. I would go so far as to recommend all external bulbs be LED. If you do that be sure to use colored bulbs that match the lense color they go behind. And you will also need to replace the blinker and hazard flasher with electronic units which are available on Amazon. I used these. https://www.amazon.com/Hbxdeco-LED-Flasher-Relay-Replacement/dp/B0DBQDY9PX/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?c=ts&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.r0vtsr6gvhaP0JqIkrNNWe1VSyoKzqOmRDZMqIRm6Sx2S7hdmByoSlq5B7nnOyC4MjUdGvYR06DT5etEUXNzrXbi7AcSH8Rng3yRz4GSf1YwuYjEHcbLtbKRPcP3uDHyo1Fn9msBVau9Fk45nP6kIF-9rnZd6556d6neZaina6L_ZLR8n8uvVl9wvzzTfmPOdAe6JyV2wZsad-_tpTWpyg.1qmzhFAIKk5rXUhbY14Gkd6aGisVISftIH7AlWO7sMs&dib_tag=se&keywords=Automotive+Electronic+Flashers&qid=1756048201&s=automotive&sr=1-4&ts_id=15716621

I had also sent a message to silodrome using their contact form Contact Us - Silodrome letting them know about the build date and that looking at the car it probably had 107000 miles on the clock rather than the 7000 in the article. I'd bet that the Ben guy that wrote the article didn't know that the odometer has only 5 digits.

Saw this on my news feed 1970 Datsun 240Z | eBay Found it this article Incredible Barn Find: An Early Datsun 240Z With Just 7,000 Miles The listing claims the car was built in '69, but the tag in the door looks like 9/1970 which is more in line with its VIN HLS30-10683. Right off the top the shift knob doesn't appear to be wood as it should be.

@pjczc8 I would hope that the white stripe is only on one side. If so, just mount them black walls out. I had some BFG Radial T/A with the raised white lettering on only one side. I had them mounted black lettering out. EDIT: Don't know if you can tell from the photo in my sig, my wife's truck has Radial T/A's black lettering out.

Can't say anything about fitment but I do like the T/A's. Had them before and think I'll be going back, black walls out for next tires.

68727 is listed in the VZ section of Carl Becks site, registered 10 years ago. Is this the prior owner you mention? VIN: HLS30 68727 Production Date: 02 / 72 Color Body /Int: Red/black Orig.Eng.Number: L24 86793 Owner: Rick Bailey City/State/Cntry: Akron, Ohio USA Sold By Z Store: Courtesy Nissan Comments: e-mail: Date Registered: 1 May 2015 Reported by: Owner

I did these "Roadster" seatbelts in black from Wesco in my 12/70 car. I also needed the hardware accessory kit for the angle floor pieces. The retractor piece goes on the roof place where the stock shoulder strap attached. And I've been very happy with these! Roadster Retractable Seat Belt 2 Point Retractable Seat Belt Hardware Kit HW#1 EDIT: @Captain Obvious Forgot to mention... You only need a single hardware kit. The 2 "L" brackets are what you want for the buckle side of each belt. The rest of the mounting hardware can be re-used from the old belts.

Or a '77 Turbo Carrera (930) is also a beautiful car.