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Good morning and greetings from Germany/Europe. After reading along here for a long time, I am now introducing myself as the ‘marketing guy’ from S30.world. Even if this might be a mistake, because I'm speaking up as a "newbie" and will surely get 40 knives rammed into my back. But I'm willing to take that risk. So please forgive me if my language isn't perfect and I don't know most of the people here in the forum. I think the community here has been connected for a very long time and it's difficult to let someone outside the USA into the "inner circle". But let me at least try, and I hope that a certain amount of friendliness in all directions will certainly do everyone good. As Chris already wrote, we are busy every day doing our best and put a lot of effort into understanding and paying attention to every detail as best we can. Of course, the fact that our team is located all over the world also plays a major role in this. We are in the Netherlands, Hungary, Switzerland, Australia, England, Japan, the USA... This is very important because the S30 series was not developed solely for Japan, nor solely for the USA, nor solely for Europe. The entire S30 family is a globally designed car. And every export market is different (even though, as we know, the USA makes up a large proportion of exported cars). But not many people know that European cars are significantly different from those in the USA. The fact that cars in Portugal are also VERY different from cars in the rest of Europe is also an interesting story. But why is that? What impact do laws in Australia have on cars in the USA, for example? What do changes to cars in Japan have to do with cars in Europe? Why are there still 260Zs and no 280Zs in Europe and other export countries in the years 76-78, while in the USA it is the other way around? These are all questions whose answers are connected like a tight net. So you should never look at just one export market. That would not be the whole story. We, as a group of people spread across the globe, gather our knowledge and try to answer questions. (For example: who knew that between 1969 and 1978 there were 10 different factory hubcaps for the Zs?) We are simply passionate nerds who not only restore cars, run a museum and reproduce parts, but are also on the hunt for all these undiscovered mysteries. I think it matters less which words in our press release are "allowed" from this forum – because surely it is also our goal to appeal to people who haven't owned a Z for 50 years, but are new to the topic. Above all, it's about sharing all our experience (people are already laughing about the fact that I was born in a Datsun. My family has been driving Datsuns since the early 1970s, and the first car I ever sat in was a 1973 Cherry E10, a model that wasn't even available in the USA) and to create a place that inspires all Z fans worldwide. I therefore invite all sceptics to visit our museum in the Netherlands and take a look at the cars. It's certainly exciting to see how they are built. Incidentally, we are very grateful if anyone on location notices that, for example, a screw is the wrong colour or a hose does not have the correct number. But please don't judge something like that just because you see photos on a computer screen. Come and visit, you are invited, and I am sure that we are all nice people who share the same hobby.

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Part 4 is out:

I am very pleased that the video has been so well received here. He hasn't been known in the Z scene before and doesn't want people to know who he is. I'm therefore taking on a bit of the task of sharing his videos everywhere. I also have to say that all of his documentaries (and there are many more!) help the Z scene a lot. If you want to see more, as a Patreon you get to see a video of the work done every day. When you watch it like this, you can only marvel at how much work goes into the small details.

Part 3 is out now:

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It is a normal hydraulic press with only 6t pressure 🙂

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Hard to estimate, but he think probably already two months with sheet metal work, blasting and complete painting.

Hello all, I would like to do a little advertising for this channel here. One of my Z friends is restoring a 240Z and has a very special way of documenting it. I think you will all be very interested and it is super relaxing to watch. In general, this is a very exciting channel!

HA! I realize only now that my text to the pictures has not been sent at all. So of course it all makes no sense. Many thanks for the hint. So again: The part number indicates an RHD loom. Excitingly, this number can also only be found in a Japanese book. My documents of the US and EU models do not have this number. This is also very much in line with a forum post I found on the subject: https://zclub.net/community/index.php?threads/what-relay-plugs-in-here.26694/page-3 "24013-N3305 - ASSY - HARNESS INSTRUMENT 07-72 thru 07-73 (HS30). Looks like a stock RHD Export instrument panel harness. 24024-E8200 is a little more obscure. I don't see it in either the R-Drive Export or L-Drive Export factory parts lists, and the 'E82' prefix indicates something first used/developed for the Japanese domestic RHD S30 models for 1971-on production. More specifically, it is in the Japanese market factory parts list as HARNESS - ACCELERATOR - HEAT GLASS & COOLER (superseding 24024-E4100 and 24024-E4101) and - looking at what section it is listed in - it may originally have been designed for the 'Standard' (no frills) model in Japan from '71 up, allowing a factory aircon ('cooler') unit to be installed as an extra cost option. It may then have been fitted to some RHD Export cars in connection with the heated rear window, with the extra connector for the cooler sitting like 'tits on a bull' or an 'appendix/nascent monkey tail' (take yer pick). I can see this on the Japanese market wiring schematics." Maybe that's why the switch doesn't really belong in a US car?! I love things like this!

That is precisely the big question. Was it retrofitted? Was it always like this? I just wanted to document it here. Just like the "FLASH" pull switch, which has not yet been documented here. I actually don't have a white car. Why do you ask?

No, the switch from my picture (marked as "Japan, Euro..." on the older picture) is out of a US car.

And: Today I took the left switch out of a 71 US car.

Hi guys. To warm up this topic, I have another switch: 240Z EU model from NL 1973:

Thanks a lot! Thats why there is nothing in the books!

Both cars I saw this on were US cars. Maybe this is a specific regulation of certain US states?

Yes, the Toyota thing comes up a lot, too, unfortunately. Do you have the book available? Unfortunately, in all these years I have never had the chance to find a copy.

One of his last interviews is particularly exciting. Here he very deliberately avoids many questions and avoids giving clear answers. For example, he is asked what his most difficult design was. The BMW or the Z. He answers, "The most difficult design was a fountain pen." Alan, yes, you told my about it.