26th-Z

The short answer is "no". The long answer is that your round emblems are fresh air vents and closing them off will ruin the ventilation system unless you change the rear hatch to the style with the vents AND change the interior panel to the vented one.

I'm having a hard time comparing what you are discussing with a $2,000 steering wheel on eBay. The steering wheel you picture is a buck meant to be covered. The joints in the wood are dangerous and the rivets are even worse. Great way to keep yourself safe in an accident, eh? No! It doesn't look cool. It looks dangerous. Steering wheels on eBay are $400 or less. Buy another steering wheel. Yours is worn out.

Look at the cam on the door hinge to determine if the hinge is one stop open or two stops open. The lower hinges changed around July 1972 from one stop to two stops; the difference between the E4100 series and E8200 series of part #'s 80420 and 80421.

Les sells spray cans for $28 or so. I have used that exact Dupli-Color for a heater cover plate in my house. Excellent paint. I sprayed over a primer base coat. I found that it was difficult to get a uniform color finish which seemed to be the thickness and drying rate of the paint. Some areas of the spray pattern were darker than other areas. Streaks. I finally got the finish I wanted and it looks great. I'm usually pretty good with spray cans. The color is just one of those!

Classic Datsun Motorsports / 240Z Parts / Misc. http://www.classicdatsun.com/index.html Or you can do a website search and read all the comments about the color.

Yep! I'm good. Still have Her Majesty and sister 27th. I got hit really hard during the 2007 - 2013 depression. Stopped working (spending money) on the cars and stopped participating in Z-Car events after the Nashville convention in 2010. Things are MUCH better now. Thanks for asking about me.

Sebring 12-hour, 1972. Ross Racing Ltd. Craig Ross and Jacques Groleau in front of the Kirk F. White Motor Racing Ferrari driven by David Hobbs and Skip Scott. The Ferrari DNF'd and the Z did not complete enough laps to be classified (138 laps behind the leader)

I'm amazed nobody has listed this link. http://www.zhome.com/History/ZColorGallary/ 903 is the one of the original colors offered in 1970. It is solid blue. 115 is metallic. Introduced in 1972 or 1973, it sparkles. The 903 example photo is actually a vintage Z, repainted in PPG paint with their color matching. This is Kats' car - 903 blue

Wow! And it isn't even brand new. I have three of those and one is brand spank'n new.

I also have this drawing. I attached a .dxf file to download? Datsun 240Z.bmp Datsun 240Z.dxf

Vicky Zrush's Vintage Z from 2004

I agree. It IS 'like' roof underlayment but with much more asphaltic bitumen composition. It needs to be quite hot to work with it. Hotter than a hair dryer. I don't see any problem with the Wurth mat.

It's a comic book interpretation of historical facts. Fun to read but far from an historical document. Yes, buy it for your collection.

This is mine. Kats did a big write-up about the FM tuner insert. It's somewhere in the archives.

The thread posted by Zup is very good. I don't think I have ever posted pictures of the real stuff. I was fortunate enough to buy this many, many years ago. These pictures have been brightened enough so that you can see what the actual material is. The insulation material is an asphaltic impregnated felt material; very thin and brittle in a room temperature state. It is around 1/32" thick - like a #120 0r #140 felt paper, however it is much more bitumen than felt. The brown spots of fibrous felt can be seen as more of a binder material. You can see that it is manufactured through a roller process. The surface finish is rough which indicates to me that the material was heated during the rolling process. The sheets I show are for replacement floor insulation. Applied with a heat gun - of course.

There is no documentation that I am aware of. In fact, there is strong evidence that the cars were NOT imported in sequential VIN. Consider that the car (s) delivered to Peter Brock, supposedly from the first shipment of cars in January 1970, had a three digit serial number. I have records of HLS30U-00026 which was imported in April 1970. This seller may very well have HLS30U-00054 which would give the impression of the 54th. Either way, it's a two-digit VIN.

PPG was the paint supplier for the Vintage Z restoration program. I would imagine that there is a well established / common knowledge PPG code to reference.

There you go! That's the thread with the answers. Thanks for the link.

I want to say no, those valve covers came with the OIL cap. My cars have the OIL cap. Every photo reference I have shows the OIL cap.

Ahh...! When I wrote my previous post, I had looked at Nissan Japan competition parts catalogs, (3 of them) and they all listed gears and shafts for the oil pump but not the whole unit like it was sold in the USA. Interesting.

Fits L24. That part is listed in the 1972 Nissan Fairlady Z parts catalog along with the oil cooler optional parts. It is also listed in the 1974 Datsun (NMC in USA) Competition Parts catalog. I also have it in a 1970 Datsun Competition Parts bulletin for $19.41. In today's value, that's about $120.

Sold it for $450, eh?

Were you the one who sent me the PM? I haven't the mental capacity to attach pictures to a PM evidently. Minilites were a very popular wheel at the time; would be surprised if these are not Minilites. I took the picture on the track; Paul Whiteman Trophy Races, SCCA National, Daytona 1971. The other one is the American Road Race of Champions, Road Atlanta, 1971.

Hey! I saw you post this on Facebook and thought; "shame on you, Mike, for not telling us that this is the start of the Suzuka 1000km race in 1970". Here's Nishino Fujita.

The wheels are called 'slots' and they come in many different variations. Slots were very popular at the time and many dealers sold them as aftermarket options. They were never supplied from Nissan. My slots are 14"x6" Japanese aluminum and the lug bolts have the washers press-fitted. I have center caps but they fall off all the time. I would want to say that slots are probably the most common Z wheel. You should be able to find a set in decent condition for a reasonable price. Always beware of people selling bent or broken wheels.