Alfadog

My (Australian) Z has no demister strips either. I believe they changed the design of the demister strips from verticle to horizontal mainly because horizontal demister strips will be more effective at demisting than the verticle strips, because of the air flow direction. Makes sense doesn't it? Oh and from a design perspective, verticle lines make things look tall, horizontal lines make things look wide... I'm not sure if they thought about it THAT much though

Ah, great to see another view Trex! Personally, I always appreciate a conflict of beliefs as it gives the rest of us who don't know as much about the topic both sides of the story. I would like to hear what you have to say about the Samuri name. But like Alan said I dont think the car he owns has anything to do with the topic. Oh and st. stephen, do yourself a favour and spend the extra 15,000 pounds and get a Miura! Like you, my dream car is a Miura. :love: I bet you watched the intro to 'The Italian Job' as many times as I did too

Nah that's not MP, hilarious nonetheless!!!!!

Yep - try what Chris said!!!!! Pull the cable HARD, you can't be gentle I've had this happen to me ..... oooh three times now! First I tried jacking it up, and I never got it that way. I think Enrique suggested to remove the bonnet to me also, but I really didn't want to do all that fiddling! So... I mentioned it to the mechanic when I took it in to get an engine tune up unfortunately they decided a screwdriver was teh best way to open it. Hmph. Next time it happened in the morning when I was going for a bit of a cruise up a mountain. Good old Datsun won't fail me, so it should be alright! Murphy's Law........................ I broke down up the mountain (clogged up fuel line) and couldn't even look at the engine to even try to find out what the problem was!! Got it towed home and the tow truck driver showed me what Chris suggested - popped open easily. Third time :cheeky: it was just last Tuesday. And as fate would have it, I was having a report made up on Thursday for someone who wanted one because he's interested in the car. They might have trouble checking the condition of the engine if they can't SEE the engine................. so I tried yanking the cable as hard as I could while having dad pushing hte bonnet... didn't work! So I took it to my new mechanic on Wednesday (the same day as the 240K was going in to get its water pump replaced (was leaky) and he did it and fixed it too so I dont think it will happen again. You say your bonnet cable is snapped - are you sure? Mine was not snapped but the outer tube came unattached from a little clip just next to the latch, so when you pull the cable it pulled everything, instead of just the inner cable. I forgot to ask how my 2nd mechanic openned the bonnet, I'll give him a ring next week and maybe he has a new way that might work for you? Good luck!

Fantastic photos - and the other cars aren't too shabby either!!!!!!!!

Hmmph... well I'm getting pictures sent to me frmo the owner of this car next week, I'll post some pictures for those who are interested. I knew you didn't really approve of the Samuris Alan, but now I know why doesn't sound too great - but you have to admit it's a pretty cool name. Does anyone have a different view of the Samuris?

My take on this is that this is a very old photo Sorry for my ignorance but what exactly was so special about the samuris? (i know, i know, shame on me)

That's brilliant !! ROFL ROFL

Mmmm.. not my idea of a best-in-the-show car, but yeah I can see it would certainly be impressive...

Mmm ok my 240Z has had that work done on it already, but teh 240K hasn't and I was just wondering... thanks

So, what's your daily driver?

hehehehe i thought you'd pick up on that... now the 260 2+2 may not be brilliant, but it certainly is worth a bit more than a 2+2 280zx well in my book anyway

A bit off-track but I need to ask it at some stage and why not hijack this topic ?? ROFL I have been told there is some way to modify the head/engine so it runs on unleaded... something about the valves perhaps? Is this so, and what is involved (ie how much money)? Lead replacement fuel is $$$ and is crap quality these days... if originality isn't such an issue transfering to unleaded might be an option

A certain teacher at my school was brilliant with old sayings (mostly Australian but lots of old British slang too) - he really cracked me up with some of them........ I'd love to have a vocab of little sayings like that, but I guess I was born 40 years to late btw Jerry, fantastic story, as usual!!! I hope you're keeping these in text files so you can bind them all together one day and make a book of short stories!

Congratulations George. It's a dream come true eh? And faster than you expected too

Ugh, that skippy ripoff you can blame on HOLLYWOOD! eeeesh I've only seen the trailer but seriously, SERIOUSLY, baaad movie :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:

My car is for sale, but it's in the bracket just below that one I live on the Gold Coast, but it really depends if you want to spend extra $$$ to get one that's perfect or keep the extra $$$ and get one that's a little rough around the edges If you want to spend more money ThatOzzyGuy's car is worth a look - very clean and original. Welcome to the club!!!

Youd need to find one in Japan or somewhere else, first... they didn't sell 2 seater 280ZX's in Australia as far as I know!

And we can see pictures........... ? (i bet it didnt have the stock bumpers)

I'm in for that, George! Actually friends and I do have plans for sjit box racing in a paddock with some $200 cars one day... i'll be sure to post pictures if we ever get around to it

Ahhhh great Enrique! Thanks heaps, now I will remember all about it due to the Bus story ROFL

oooooooh that sounds good. Afterfire. Cool.