dspillman

April 1970

never know when a September/October 69 dated glass may pop up!!??

What are the window dates?

Checking on my vin 740 shows the same apparently un-used black wire…… Looks clean as a whistle inside the protective sleeve…. Like the above mentioned previous picture Was folded for extended time …..

Update….. wound up stripping all the recently applied paint off 2446 due to ……well… a misunderstanding of the quality expected is a nice way to put it… New paint….better prep, better paint ….more controlled environment to apply has resulted in a more better virtually perfect paint reapplication. Have rebuilt, restored the quarter trim of both 51 and vin 2446 …. Polished up up few sets for future use. Vin 51 is in the same boat of unsatisfactory paint application….. soon to address that as well….. Cleaned up and flipped over the dash front cover trim, of 2446, I’m believing this is the true color “light greenish”… of both this part and possibly the correct hue of green for horns as well? Comments?

Series 2/3 oct. 71-73? Had never realized/noticed the highlighted in white, “defogger” and the placard of sorts for the driving lights, and more of a decal for the choke. Rear window “high lighted” when defogger was present. Parking lights label is quite thick, bringing surface up level with the lid itself. Appears these details were affixed to the more common export market console lid…… 2 different style parking lights label quite labels I can see. I thought kinda neat.. David

More items for the platers….seatbelts, lower control arms….headlight buckets….

Fuel filter bracket search turns into 5 brackets , morphs into seats

Pulling apart a set of early seats for blasting of metal revealed some really coarse grass/hair glued together in a square mat shape….. a quick sniff of this material reveals one of the sources of the “Z” smell that all are familiar with. I was surprised of the amount of rust underneath the seat covers both bottoms and backs

Quick walk around…. IMG_0955.mov

Turned out decent, really struggling with trash/ debris/ maybe sand in my shop. Need to partition off a clean area to spray….. 2446 will never win any awards, but she got that deep green look glowing strong!!!

More blocking/sanding……..

I’ve piddled around with SCCA in the ITS class since 2001… with a 240z Still competitive on most tight tracks. Converting to EP class as a 260. The other stuff is just a collection of this and that….had 37zs in my backyard at one time….. parsed down to a dozen or so now. A Z was my first car I purchased at 17 in 1982, Diseazd with them every since!!

Thanks!!! I love seeing other Zs and what has been done in the past, for inspiration of sorts to keep effort at high level…… Bumping into a fellow car/zguy from Greenville, sc “Clay Beacham” has triggered interest on my part to finally work on on few zs I’ve drug home over the last 35 years. I will post some pictures of progress on this car as well as the other 4 I’ll be working on. Your welcome to drop by anytime shops a mess. My oldest son claims I’m a prime candidate for adderall, but it’s awful late in livfe to try a different personality!! David

Pulled out this car after a long slumber. I purchased over 20 years ago in Orlando area from original purchaser family. Windshield shows last inspection in April 1981… Original windshield, 4 side windows dated 12/69. Hatch glass 3/70. Interior all there. Hoping to do a light refresh/clean of interior,drop the suspension, clean and paint. Engine needs to be rebuilt….”matching numbers”. Dog legs being replaced small rust area under drivers seat between alignment “flap” from rear body and floor 2”x2”. Green Tan…. My favorite combo… Wet blasting hood revealed surprisingly…. A virtually perfect hood..!!!!

Slowly……. Progress….

Some early “beauty” shots…. Taking shape, It’s looking more like a classy lady everyday. Thanks to Earl and Kim for their efforts!!

Pure luck

Couple more early correct pieces. That I’m not sure anybody would notice……. But, anyway, let’s make it right.

Would be cool to check out the horn dates on HS30-00004. Seems the horns are pretty darn accurate to production date, and aren’t generally swapped out as easily as other body parts/features David

Glad to decipher the horns date code to read S 10. October 69. Hoping that’s the real deal..

Thank you for that information Gavin, the auction site, or what I could see showed “passed”….. Roughly $130,000 US dollars…not too shabby.

Wondering what owners thought were responsible reserves? Opinions? hs30-00060 reached $66,000 American $$ hs30-00004 reached $116,000 US converted $$

Progress…..