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This came in my mail today and I could not believe it. The legend goes on in red and black… :love:

like to add one type of car the 240ZG,...... that means YOU Alan!!:love: Sign up!

Hi guys, Sorry to brake in but I counted at least three European members. And those guys have to visit this thread!!:tapemouth http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9326

Hi everybody, After seeing the cyclists doing their work during the Tour the France! This idea came up. The plan called “Tour the France by Z”. The first idea was to go round France totally but that was too much. Now we have an alternative. The date: get together Friday evening May 21, spend the weekend with our Swiss Z friends who are holding a meeting in Interlaken. The following week we will drive southwards in the direction of Cannes/Nice. Using only small roads, ‘over’ the Alps, through little villages. A really great sight-seeing tour. Drive, eat and live like a Frenchman - that is our goal! Overnight, we can stay in a lovely village hotel or on a camping site. The entrance is set for: Fairlady’s SPL311 / SPL311 Fairlady’s SR311 / SRL311 Datsun 240Z Datsun 260Z (2+2) Datsun 280Z (2+2) What do you think off this plan? You've got a week to spare in May? Join us!

Hi all, Just found a very small video from a dragster Z, Awesome.:tapemouth http://www.kiwidragracing.com/multimedia/9march03/datsun_240z.mpg

I see what you mean but I think they are the wide ones! And… you could always ask

To make it clear as he possible can to sell it quick?? As you see, he mentioned “all models W from wide, casting S12” These are the ones you are looking for believe me 1 NEW PAIR FRONT DISC BRAKE CALIPERS FITS TOYOTA: 1985-87 4 RUNNER...ALL MODELS; 1975-89 LANDCRUISER...ALL MODELS; 1986-87 PICKUP...ALL MODELS W/ VENTED FRONT ROTORS // CASTING# S12-8 // LIST PRICE = $195 EACH! // REPLACE YOUR RUSTED OR FROZEN CALIPERS // NO RESERVE !

seen on eBay go for it mates!! http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3553398927 I've got my self she is great!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=33563&item=2434001976

Hi Ben, What is light and what is dark? Personally, your blue Z is ‘dark’. White, yellow and silver are light colours and at those cars chrome will not show up as on the darker ones. Like blue, red, green, black and so on.

No I was only kidding; I brought my own laughs with me as you could see.:classic: I tried to get some overwhelming response but unfortunately, it is only us three. The next time I meet Mehta I will ask him. Maybe one time I climb my pen and write the man?? We have to find more documentation otherwise, we stick in the Bandama mud. Just like today; I am helping Nissan Netherlands with there exposition of the 350Z. They came up with three or four books full of newspaper articles from that time. I already mailed the girl after this is all done I like to have a second look. You never can tell!!

I would vote for the GOOD friend or a welding shop. I cannot weld too, and I am certainly not going to learn for just those small things. We as hobbyists, we are looking up to this rust as to climbing a mountain. For a ‘ordinary’ welder or a person who does it often it is a piece of cake. Lunch time job!! It amazes me always when I see an American floor, you know why? Always without rubber plugs. What would be worse; the water coming as flood through the holes. And does not go away that easily. OR a little water from wet shoes etc??

I can not say much about this statement but already back in the ‘72 Acropolis rally Mehta and Easter drove a 240Z without ANY Datsun sign???? See picture. This was One year before the Bandama rally, so why not a blue one???

I had hopes Rolf would suggest one thing or two after the weekend. However, he did not so now we can easily say the black and white picture is from Raudet and the blue one is from Metha. With no contra analysis, it is hereby final! ROFL

Alan, Do not mix up these two stories! Quote above is from the 1972 rallye. Raudet is driving in '72 >unfortunately perhaps your picture? As the website claims The blue one is driving at the ’73 perhaps by Mehta???????????? I'm going to sleep

The continuation of the course, which connects Abidjan to Bouaké, proves to be a new martyrdom. The track is initially particularly battered; of high grasses camouflage the many traps of them. Further, it improves but is transformed into corrugated sheet. To limit the vibrations, the cars slip by around 160 km/h. Many competitors are embourbent in the first kilometres, of which Chasseuil on Datsun which will not be able to get clear. Nicolas gives up because of a breaking of steering gear box. Vanson enlarges the list of the abandonment’s at Renault. Peugeot loses Beltoise (breaking of driving support). As for Mikkola, it avoids on several occasions the setting except race because of an intervention on its car little before the departure of Abidjan, which made him lose 40 min. The prototype DS of Neyret faitmerveille on ground breaking at the beginning of Abidjan, Neyret knows a beautiful fright: by error, one pours a water jerry can to him in his tank! It will be able to continue, but must stop every 100 km to clean its candles, wastes time, and thus takes a 63 minutes penalty. It loses its first place with the profit of Mehta, but remains in fight for the final victory, because it has only five minutes of delay on the pilot of Datsun. Larrousse has great problems to join Bouaké. It starts by breaking a rod of direction then break down from alternator. Finally, it avoids the setting except race by the fact that this one... was lengthened three hours! Indeed, without this arrangement, only Neyret, Mehta, Fall, Mikkola and Raudet, are five competitors, could have continued! Bochnicek, Garlet, Karam, Larrousse, Claudine Trautmann, and Glass-maker are thus fished out. Rescapés are not any more but eleven! We are not whereas with the third of the test, a little less 1200km were traversed. The Citroen disappear In the stage Bouaké-DuékouéL' following stage, Bouaké - Duékoué, does not save obviously mechanics. The competitors leave the bush and cross a tortuous, piégeuse savanna. The track is perforated, crossed by bleedings or fords. The hecatomb continues. Bochnicek and Garlet on Citroen DS 23 know mechanical concern, Mikkola (Peugeot 504) breakage its suspension front. Just like Neyret (Citroen DS prototype) which, of end of force, thinks of giving up. But its team-member, Terramorsi, motivated in two, succeeds in clogging the escape of hydraulic fluid, after two hours of efforts. Mow! The crew accumulated too much delay and arrives except times at Duékoué, after 800 kilometers without suspension! Larrousse throws sponge, driving support broken. As for Glass-maker (Renault 16), his cylinder head gasket returns the heart following a breakdown of water pump. Claudine Trautmann (Renault 16), victim of many punctures, is put except race... for five small minutes! Raudet (Datsun), except race also, however decides to him to continue, but it breaks little time after its gearbox. They are only three with to have arrived within the times, after 2300km traversed. Mehta (Datsun) is classified first in front of Fall (Peugeot) with 1h04 and Karam (Datsun) with 2h43.Raudet, author of an excellent course, is found with a failing transmission, causes its setting except race then of its final adoption Despite everything its experiment, Mehta will not come to end from this Bandama 72, literally infaisableDevant so many difficulties, which was to arrive, arrived! The following stage, Duékoué - Daloa, are fatal with the rescapés last, which know all their batch of mechanical concern or galère. Karam gives up. Mehta takes advance, but enlise in a mud pit. Fall arrives on the spot. The two crews succeed in extracting Datsun. That made more than 28 hours that Fall and Mehta lead almost without stopping. In the light of the headlights, the two cars progress painfully. The two crews help each other. They arrive together at Tabou, about midnight, with already... nearly twelve hours of delay! They are not at the end of their sorrows: a violent one storm bursts. The track is nothing any more but one immense mud pit. They continue thus during nearly three hours. Tired, and knowing that nobody any more will arrive at the end of the stage in times, Mehta prefers to stop to sleep before joining Daloa. Fall him is resigned and traversed the last 300 kilometres which separate it from the arrival of the stage, where nobody any more does not await it! The delay is too significant. The police chiefs left... Epilogue: The rally was thus found without competitor, whereas a third of the course still remained to be made!!! Vis-a-vis this exceptional situation, that to make? Wouldn't it be worth to better reward the last survivors, by taking for final classification the arrival with Duékoué? Especially when the accomplished human effort is carried out, because in addition to tiredness inherent in this type of test, the competitors moreover had to wipe violent one storms, thing rare at this season. It would not be the first time that a test would not go in its term, but that a classification would be established. One remembers a Turn of Corsica, in 1961, where similar case had ariseeed, following a snowstorm. Finally, the organizers decided anything to ratify whole! No prize list was established. The fourth edition of Bandama thus finishes in fish tail. It is also one consent of failure on behalf of the organization, which with too much wanting to exceed East African Safari rally ended up establishing a literally unfeasible course. In spite of that, extremely of a growing fame, Bandama was essential like a test headlight of the African continent. Moreover, the Côte d ‘Ivoire rally will integrate the championship of the world in 19 *** TRANSLATION ENDS HERE ***78 et ce jusqu'en 1992.

The rally of Bandama 1972 At the beginning of the Seventies, the African rallies are in full rise. East African Safari is already legendary. There remains the African rally most outstanding. Other rallies become extensive, like the rally of Morocco, that of New Caledonia or of South Africa Created in 1969, the rally of the Bandama-Marathon of the Côte d ‘Ivoire clearly seeks to compete with its model, East African Safari. The course of the edition 1972 is impressive. It consists of no special test. But the competitors must traverse the various stages at a mean velocity of 100km/h, which is difficult to respect because of the rough ground. The times of setting except race do not leave much margin. At the beginning of this 4000 km long test, one finds 43 crews. Several manufacturers are committed. Initially Peugeot, with ten prepared cars including four 504 with Sochaux for Beltoise, Fall, Counter, and Mikkola and one 304 for P. Palayer. Renault is not remains about it with eight R16TS allotted Gamet, Mons, to Nicolas, B Palayer, Reignier, Claudine Trautmann, Vanson and Verrier. The Citroen team as for it dispatches a prototype DS cut for Neyret (victorious of the preceding edition) whereas Bochnicek and Garlet have DS23 provided by the importer. Renault provided a large effort while not engaging less than eight R16TS Henri Pescarolo and Johnny Rives on Chrysler 180 face with these powerful French teams Datsun are armed best. Raudet and Sausset are engaged on 240Z. But especially, the factory engages officially two 1600SSS for Larrouse and Mehta, this last being a large specialist in East African Safari. In addition, local Chasseuil and three pilots among whom competitor Karam them also on 1600SSS. Chrysler (owner of Simca) is committed with two 180 for Pagani and Pescarolo and two 1100S controlled by Men from the Ivory Coast. In addition, let us announce the presence of Porsche 911S of Touroul. Course of the test: In order to establish the starting order, a prologue is organized. It is about a hill climb on beaten ground. Neyret on its half-compartment DS signs best time. Follow Touroul on Porsche and Mikkola on Peugeot. Neyret is satisfied, because it will be thus the first to be sprung, and will thus avoid being obstructed by the dust raised by cars preceding it. The first stages form a loop of 600 km on the basis of the surroundings of Abidjan and going back there. The first stage, Abidjan - Abengourou, starts with a very fast track. The test is of entry of play difficult, bus with heat, it is necessary to add the lack of visibility which had with dust. And in spite of that, the cars slip by to 120 - 130 km/h. This supported rate/rhythm, Porsche de Tourel will not have resisted a long time. It typed and broke an axle. It will not be able to continue. It is not only. For Regnier, the rally stops there: its R16 is on the roof! In Abengourou, only nine crews are in times, all the others are penalized! The tone is given. Mikkola carries out an excellent beginning of rallye Cela is not arranged in the second stage, Abengourou - Aboisso. The difficulty goes up of a notch. The competitors are inserted in the bush. The track narrows, skirts the border of Ghana. The night fell, which does not arrange the visibility, but it is necessary to continue at an intensive pace. The plate is severely reduced. The Chrysler 180 give up both, Pagani knowing a breakdown of battery and Pescarolo a breakage of fastener of suspension. Peugeot loses Guichet (engine failure) and P. Palayer (left). The 304 turned over of this last is struck by the 504 of Assef. Fortunately, nobody is wounded. At Renault, Gamet (breaking of the nose gear) and B Palayer (alternator) disappear, while Nicolas encounters difficulties with his clutch. On the whole, 18 teams throw sponge at the time of the first or the second stage. In Aboisso, nobody avoids the penalization. Neyret takes only 6 minutes and preserves the head at the general classification. Behind him, Mikkola limits the damage with 8 minutes, while Larrousse bails out 11 minutes. Behind, Chasseuil, Bochnicek, Mehta, Fall and Beltoise bail out from 21 to 27 minutes of penalty. Insufficiently prepared, Renault disappear the ones after the others

Hi guys, Don’t we have fun??? I received this poster, after waiting for a week! I had to go to work but wanted to let you know what I received!! First some data. Rolf, you are right about the poster it came from the magazine Rallye Racing February 1974. The story is of the rallye 28-30 December 1973. This will not say the poster is of this rallye but I suspect it is a ’73 participant, because the works 1800SSS at an other picture has the same start number layout . I also suspected this was the only Z taken part at the rallye……so it had to be Mehta and Billstram. However, as Alan suggest it could be a sneaky privateer! Indeed the mirrors are different; on the blue none, at Alan’s at least one. The additional spot lamps are not correct. The cowcatcher shape, drivers side, is not the same: at the blue there’s a curve, Alan’s is square. In addition, the blue one is thicker. The stickers at the bonnet have a huge difference; the blue has a big round white one and Alan’s has two small ones right and left and something behind the spot lamps?? Rolf mentioned a French entry, could be thru because the headlamps are typical yellow!! It’s hard to tell if the car has works wheels, can’t see. It sure has the large bottom plate. Just went for a search on bandama and look what I found http://www.team-frl.com/retro/retro6.html Amazing is Alan’s picture at this site, claiming it’s Raudet!!???><%%$:tapemouth

Hi all, Great news. I just received this morning a poster (A3) format, from the only rally Z participated in the rally. Driver was Shekhar Mehta and navigator Claes Billstam. They did not finish unfortunately. Look at the strange Cibie Porsche lamps at the bonnet and the incredible ‘cowcatcher’…

Thanks Jon, If Alan did not send the pictures of the real stuff, I probably bought the J plate. Now I can see the difference and I like to go for almost original. ‘Yours’ is missing a small horizontal line on top. It is a little weird how I work because a lot of people certainly do not know how the works car was equipped or looked like.:stupid:

This is great Alan! I always though the plates were stamped out but this is easy to replicate. I had my thoughts about the plate because if you drive on an island (Japan) you do not need one so therefore they must be hard to get. Some ‘work-san’ got the order “make a country plate for our cars abroad” and so hi did with what was at hand.

here is a better one!