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Chris, the ones you pictured are fogs, not driving. The heavily fluted lenses widen out the beam. Driving light lenses are very mildly patterned, if at all.Yours look like Datsun-badged Bosch lights to me.

I too use Photoshop Elements. Great tool for the price. GIMP is great, but like full-bore Photoshop, the learning curve is steep. Elements is much simpler.

I believe MSA gets the premium set from Zedd Findings.

Hi, Bob. Nice to see yet another Oregonian here! The early cars in other parts of the world could have fog lights as an option, but they were never offered on 240Zs here in the states. Escanlon (in Vancouver, WA) has one of the factory fog light switches, I believe. It went in the empty hole above the hazard switch on the early dashes.

No, that's either a BMW 1602 or 2002.

Am I missing something? I don't see any 510s. Are you maybe talking about the late-80's BMW E30 in the driveway?

It is impossible to say for certain, as the factory did not always (apparently) build the cars in numerical order. That said, the other cars listed on the IZCC register that have serial numbers close to and on either side of yours were all built in 11/72. So as a best guess, that's what I'd figure.

Those are aftermarket 13" junk, nothing at all to do with Zs.

Very nice! Good to see it go to someone who seems to appreciate it for what it is. I feel confident that it will be returned to its former glory.

It's not my style, but I can see the attraction. But do remember that when the time comes (eventually) when you have to sell the car, that paint job will likely hurt the marketability of the car severely. It may be VERY hard to find a buyer.

Looking at a trade for yet another set of vintage rims. Who has a set of these? I haven't seen these in person yet, so I can't measure them. I know they're 14x5.5", but I'd like to know what size the center hole is so I can determine center caps for them. Also would love to see pics of these on a Z, especially red ones!

I know which you mean, Ron. A medium-large black oval tip. I used to run German-made Leistritz SportSound exhausts on several of my VWs mostly because they used that same tip as the 944. Sounded great too. But I'm not sure how a chrome or stainless version of that would look on a Z.

The timing of your distributor is not set, then. The timing adjustment is by pivoting the distributor on the base pedestal. When you simply bolted it up, you got lucky. The shaft index simply controls rotor position, not timing.

Yup. Doesn't matter which head casting, if you have big valves you'll need to notch the block, unless your block is already bored oversize.

So all you did was bolt it on? You haven't checked or set the timing at all?

According to my CD, yes. Shows from 08/76 on.

The bracket on the bottom of your strut bolts to a similar shaped tab on the body of the car. It should be on the left side, about halfway up the opening. It may have been removed or broken off of your car.

Well, Zs have 7 gauges, but only 5 holes in the dash. Sure the clock can go, but what else are you willing to lose? Plus you'd lose the turn signal indicators as well as the brake and high beam warning lights.

Ronnie, are both vent systems totally functional? Hatch - Do you have the louvered interior trim panel? All the vent stuff inside the hatch is good? Pillars - Do the interior plastic trim panels have holes near the vents, as if there were a speaker up there?

Ahhh! I'd never thought of that, Bruce. But it sure makes a whole lot of sense! Otherwise why would new ones off the shelf be bad. Good idea!

Is it your intention to rebuild it anyway? If not, I'd be leery of starting ann engine that has been sitting that long - if there's any rust in the pores, you will be REQUIRED to rebuild it.

How long has the engine been sitting?

Yup, BTDT. See post #38 on page 3 of this same thread for pictures.

That's not all that easy to answer. Transition occurred at some time during 1/70 for the most part - the first approximately 20,000 cars being considered so-called "Series 1" here in the US. But there is no hard and fast cut date, as hinted at by this thread.

No kidding! I don't think I can quite imagine the feeling to have that car on the road again after all this time. There was a time when I was kicking myself for not buying it from you a while back, but in hindsight I'm kinda glad I didn't - because this way we both have nice cars.Yours will be a great addition for the Oregon Z cruises this Summer!