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Went to a meet at a local cafe here in UK the other day and found myself parked next to car number 35 owner told me that it was destined for you guys but had the wrong papers so ended up here these two cars could have been in the same factory 45 years ago in japan and then re-united last week after all this time

 

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Went to a meet at a local cafe here in UK the other day and found myself parked next to car number 35 owner told me that it was destined for you guys but had the wrong papers so ended up here these two cars could have been in the same factory 45 years ago in japan and then re-united last week after all this time

 

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More pics!! :D

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Went to a meet at a local cafe here in UK the other day and found myself parked next to car number 35 owner told me that it was destined for you guys but had the wrong papers so ended up here these two cars could have been in the same factory 45 years ago in japan and then re-united last week after all this time

 

I often think about this kind of thing also. For example I own #150 and Locky (Lurch) owns #149 - I'm looking forward to getting them side by side in the not too distant future for a photo.

 

#35 was made just after the early rally cars which is kind of cool in itself.

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Thanks, I've added HS30 00068 to the first page post and included the photo we have and information regarding where it's now gone to.

 

*Edit as a side note I read through this entire thread again and noticed I haven't included all the cars we received details for... I will aim to do this soon. I haven't had much time to work on a database yet, other than pondering how I want to structure it and allow people to contribute to it via an interface.

I want to leverage the existing gallery, so make it possible for people to create albums for each car and have that tied to the database in some way.

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Photos of HS30 00036 have been added to the homepage. It was 907 Green in colour.

 

It was last seen / heard of in 1997 when it was sold by a member on here.

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Craig at wazcars has been busy updating his registry.

http://www.wazregister.com/index.php?title=View_ANZIS30_Register

 

Quite a few more chassis numbers on there now and I managed to get photos of HS30 00060. What is becoming clear to me is that the early cars seem to have been painted all sorts of colours, unlike say HS30 00149, HS30 00150 and HS30 00151 which were all painted the same shade 920 Gold. Earlier cars seem to change colours for each car produced.

 

Perhaps giving more weight to the idea that they were demo cars and therefore were painted a spectrum of colours? Before Nissan switched to a more linear way of painting cars.

 

By the way 1 thing I've always wondered is if there is a way to dig out eBay auctions from their archives.

http://ebay.about.com/od/frequentlyaskedquestion1/f/faq_archived.htm

The link above suggests it's only possible for 3 months then you have to manually request information. We often have item IDs but I can no longer view the old auction, this would be incredibly useful if we could get access to old listings.

 

Anyone had experience requesting this information from eBay?

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HS30 00036 - Last seen in 1997 (sold by member dalee) - Registration was ZZ-04240 (Victoria - The Garden State Plates).

 

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HS30 00060 - Last seen on eBay Tasmania. (Circa 2006)

 

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HS30 00859 - Last spotted Cundletown NSW

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00036, 00162, 00208 & 00422 - listed on Z car shop – facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/708176415926972/photos/a.708183122592968.1073741827.708176415926972/875209845890294/?type=3&theater

 

00060 - listed on Z car shop – facebook page as "240Z Justin 1969/70 #60"

https://www.facebook.com/Z-shop-Melbourne-708176415926972/?fref=ts - Sep 17 (2015) post

 

00859 - now being restored by AusZcar member 240Z_au

http://www.viczcar.com/forum/topic/13938-andrews-yellow-240z-sydney-australia/

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HS30-00219

 

I just spotted this eBay listing;

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Classic-Car-Mag-1998-1954-57-VW-Beetle-Mazda-RX3-Datsun-240Z-Lagonda-Rapier-Mini-/111821534695?hash=item1a091535e7:g:sToAAOSwrklVNJD6

(eBay item number:111821534695)

 

- which is for a copy of the May 1998 edition of "Australian Classic Car" magazine.

 

The listing includes a photo of pp.66-67, which is an article about HS30-00219. There is a picture of the car - albeit blatantly mirror reversed - presumably just so that it faces to the right.

The article states that the car was originally 'burnt orange' (Kalahari Tan?). It also contains the old 'designed by Goertz' furphy and some claimed production numbers.

 

This car is listed on the wazregister, but has not yet been listed on page 1 of this topic. I believe that this car still has the same owner, who is an AusZcar member, but I will leave it to him to claim it. 

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So I spoke with Dalee again and he told me what we thought was #36 was actually #310.

 

So HS30 00310 has been changed and HS30 00036 is still unknown..

 

This does however mean that HS30 00310 -> HS30 00319 were likely all 907 Green in colour though.

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Hi Gav, yes it's still bluish with a bit of black (replacement panels) and orange(rust) and I still own it. I will hopefully be on the run on the 21st but not in that, can't decide between the 260 or the 350, quality problem.

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Quite a few more chassis numbers on there now and I managed to get photos of HS30 00060. What is becoming clear to me is that the early cars seem to have been painted all sorts of colours, unlike say HS30 00149, HS30 00150 and HS30 00151 which were all painted the same shade 920 Gold. Earlier cars seem to change colours for each car produced.

 

Perhaps giving more weight to the idea that they were demo cars and therefore were painted a spectrum of colours? Before Nissan switched to a more linear way of painting cars.

 

 

Maybe I'm stating the obvious here, but don't forget that the production line - and especially the 'queue' of 'shells going through the painting process at any one time - was shared between 'HLS30', 'PS30', 'S30' and 'HS30' prefixed cars in the period you are talking about (roughly mid to late 1970).

 

It's clear that bodyshells were painted in same-colour batches, but each batch might contain a mixture of differently prefixed 'shells. Therefore you might well see consecutively-numbered body serial numbers for a particular prefix having different coloured paint.   

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So I spoke with Dalee again and he told me what we thought was #36 was actually #310.

 

So HS30 00310 has been changed and HS30 00036 is still unknown..

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According to the Z car shop, they have HS30-00036 AND HS30-00060 AND HS30-00162 AND HS30-00208 AND HS30-00422 at their workshop!!

 

00036, 00162, 00208 & 00422 - listed on Z car shop – facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/708176415926972/photos/a.708183122592968.1073741827.708176415926972/875209845890294/?type=3&theater

 

00060 - listed on Z car shop – facebook page as "240Z Justin 1969/70 #60"

https://www.facebook.com/Z-shop-Melbourne-708176415926972/?fref=ts - Sep 17 (2015) post

 

00859 - now being restored by AusZcar member 240Z_au

http://www.viczcar.com/forum/topic/13938-andrews-yellow-240z-sydney-australia/

 

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First post updated with more photos and cars yay!

 

I'm surprised just how many early ones are coming to light. I thought we had a lot less if I'm honest. Although many are in a state of half finished restoration.

 

@Ian / GongZ - 00036 are you sure it's a 36 and not a 33?

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Hi Gav this thread is just getting better and better thanks for your efforts and all those posting ,

 

btw you have missed (easy to do) a few photos of cars for the first post, which are listed in this thread on posts which I have numbered and the relevant cars listed 

 

post #86 re car number HS#521

#96 re HS#418

#100 re HS#595

#101 re HS#299

#117 re HS#982

#125 re HS#532

 

I hope this is of help to make post #1 even more awesome :) and 8)

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@Ian / GongZ - 00036 are you sure it's a 36 and not a 33?

@Gavin / gav240z - no, I am not sure - hopefully the Z-shop will answer your query on facebook to clarify.

 

A couple of other comments;

On Page 1 - HS30 00160 (Member Magnus) - Photo link - the link takes you to Page 1 (circular link)

 

Curtis posted about 00213 on Page 8 of this topic http://www.viczcar.com/forum/topic/13773-early-girl-bingo-with-photos/page-8 - posts #149 & #150 (LOL @ the coincidental numbers - i.e. Lurch & Gav's cars)

 

The current version of Craig's WA register, has the the following cars, which are not shown on Page 1;

(Note - I have included the date when they were added to the register - in case you think they are too old to still be relevant)

 

00086 - Added: November 19, 2013
00155 - Added: May 14, 2001 (Details from IZCC register.)
00209 - Added: May 11, 2008
00212 - Added: September 19, 2009
00217 - Added: June 12, 2007
00280 - Added: June 12, 2005
00293 - (includes photo) Added: March 2, 2005
00296 - (includes photo) Added: November 5, 2007 
00300 - Added: February 14, 2010 
00306 - Added: May 26, 2009 
00308 - Added: November 28, 2014 
00316 - Added: May 5, 2009 
00317 - (includes photo) Added: September 19, 2015
00330 - Added: October 14, 2009 
00373 - (includes photo) Added: December 18, 2007 
00379 - (includes photo) Added: June 18, 2007 
00696 - Added: December 17, 2005 
 
The following cars are not listed in numerical order – i.e. shown after 00696;
00269 - Added: January 2, 2009 
00352 – (NZ) Added: January 5, 2005 
00618 - Added: January 6, 2010 
00682 - Added: January 12, 2005 
00689 - Added: April 24, 2007 
00692 - Added: January 10, 2005 
00707 - Added: February 7, 2007 
00785 - Added: February 19, 2005 
00794 - Added: September 13, 2005 
00803 - Added: September 11, 2015 
00821 - Added: March 21, 2007 
00828 - Added: May 30, 2005 
00888 - Added: September 20, 2012 
00908 - Added: January 10, 2007 
00909 - Added: December 7, 2012 
00958 - Added: February 24, 2006 

 

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