The 240 collection

[satrat z]

Hey guys,

Just thought I would share a few photos of my last 6 months work on one of the 240's.  It is a 71 that I bought mid 2012 that was excellent mechanical wise, totally stock except for springs, shocks and rims but was in need of a back to metal respray.

After approaching a few panel beaters/spray painters here in Coffs Hbr I finally found the perfect, "old school" very meticulous man for the job at a businees called Automotive Rust Busters.  Most days he has to deal with the result of poor previous repairs that have rusted out etc so he knows the proper way to do things.  After seeing his previous resprays on Porsches and some other old Australian classics  I took the 71 zed in started stripping down the panels back to metal and prepping them for the panel work.  Six months later of part time work allowing for me to do all the time consuming prep etc in my time off and we rolled her out of the spray booth and bought her home for putting back together.

I had previously ordered a bunch of parts for the interior and rubbers etc from MSA for the other Z's so it was great having all the new parts ready to bolt on. There is nothing worse than having a newly sprayed car and putting on old rubbers and badges etc!

The other 240's in the photo's are part of a collection I started a few years ago after wanting to relive my younger years, teaching my wife to drive 20 years ago in our 240z and then keeping it for 5 years as our everyday driver, kicking myself now for selling it but needed a bigger car at the time.

The orange 240 is a 1970, build number 00329 the other red and silver ones are both 73's.

The orange one , I have fitted an SWM L28 street motor with triple 45 webers, i had asked Stew for a driveable torquey pump fuel engine and thats exactly what he built. After deciding the original box wasn't going to last long I swapped it out for an S14 box and did the diff move back to allow for the longer box.

My plan is to build the silver 240 up into a track/targa car, my wife and I camped up at the Morgan Park track to watch the super sprint series which got me all enthused to get out on the track.  So the next project is to weld a cage in and order some bits from AZC, the car will be a bit of work in progress during the race season as I don't have the time or money to build a quick car in one hit, so I will get out there and hopefully just have some fun and improve the car as we go along.

The other red one I plan to do a back to metal rebuild again, it was originally Kalahari tan but would like to spray it Datsun white.

Hmmmm just tried to attach some photos but the site won't let me because of the 256kb limit per photo, not really computer smart so will have to try and resize the photos and post later! Sorry.

[dat240z]

What a tease. A picture speaks a thousand words........Sounds good though

[Zedman240®]

I can picture a shed full of zeds... pics help though!! well done