Bonkers Posted November 18, 2015 Posted November 18, 2015 Got a phone call from the neighbor today. Said my daughters body kit for her car had been delivered to his home by mistake. I knew he owned the car yard down the road and he knows I have a zed. He said If you want to come pick it up now, I will show you some of the zeds I have around here. Turns out he is not running the car yard any more and is interested in classic cars now days. He has some Z28's , rays and other yank tanks. But he has four S30's. Three are 280Z's from the USA and all California cars. One has a twin sun roof and a little rust, The other has a original finish and just needs a tidy up . The third is at the shop and has the injection removed. It was getting the carbs tuned so I did not see it.I believe he wants to move them on ,but I could not give him an idea what they may be worth here. They are all 2 seaters and one is auto and all are left hand drive. Anyone have some ballpark figures I could pass on? He also has what is called a Scarab. This is the genuine item of a 240Z (one with vents in the rear hatch) fitted and engineered for a chev V8 and done in the States when the Zed was first released . Very nice ,but it also is in original condition and needs a tidy up. I didn't have any thing to take photos with me at the time. But he will email some to me soon and at that point I will post them up . As I have never seen these cars in the flesh before so speak. It was a thrill. No I don,t believe he will part with the Scarab as he is a hard core V8 fan. Quote
Administrators gav240z Posted November 18, 2015 Administrators Posted November 18, 2015 280z 2 seaters are not exactly expensive in the US at the moment, you can still pick them up around $5k in relatively average shape. The cost is in importing them, the fact that they are LHD seems to put the majority of members here off also. Personally it wouldn't bother me all that much.. With a sunroof etc.. it's going to bring the values down. I'd say worth about $12k registered and on the road, compliance done etc.. Value as always is in the bodywork and lack of rust (fingers crossed). The Scarab doesn't really appeal to me personally, I think it possibly would to an enthusiast in the US but it was never a Nissan sanctioned thing, rather an aftermarket company modifying a 240z in the way that Shelby took an AC Cobra and stuffed a V8 under the hood. Ok so I guess it's kind of cool, but still not where my interest really lies with these cars. Quote
260DET Posted November 18, 2015 Posted November 18, 2015 Alternatively to doing them up for sale they may have a value as the basis for RHD conversions, otherwise in LHD they would be more for cruising than anything very sporty so that would limit their value. Quote
Mr Camouflage Posted November 18, 2015 Posted November 18, 2015 (edited) The Scarab is only valuable/collectable (in the US at least, and not that valuable compared to an original Z) if it was one of the numbered Scarab factory built cars. Scarab also sold a lot of V8 kits, body kits and badges for people to convert their car themselves. Everything you never wanted to know about them : http://www.classiczcars.com/topic/2298-datsun-scarab-info/ Edited November 18, 2015 by Mr Camouflage Quote
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