UNIQUECARS Magazine “Z Story: Legend Turns 50”

Reddog · November 16, 2019

The latest edition of UNIQUECARS (has the Barbados Green SLR5000 on the cover) has a very nice 17 page all clout article covering the 50th anniversary of the Zed.

Features two very nicely sorted restored 240Z’s - Silver ‘73 owned by Brad Twyning and Green early ‘70 owned by John Wakeling (Forum members?). Lovely examples in my humble opinion.

Really nice photography in my humble opinion and knowledgeable write ups, usual ‘Checklist Stuff” covering:

Body & Chasiss. Engine & Transmission. Suspension & Brakes. Interior & Electrics. Also good little side articles with photo’s of Zed bits and pieces.

Also 4 pages of ‘ZEDFEST 2019’ Photos.

Cheers, Rod.

Riceburner · November 17, 2019

Thanks for the tip, grabbed a copy today!

lightmaster240z · November 17, 2019

Must buy that for my next big trip

boyblunda · November 20, 2019

Great spread and two very nice examples of the S30 highlighted in the article.

The one disappointment in the article was the perpetuation of the Goertz myth. This has been a sore thumb in the records of Datsun S30 history for decades and has been comprehensively addressed on other sites. It is a little frustrating that the research done for a recent book published in Australia and in articles such as this continue to fall back on the old articles of times gone by.

For those that want to read into this a little more you search "Goertz Myth" on ClassicZ and there is some discussion of same on this site after a book was published by an Australian motoring historian, but I cannot find it just now.

Otherwise, great article and good to see the S30 given such prominence in its 50th year.

Edited November 21, 2019 by boyblunda

csp-311 · November 21, 2019

I too have had to delve into the Geortz side of things whilst researching for my CSP311 website. You can read some here and more with the A550X development history tab on my site;

https://csp311.net/csp311-design-myth-csp311デザイン神話/

Pity this myth hasn't died out yet (I like a few others are trying to dispell this)

gav240z · November 24, 2019

On 11/16/2019 at 12:39 PM, Reddog said:

The latest edition of UNIQUECARS (has the Barbados Green SLR5000 on the cover) has a very nice 17 page all clout article covering the 50th anniversary of the Zed.

FFS, it's 50 years of Z and they can't even bring it upon themselves to put them on the front cover. Seriously automotive journalists still treat the Z like a second class product. Wankers the lot of em'. No wonder I haven't bought their magazine in 20 years.