Lurch’s ‘Early Girl’ 240Z!

[RB30X]

SS is cheap if you get it from a distributor not an exhaust shop with their mark ups. $55 got me a meter of 3" and a meter of 4" the other day

[C.A.R.]

SS is cheap if you get it from a distributor not an exhaust shop with their mark ups. $55 got me a meter of 3" and a meter of 4" the other day

Not for mandrel bends though...

[benny]

hey lurchos,

 

looking good, one question...

 

If you run your gauge speed using GPS what happens when you go through a tunnel??

 

 

[C.A.R.]

If you run your gauge speed using GPS what happens when you go through a tunnel??

Thanks mate.

Well I would expect the signal to drop out - hence why I haven't used it in GPS mode yet

[620Z]

Well Lurch you have been busy. Glad to hear you are straight in to it and keeping the beast on the road.

Always feels better knowing you have made the odd improvement here and there.

[smugley]

G'day Lurch

It was a number of years ago now but I was talking to Gordon about rebuilding an engine for #HS 300415 which I owned at the time and he suggested to go and take a look at a car in Kensington owned by an old bloke called Harry Thorpe. He had just sold his house and was moving to the country so was considering selling the car as well  . Mine needed tons of work and this one would be a get in drive sort of car according to Gordon .

So I went and met Harry (very nice old bloke ) and inspecked the car .It needed a fair bit of work as you have detailed in this post and his asking price at the time was very high for the condition of the car . I passed on the car , My loss your gain (some years later ).

In the end I brought a 1965 Australian delivered 911 for only a few more $ K than Harry wanted and sold my 240z to Rex Carr not long after he crashed his at buller sprint so he could build up another .

Looks like he held on to his pride and joy for as long as he could but sounds like its in good hands now .

Cheers

[C.A.R.]

Thanks for that Smugley - it all adds to the history of the 240

 

Today was a special, as I drove the 'Early Girl' down to visit Harry & Dawn - this was the first tine he'd seen it since I picked it up.

He was somewhat blown away by the amount of work I'd done to it & even more-so after I took him for a drive in it.

He couldn't get over how hard it went, as it never went this well with the EFi on it...

Twas an excellent day & it was great to catch up with them both

[RB30X]

It good you can keep them involved in their old car. Didn't just run off with it and put an ironing board on the back and cover it in stickers.

[C.A.R.]

I took the opportunity to give the Zed a bit of a workout last Sunday, at our local car club Christmas break-up grass Motorkhana...

 

Jane on her first run:

 

No Zed should be pampered!

 

Me spotting the next cone:

 

Jane doing the final blind test ( )

 

 

 

 

[FLEXZED]

Mate

 

great pics , i agree all cars should be driven hard

 

pissed off i couldnt be there, maybe next year

 

Loui

 

[Zedman240®]

I'll have to bring down my zed with some old rally tyres fitted!! hahaha

[zzzzed]

nice goggles jane 

[madz]

Hahaha, Mick, all good fun, (except the mug shot...)

 

I was sh!ting myself in the blindfold event, I was shaking so much, my clutch leg was shaking so bad I stalled! But when I was navigator and Lurch driver, we did really well

 

Was good fun, and the 240z didnt disappoint! What a nifty machine! 

 

Jane 

[gav240z]

Thanks for that Smugley - it all adds to the history of the 240

 

Today was a special, as I drove the 'Early Girl' down to visit Harry & Dawn - this was the first tine he'd seen it since I picked it up.

He was somewhat blown away by the amount of work I'd done to it & even more-so after I took him for a drive in it.

He couldn't get over how hard it went, as it never went this well with the EFi on it...

Twas an excellent day & it was great to catch up with them both

 

 

That photo makes me happy. It's good to see someone who enjoyed the car for so long has given it to someone who will continue to enjoy the car for just as long.

[bluerat]

Great to see Lurch, grass Khana's are are huge amount of fun!! Who's is the 124S coupe? I have some action photo's of it in Rally Tas or Targa, or both from years gone by...

[C.A.R.]

Thanks Hodgo!

The 124AC has been a very heavily companied car.

It's owned & driven by Steve Schmidt - he lives 10mins down the road from me.

 

And the Zed out the front of my new place:

 

[MaygZ]

Nice roses.

 

Are they a local igneous rock for your border?

 

Couch??  Speads too fast.  Too much work.  Dig it up and reploace it with bent or santianta.

 

Oh yeah, the girl looks happy in her new digs.

[lightmaster240z]

Yea The ice burg are looking very nice at this time of the year and so dose the old girl  

[Toecutter]

Nice roses.

 

Are they a local igneous rock for your border?

 

Couch??  Speads too fast.  Too much work.  Dig it up and reploace it with bent or santianta.

 

 

 

Some pics of the new place mate?

 

Sulio

[C.A.R.]

Terribly off topic, but here you go mate

 

 

 

 

 

 

A LOT has changed though. I'll upload updated photos soon.

[620Z]

Nice Lurch. Can you get a car down the side? I presume the garage is down the back so probably can at a squeeze.

[C.A.R.]

its a corner block mate, so i have side access.

[FLEXZED]

well done mate

 

its great to see the aussie dream come true

 

 

Loui

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[620Z]

Ah of course.

Well done looks good.

[NZeder]

Looks like a good size block. How large? room for the big shed one day?