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HS30 00021

Dave Lyons of Hout Bay in Cape Town South Africa.

Originally owned by Nissan South Africa before being acquired by Dave Lyon's in the 90s.

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gav240z

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Hi Gavin,
As eluded to in my previous e mail, I can now let you know that HS30-00021 has arrived safely in the UK from its previous home in South Africa. After purchasing #21 directly from Nissan SA in the mid 1990’s, Dave Lyons decided to sell this very rare example and a deal was reached during the summer with a new UK owner.
As you’re aware, the car is 903 blue with a blue interior, although Nissan SA did fit the reclining type black seats which have been re covered at some points.
Here are some pictures for your records.

Kind Regards,

Richard Wardle.

HS30-H

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Nice car, but nowhere near being a "pre-production" example and that Graeme Hurst-penned magazine article includes so much to mislead and misinform that it should carry a government health warning. 

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gav240z

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I can't recall where I found the article now,  but I hear you're helping out with sourcing of parts etc.. on this new arrival? Does it appear to have been Blue/Blue combo originally?

19 minutes ago, HS30-H said:

Nice car, but nowhere near being a "pre-production" example and that Graeme Hurst-penned magazine article includes so much to mislead and misinform that it should carry a government health warning. 

 

HS30-H

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On 11/24/2020 at 9:45 AM, gav240z said:

I can't recall where I found the article now,  but I hear you're helping out with sourcing of parts etc.. on this new arrival? Does it appear to have been Blue/Blue combo originally?

 

I'm only involved by e-mail - indirectly, as I have no contact with the new owner - and mainly in giving my opinion on it (spec, production date etc etc). I'm certainly not sourcing any parts for it.

Have not seen the car in the metal.

HS30-H

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Unfortunately, all this "pre-production" type chit chat - despite being based on misapprehension and incomplete data - tends to stick. Basically, people *want* to believe it. They love it. It's romantic.

So you end up on the one hand with one-man sites like zhome.com in previous years insisting that NO examples of RHD 240Zs were made in 1969 (and were therefore - by inference - 'not part of the original design process') even though that is disproved by Nissan Shatai's own data, and on the other hand people who look at a low chassis serial number and can only imagine the production line as being some sort of sausage machine that, once switched on, pumped out cars at full pelt and could not be switched off. They also can't seem to get their heads around the simple fact that the various chassis prefixes each had their own set of chassis serial numbers, and were not mixed up like some kind of metallic omelette.

Grrrr...     

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