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And many around here scoff at 10-15K project cars.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4054286/The-abandoned-Aston-Martin-s-worth-500-000-Rusting-car-left-middle-woods-set-sell-fortune.html Imagine a project car that costs more than your entire restoration x 5 .

If you like the Corolla he's selling it on eBay with some of his other stuff. Like over priced Ferrari Mondial rubbish . http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/V8-302-Ford-Powered-KE-55-Toyota-Corolla-Coupe-for-street-or-strip-/291988126171

Mikuni/Solex N44PHH-A11 carbs with 4 screw lids. The 2 photos on the right show the difference in lids between the earlier style (left) and later style (right).

Yeah I was thinking about doing something similar a while ago, nothing more frustrating than broken image references in a forum thread. Is your script based in Python or something else? Do you have to manually invoke it, or does it automatically scan new threads and index/cache images that are hosted remotely?

Well it was a pretty early 72 then. My 72 L24 is 078080 and is HS30 10552. So we can at least assume it was a lower number than that. Not often you find the original motor usually only the car and the motor is a mystery.

I'm afraid I have no idea where your old car is now. But perhaps another member may have seen it at some point? It's a small world here.

That looks like a Rare Spares part. In general the rare spares stuff is a thicker gauge steel than the original pieces. I've only really had experience fitting the door skins, they are ok, but the panel gap at the top of the door where it meets the upper part of the fender needs some tweaking to reduce the gap.

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/rockingham/engine-engine-parts-transmission/weber-carbs-solex-mikuni/1129233791 These looks like stock images, not the items for sale. 40 mm it says.

Here is a CarSales script so far. Using the command: python carsales.py Example URL: https://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/Datsun-240Z-1972/SSE-AD-4425052/?Cr=3 Produces the following (but for some reason only the first 6 images get pulled) - I think because additional images get dynamically pulled into the page - perhaps to speed up load times as you navigate through the gallery. So they are not present within the HTML source. carsales.txt

Well given how well things went when the seller listed it here. I'm guessing the car is not as it's presented perhaps?

I like it, nice old Engineering shop!

Any photos mate? I tried to buy this place last year, it sold for close to 1.2M which was too high for me to keep going. It would have been perfect, as it was already set up as a warehouse + home. Still pissed off about it. But that's life. Still Waiting for Godot in terms of property prices becoming more reasonable..

I think I saw the magazine it was featured in recently on eBay with the full spread. I don't know where that car is now, but if you can find the chassis ID I may have a record of it? It was a 73 model right?

Yes a 260z 2+2 has quite a lot of room for a Sports Coupe in the rear seats. Certainly more than many other cars. The FD RX-7 in Japan came with rear seats (export markets didn't) and for good reason. Check out a very young looking Keiichi Tsuchiya (at the 3 mins) mark demonstrate leg room in the back. Skip to 3 mins https://youtu.be/UvcwGkpyZJM?t=3m4s Full Video. At the last World Time Attack event in Sydney 2016 I walked past Tsuchiya and realised he's very short. I'm not tall but he was significantly shorter than I. You can see him just squeeze into the rear. The RX-8 on the other hand is much more like a 260z 2+2 plenty of head room and very comfortable in the rear for a sports car.

I haven't spent any time making a script for CarSales yet, but the process should be similar for existing ads. For historical however: It's tricky with CarSales because first you need to know what their URL structure was or is... going back a few years their old URLs were different. They have since updated them. If I have the URL of the old listing then sometimes I can use www.archive.org to retrieve a version of the page. I can often inspect the page for references to images etc.. in some cases I can "recover" the images that were used. But the success rate isn't great. Their URLs of images are often encoded in some way - which I'm not privy to yet (it could be a date stamp or some other ID). For example this listing. https://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/Datsun-240Z-1973/SSE-AD-4118194/?Cr=1 Where the AD ID is probably: SSE-AD-4118194 In that ad is a URL for an image: https://carsales.li.csnstatic.com/carsales/car/private/cp5416041899455671651.jpg?aspect=FitWithinNoPad&height=700&width=1050 Where the image ID is : cp5416041899455671651.jpg so far I can't see any patterns between the 2. It's best to capture the information up front (when the listing is live) if possible. For comparison you can see this image was from HS30 00339: http://liveimages.carsales.com.au/carsales/car/private/cp5422458402558076924.jpg?height=700&aspect=FitWithinNoPad&width=1050 Which is still live and accessible on CarSales. If you could determine a correlation between Ad ID and the image ID you could probably figure out a way to quickly find images that are still hosted. This isn't directly related but if you watch the video here (which I recommend): You can see a brute force way of finding images could be to cycle through various combinations and permutations (interestingly they are using a Python script for a lot of this work using booking ref. for Airlines - you'll never InstaGram or post photos of your boarding pass online again!). http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/10/14226034/instagram-boarding-pass-security-problem-bad-idea 1 of the reasons I was looking at developing such scripts is to store historical data going forward so we don't run into these problems later where we can't find images or old listings. There are various sites around the web that try and track old eBay listings, but I've never had much success with them, as they are not really specifically oriented toward classic car listings - rather any kind of listing. I know when looking at Real Estate I often try and find old listings and information on what a property looked like before. In a similar way I think there is a market for finding information on used cars that have been listed in the past. For the same reason I think that the Early Girl Bingo thread is so popular, people are interested in archived listings especially for special or unique cars. But perhaps getting ahead of myself here..small steps first.

In my experience Gumtree and eBay don't really remove the images. So they can last a long time! CarSales is another where the ad is pulled but the images are actively available on the server for a long time afterwards (sometimes years later). But you are correct a more ideal solution would be to pull the images, ad information and store it locally (like an Internet Archive) for posterity. A tool like this with stored old ads from various sites would have made the Early Girl Bingo thread a lot easier to compile that's for sure! There is a lot that could be done here, this is just a really basic start. Just trying to get a bit better at Python and programming in general. I'm not a brilliant programmer by any stretch of the imagination.

You know the routine, photos please.

So this will only appeal to a small subset of folks here. But often when looking at a Gumtree ad I have to manually go through and collect all the image URLs and copy them here. Gumtree has no API to make requests to and retrieve data from, so instead I've created a very basic script to help retrieve these URLs and put them in BBcode format quickly. How it works? I've uploaded a file called gumtree.txt you'll need to rename it to gumtree.py NB: You'll need to install the libraries: Requests http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/install/#install BeautifulSoup https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ Take the following URL: http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/townsville/cars-vans-utes/1972-datsun-240z-coupe/1135792440 Using the command: python gumtree.py The python script will read the contents of the webpage and return all the images for that specific listing in a nice list compatible with the forum software. I just copy paste that result below and bob's your tea pot. I'm not sure how much time I'll get but I may expand this to copy other information such as the ad text, price, location, and other URLs like eBay etc.. Taking it to the next level, in a similar way to how Youtube links works and automatically insert the video for you, simply copying / pasting a Gumtree URL, eBay URL, Bring A Trailer etc.. would post the ad information here with images description etc.. with no work on your part. Or even better capture images at a specific URL and store them (in case they go missing later eg: Craigslist). gumtree.txt

Depends if you want 40mm or 44mm. I find 40's all the time, and often at cheap prices especially if they were off a Toyota, but 44's are difficult to find at relatively modest prices. The set above were mint, so not surprised they cost $4k. Back about 10 years ago I bought a set of 44's from the US by the time they arrived in Australia they cost me just shy of $1,000 AUD. Prices have gone up along with the values of these cars. If you are not concerned with "period correct" parts there are other options like fuel injected throttle bodies etc.. or you could look at Webers, OERs (which take weber jets) etc.. but I just happen to like having Mikuni/Solex carbs on my S30Z's. I've started to document the different types here: http://www.viczcar.com/forum/topic/15654-mikuni-carburettor-id-thread-phh/

Skyline History.

HS30 00291 Found in QLD, another early 70 model. Kingaroy Queensland https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheZGang/permalink/1233546486680487/ El Rancho is the panel beating business. https://www.facebook.com/brad.sellick.9 Was previously on Gumtree with no photos. http://www.viczcar.com/forum/topic/1924-cars-for-sale-3rd-party-sites-ebay-carsales-etc/page-232

Try Yahoo! Auctions I see them come up from time to time on there.

It looks like this car was sold, then bought and re-listed for sale by a different owner at $42k. http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/terrigal/cars-vans-utes/datsun-240z/1135656397 New photos and new location. I think chassis is HS30 102367

I'm going to rename this thread to S30Z literature and articles or something... Here's a few more articles. All The Tokyo Auto Salon Datsun That's Fit To Print http://jalopnik.com/all-the-tokyo-auto-salon-datsun-thats-fit-to-print-1791219444 This Couple Drove From Ireland To Romania In Their 280Z To Be Married http://petrolicious.com/this-couple-drove-from-ireland-to-romania-in-their-280z-to-be-married

Yeah I noticed that's what Locky has done in Warragul. Only problem with corner blocks is that they often appeal to developers for sub-division.