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Remember you dont buy a z with your brain, you buy it with a mixture of your heart and your right foot! Just do it. What's the worse that can happen ? Take the easy way out and get a modern fridge of a car or get a classic. No brainer. About the car you linked to : Tiny bubbles of rust reappearing on wheel arches and bottom of door ... If you are going to use it as a daily then these will need to be cutout quick ( i know cos I have the exact same thing on my car ). Rust isnt a crime though. But if that rust is showing then it will be worse once stripped back to metal. A bargaining chip perhaps. Get it for 8 k and use the 2 k to get the rust taken out and buy everyone on the forum a beer for helping you into a Z.

Nice look . I wont say SIK in big letters and append fully to the front of it but.... Can I ask what the offset was for your 9.5 inch simmons so that they sat inside standard 2+2 guards ? I had been thinking 8 inch wide would be enough and got close to ordering if the taxman is nice to me but then I see your pics. Mike Ahh Kapiti coast grew up around those parts.

Why would I suggest a 2+2 when he could have a 2 seater sitting on a trailer with no doors.

Pretty sure that datsun/nissan built the z to be driven as a daily driver after all they do now. I daily drive mine. I like my car and want to use it as often as I can. Put aside the money you would spend on crap car for the eventual nicks and scrapes and enjoy your car. As soon as you mollycoddle it you'll become to scared to drive it and then the enjoyment leaves your life and you become a bitter/twisted and angry man intent on ruining as many peoples lives as you possibly can. You take this new found hatred for humanity and go to work at the tax office. Your time is now made up of figuratively bending people over and humping them and polishing your car. Where as if you continue to drive your car women will flock to you in droves , men will worship you as a god and little kids will aspire to be like you. I think you can make the correct choice here. My work is done.

Sco-aus : what I am meaning is this. Choice between the easier route ( 350/370z ) or the harder/costlier/painful route of restoring and owning a car you have always wanted. Not that I look down on the blokes who work hard to get the money to achieve 350/370z. Just that I assume if you are on this forum that you have a love of the 240/260 and therefore would do as much as you could to achieve the end goal. Which is a car that blokes are jealous of, blokettes get weak at the knees and old people lose control of their bowels when you pass by. Also I am a bit odd sometimes, I like to live in a fantasy world where angelina jolie likes fat balding hairy men who drive old datsuns and can burn water when they try to cook. If I didnt live in that fantasy I'd probably do something stupid like try to run the country while taking part in ironman contests wearing lycra.

I had this discussion recently with my bro who is a " bugger it get a 350 " person. My answer was : - Have you had fun restoring the car ? - When you drive your car do you stress less and feel just a little less frantic and more laidback ? - Do/did you have a sense of achievement and pride in the job or work that you did? - Do you enjoy the looks of jealousy from other blokes who were forced to buy some SUV/MPV/bus to haul the kids/wife/dog/groceries around in ? - Do you hug your car ? If the answer is yes to any of those questions then it is money well spent. Nowadays it seems only real men choose the harder/costlier but ultimately more rewarding route. Also restoring an older car is in fact a form of recycling. You are in fact helping the planet by not buying a new car but keeping an older one still running. In fact carbon credit wise you have SAVED money. The government should subsidise classic car owners ( lower rego would be a nice thing ) for not increasing the carbon debt by buying a new car every 5 or so years. You should be applauded for spending obscene amounts of money on classics. Not derided. I intend to drink a few beers in your honour and get wonderfully buzzed. Thank you for giving me a reason.

http://bit.ly/c378WV I like it ... though I'd have the 240 behind ! Click the hi res buttons for desktop sized pics.

this. is. awesome. :o

Hope everything is well with the young'un and the mum. Dont really care about the dad. He didnt do anything ! Congratulations. Mike

Your car is the reason I got my zed ( though mine is 2+2 ) . Good luck with the sale. Dont stop hanging around the forum.

wrong state :'( :'( :'( :'( Lovely wheels. GL with sale

Hello Abdal , I too am from a long way away. I used to hang around a basketball court with my friends when A bunch of no good people came up to me and biffed me around. Well my grandma told me that I had to leave my home and move to a new city to live with my uncle. I was a little worried at first but when I got into the taxi and asked the taxi driver to take me to the new house I was amazed at how all the houses were beautiful. At first I thought is this all real? then I said NAh and said to take me to my new home. I Now hang around with my uncle and my cousin Carlton who is a little square but is basically a nice if misguided fool. That is how I became the freshest royal person in Bel air. I welcome you to our site where we can talk about hip hop , Datsun z's and wearing our flouro green hat tilted to the side.

yoda's a z driver ?

no worries on the one off orders then. I think it is against the law in qld to run spacers. Still I hope someone takes you up on the awesome offer. I wouldnt be bothered with putting coilovers on a bus to get them to fit.

if only the offset was right. :'( :'( On a separate -related note. Can you bring in any rota wheels ?