Ok - so as suggested by some, I am starting a build thread for the revival of this beautiful 1977 silver 260z 2+2 that was one of the luckier victims of the recent QLD floods. This is going back to the start, and I will add more soon.
Purchased from a very friendly and helpful New Zealander who spent a fair amount of time working on unsticking the handbrake so that the transport could move the car on and off the tray as well as being available to answer my questions on the phone. He owned the car for 10years and kept it very original apart from a quality $2000 custom exhaust system and a now waterlogged pioneer sterero.
The dead zed made its way onto the back of the truck and arrived ahead of schedule at my house in Melbourne. The first challenge, was to get the rolling vehicle off the main road and up a steep driveway to my garage and workshop. I tried towing it up (with two drivers) at first with my 1965 Rambler 287 V8, but it struggled with the gradiant. Then I tried to tow it with the HX 308V8 one tonner, but not enough weight over the rear axle meant a lot of wheelspin and not much movement. In the end the Euro Audi allroad was called in and did it with ease.
Thus begun the clean up job, washing off the residual gunk from the flood waters and road grime. Photos for part one...attached, assuming they work.