G'day all,
I would like to introduce myself as a proud owner of 3/71 240z. After visiting this site a bit over the last 12 month I thought this was a good time to introduce myself and my car.
I first fell in love with the 240z after watching one at the Gatton and Pittsworth sprints whack the rest of the field around the ears in the time trials (British racing green 240z from Brisbane). A car that beats up on skylines and porsches is worth owning. I purchased my 240z about 9 years ago from a bloke in Townsville. He had previously bought the car for his son and himself to do up. Things happen and it had a new home in Toowoomba Qld.
When we got it home it was in a bit of rough state. It had a previous roo hit on the front LHS, a stuffed fiberglass bonnet and a good dose of rust in the usual places. Inside there was 24 volt air con system out of a truck, but the interior was in a pretty good state. The rust was going to make it hard to get a road worthy so we decided to strip it right back to bare metal and start again. I purchased another 240 for a parts car and a guide to work off as this was my first attempt at doing up a car. After about 18 month I had a rolling shell with a fresh coat of paint and no rust.
With the pressures of life and a move to Mackay this is the way it stayed for next 5 years, till one day when my girlfriend and myself where cleaning up in the garage and she put the hard word on me about a wedding...... A deal was made that there was only going to be a wedding if the zed could be one of the wedding cars. It's amazing what the motivation of a female can get done. 1 year later 1 wedding and 1 zed on the road.
Work done to the zed includes a combination L24 head and L26 bottom end, Toyota front brakes and R31 rears, lowered springs, adjustable shocks, and new set of wheels. Have given the interior a bit of spruce up with new carpets, sound deading, and covered the plastic parts in vinyl to match the dash and removed the truck air con.
A bit about myself. I'm a supervisor for a earthmoving company in the coal mining game and a farmer in another life. After moving to Mackay I have noticed that there are bugger all other zeds around up here. I would like to get involved in a club to meet other like minded people and participate in track days. I'm not sure what's available in central qld.
Myles Somerset