gturner008

I spoke with Fourways garage yesterday about the blue recent import. Believed a 73 car. New owner is a Brit who bought direct from Oz (not through a dealer). Says its in excellent/show condition - so I would think someone on this site will know it.

Brilliant. Great result. Call me daft - but I do like to build history files on my cars.

Struck lucky. Previous owner responded to my PM. I'm really grateful as I can now start to build a history folder

I'm on it! Cheers. G

To be fair - that's between seller and buyer. All I will say is that $50k Aus per car is a pretty acceptable rate to pay for decent RHD non rusty 240z cars. I only saw one of the two cars, which I'm delighted with - so purchased it. The other one is still for sale I believe, and is apparently in better condition than mine (and mines pretty darn good!). There is a thread on this forum with some history on my car. Gives me a lot of confidence in the car seeing seller advertising the car last year.

Thanks for the replies so quickly. Must be early in the morning your time. Non-rusty RHD cars from Australia are going for around £25k each. That's €50k Aussie each! With a budget of around £8k to bring to good show/driver (but not concours) standard - I would expect to be about to sell for around £35k - a small profit (but I have no intention of selling mine). Value of classic cars have done mad here the last 24 months. Impact bumper 911s have doubled - as have E-types and Healeys. I'm sorry to say you may have a bit of a gold rush on your hands - with us brits buying up more of your precious metal any time soon. At 2.1 to the £ - it will only accelerate the stampede!

I'm the chap who bought one of the two cars seen on the trailer. Love it. I'll keep you posted on how it comes along

Mines 00596 now in UK

Here are some pictures

Hi everyone One of the forum guys on zClub.net suggested I contact your club and let them know I have just bought an ex Aussie car - now in the UK. Its the orange 1971 car - which was in Sydney, then Melbourne and then Taz. An Aussie guy (Jody) bought my car and another 240z and shipped them to UK in June. The car was then sent to Four Ways garage (a specialise z garage) - where I viewed, inspected and then purchased. Love the car. Very nice original condition. Needs tidying up and new paint - but fundamentally a really solid car - rust free. A credit to the previous owners who maintained the car. Not sure about the seats. They are velour. Either been recovered, standard or replacement 260z? Other than the seats - its lovely. For interest sake - the asking price for my one and the other one is around the €50k Aus. So there must be a bit of margin in shipping RHD cars to UK. If anyone has any history or knowledge of my car I'd really like to hear from them. I'll send a note to the previous owners - but suspect they have moved on and not now active members. If anyone's interested - I'll keep you posted on developments and how the car comes along. My plan is to keep it as a driver - not concours it or over restore it - just make it pretty! Thanks.... Gary