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New owner of 72 240Z
- Thread starter CheZ
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richiep
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Very humid in all of Texas I'd say! It's like walking through soup on a hot day there!
Of course, it occurred to me after having said the Arizona thing that cars there will be just as, if not even more susceptible to the battery leakage issue due to the extreme heat. Pretty much its a case of taking these US cars on a case by case basis no matter where they've lived. It's all about what effects the life of that particular car have had upon it up to this point, and factoring that into the price and how much work you want to do.
Thinking about Z infestations, I saw on one of the American sites recently that someone had found a black widow nesting in their project Z.
Hi Chez, another Z owner with a LHD car in the UK - there's quite a group of you now.
First of all you'll soon learn to keep water away from these cars - Jet Wash
It looks like a car that has been left alone so what you see is what you get i.e. the rust areas are making themselves known. What occurs to me and it's really general advice for future buyers (from anywhere in the world) is to request good quality pictures of these cars and especially the rust-prone areas. It's always best to see these cars 'in the flesh' but a holiday to the US is probably a bit much (but not for a 'top-end' car). However we can see from your pictures quite a lot of work and I'm suspecting if some of it was more than you were expecting then you may not have been supplied with a good set of pictures.
I have learn't now to ask specific questions and 'prod' a bit for answers. Even when my wife buys household or antique stuff off ebay we don't settle for the 'used but in good condition for age' description. We ask, has it got any chips, cracks, marks etc etc.
Also people who have owned a car for a long time sometimes say 'as far as I know it's rust-free' well I'm always suspicious of that too - they usually know exactly where the problems are but don't want to divulge them.
Anyway I look forward to your adventure - I bought a rusty 240Z in 1996 and these cars take over your mind! Great cars, great constructive hobby.
This is the car I think? http://www.erclassics.com/Datsun-240Z-classic-car-for-sale-1190.php#gotophotos
Plenty to study there then, so there shouldn't really be any shocks.
GTR-240Z
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SeanDezart
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Can you eat immigrants ?
toopy
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Christ... he looks like he's seen some action
would'nt want to bump into him in a dark alley
CheZ
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It is the one. They were actually pretty good to deal with. car is as advertised.
The only slight problem was that they did not inform me of the delivery day and I received a call from the driver saying he was half an hour away. Luckily I live near to work!
No problems though + the Euro was a bit weak so suited me pretty well.