Hi guys
New to the z community i have wanted one for a long time and in October last year i managed to find a 73 240z that had been recently imported from Texas that was within my budget. The car had been sat in a barn for 20 something years and was in pretty bad shape it had pretty much no floors and lots of other rust!!, but every thing was there the interior Was in very good nick with a little clean up no rips or scuffs just a few lizard and scorpion skeletons. the seats look like they were never sat in and as the mileage only reads 23,000 i can almost believe it from this.
First thing i set to doing was to strip the entire car down to get to all the rust and repairs i had to do witch took a good week. Once the car was stripped i set to work on replacing the floors witch is not the easiest job! All of the rust repairs took me around 5 months and at this point i have a fully rust free shell
I then looked at stripping the engine down and as the interior once the head was of i could see this engine was in very good condition no build up on the valves or anywhere in the engine it looked like a genuine low mileage engine, but as it was out i replaced everything anyway!
With this car i wanted to do everything myself and so far i have i am going to also paint the car as i have done some on friends car and it has come out alright! I am not hoping for a spotless car just one that i have poured my heart and soul in to! and a lot of money....
I have Attached some pictures at this point i have got everything engine and drivetrain in and am trying to get it running
Will update soon
Thanks olly
New to the z community i have wanted one for a long time and in October last year i managed to find a 73 240z that had been recently imported from Texas that was within my budget. The car had been sat in a barn for 20 something years and was in pretty bad shape it had pretty much no floors and lots of other rust!!, but every thing was there the interior Was in very good nick with a little clean up no rips or scuffs just a few lizard and scorpion skeletons. the seats look like they were never sat in and as the mileage only reads 23,000 i can almost believe it from this.
First thing i set to doing was to strip the entire car down to get to all the rust and repairs i had to do witch took a good week. Once the car was stripped i set to work on replacing the floors witch is not the easiest job! All of the rust repairs took me around 5 months and at this point i have a fully rust free shell
I then looked at stripping the engine down and as the interior once the head was of i could see this engine was in very good condition no build up on the valves or anywhere in the engine it looked like a genuine low mileage engine, but as it was out i replaced everything anyway!
With this car i wanted to do everything myself and so far i have i am going to also paint the car as i have done some on friends car and it has come out alright! I am not hoping for a spotless car just one that i have poured my heart and soul in to! and a lot of money....
I have Attached some pictures at this point i have got everything engine and drivetrain in and am trying to get it running
Will update soon
Thanks olly
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