WazzaJB
Club Member
Had the pleasure of picking this up today along with a huge amount of spare parts, the previous owner was a lovely gentleman in his mid-70's who unfortunately couldn't continue with the project.
It's been exported and imported twice now & also needs re-registering, which is going to be difficult as can't find the title with the cars documents... Doesn't help that everything is in Spanish though! (If anyone can offer any insight or advice here that would be much appreciated, be a shame if we started restoring it only to find out it could never go back on UK roads)
Plenty of rust to work through before making any serious progress but we got the 2.8 turning over nicely this morning so I'm sure that'll all be great with a bit of TLC.
Plan on restoring this with my elder brother and hopefully show up at a meet in the future with both cars.
The car is a 1979 UK RHD 280ZX 2 seater, non-turbo. Has only done 34,000 miles! You can see through the bottom of the drivers door and there's plenty of rust on the floors, rails & engine bay. The plan as it stands is to make a start on the metalwork and go from there.
Interestingly (maybe not?) I have about 10 invoices from MJP in the mid-90's onwards for various works. Alongside this I have a Z Club valuation declaring the car in great condition, sad to see it has fallen into this state of disrepair!
I know the S130's aren't worth the same as an S30, and most would maybe be reluctant to spend time and money restoring this(?) but me and my brother are super keen to do so and excited to get it back on the road. To give us an idea of how far we take this project in terms of detail, what's one of these worth restored? Can't find any 2 seaters on ebay previously sold listings.
Thanks all!
It's been exported and imported twice now & also needs re-registering, which is going to be difficult as can't find the title with the cars documents... Doesn't help that everything is in Spanish though! (If anyone can offer any insight or advice here that would be much appreciated, be a shame if we started restoring it only to find out it could never go back on UK roads)
Plenty of rust to work through before making any serious progress but we got the 2.8 turning over nicely this morning so I'm sure that'll all be great with a bit of TLC.
Plan on restoring this with my elder brother and hopefully show up at a meet in the future with both cars.
The car is a 1979 UK RHD 280ZX 2 seater, non-turbo. Has only done 34,000 miles! You can see through the bottom of the drivers door and there's plenty of rust on the floors, rails & engine bay. The plan as it stands is to make a start on the metalwork and go from there.
Interestingly (maybe not?) I have about 10 invoices from MJP in the mid-90's onwards for various works. Alongside this I have a Z Club valuation declaring the car in great condition, sad to see it has fallen into this state of disrepair!
I know the S130's aren't worth the same as an S30, and most would maybe be reluctant to spend time and money restoring this(?) but me and my brother are super keen to do so and excited to get it back on the road. To give us an idea of how far we take this project in terms of detail, what's one of these worth restored? Can't find any 2 seaters on ebay previously sold listings.
Thanks all!