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Reminding myself that this is a photo thread. So here's a lovely shot of Nissan works driver, SCCN team member Kenji Tohira sitting in Fuji Speedway's course car - a Nissan Fairlady Z432-R - for the 'Fuji 300 Mile' race on 7th June 1970:

My best guess is that it is a combination of factors, not the least of them being about 50+ years of language gap (we never got the Japanese side of the story until recently) and other sources - mainly American - stepping in by default to fill that gap. The problem is that a lot of it is...

You'll notice how testy I get about all this (sorry....). The erroneous stuff that's written about the whole saga is like Japanese knotweed. It seems to be impossible to kill. Does my head in. But then these cars have always had that problem.

The car was based on a Japanese market Fairlady 240Z ('HS30' prefixed) and was much modified by the Nissan Works team for entry in the Kyalami 9hrs race in 1973. Nissan built two cars for the race. They featured all the current Group 4 & 5 bodywork (Grande Nose and extra wide overfenders) and...

Quite a complicated story, but I have discussed it before (on here?) and can't find a link at the moment. Basically the car used to belong to Mr Andre Haller, a restaurateur from Strasbourg who used to do a bit of racing and hillclimbing. Haller's main claim to fame was in entering an ex-Works...

Some fanciful and grand (not to say daft) claims have been made in the past regarding the identity of this car. Regrettable, as the car has its own identity. A small walk-on part in a bigger story, but at least it is correct.

Not a real car, but a Photoshop creation from some years back.

They are the dimensions including the factory overfenders for the HS30-H Fairlady 240ZG model, and the Marugen Shōkai standard ZG overfenders - as fitted to the car in question - are an accurate replica of them, so the dimensions will be correct. The worry is that people will use/confuse the...

That's a lot of car for the money. I've known this car, off and on, for many years. I imported the replica 'Grande Nose' kit, OEM headlamp covers and OEM ZG-specific bonnet hinges from Japan for a previous owner many years ago. The recent work - commissioned by the seller and carried out at...

Bizarre that he's introducing the Randy Jaffe-owned 'tribute' car as the *ACTUAL* '71 East African Safari Rally winning car. It's a pastiche, mostly consisting of paint and stickers. Nothing - nothing - like The Real Thing.

Coincidence? Hmmmm....

To be fair, that car has done a lot of Nissan Press Fleet work over the years. Many of the people let loose in it would have been less than 100% sympathetic. Yes, some of the details are not correct but would be fairly easy to remedy. The wheel choice could be better, but the decision to fit...

"NEVER USED IN THE WET PILES OF HISTORY" A line worthy of Keats, Shelley or Lord Byron.

They would be very handy spares for my Fairlady 240ZG. Could you PM me with a figure you'd be looking for? Thanks.

I don't understand this mindset. "Inevitable comments"? Any serious prospective buyer worth their salt - whether new to these cars or an old hand - is going to see the very same things. None of the comments made so far are - as far as I can see - destructively negative or excessively...

I think a car pitched at such a top-end asking price would need to have a little bit more attention paid to fit and finish. It will be slightly off-putting to people who are more used to seeing the fit and finish on classic Porsches, for example. Especially so on things that jump out to the...

Only North American market cars had the Federal rear side markers.

Yes, because making observations about a car for sale is "war". And you too are a combatant.

...except a screwdriver. Front indicator side repeaters are mounted upside down.