1970 240

rahail240 said:
Mods aside, how can you judge the car and give comparison without even seeing it in the flesh??
I've yet to see more than a handful of uk Zeds with proper paint jobs.(less than a handful actually)

Once again we have members who start on picking the car to bits.
Yes, it's a heavy price (which is actually all positive stuff) and its an import.
An import, so what??
So you experts prefer the usual patched up piles of uk crud to a clean solid shell with a professional rhd conversion ???

What are these people on??
What are you lot on more like.

You try building a 'proper' car for less than 30k.

Just keep pulling anything decent down, that's the way to promote the marque.
Well done boys.

For those posting positives,
Thank you and keep them coming.
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Yeah, wot he said....

Hairpins adverts are always better quality cars usually, and it cant be a bad thing for a Z being sat in among the usual 911 Turbo's and Ferrari whatever's that they normally stock, and as good cars get harder to find and parts to rebuild scarcer still why should our cars not start to appreciate like everything else is?
 
Good and valued point jk,as for slagging other peoples cars off that has never been the case but as Franky said there would be other cars in front to maybe buy,but if any one wants to double their money then feel free to pop round with £25000 and take my Zed away,
 
Just heard back from Hairpin and they are actually asking £35k for the 240z, out of my range!!:(
 
Nigel Broderick's blue Classic road rally 240 is also up for grabs in Octane at £30k. Don't see a web page for it. Another DJ built car, running on SUs by the look of the small photo in the ad.

I saw this car last year and it seems to be very tidy.
 
pmac said:
Tel has already said its a S30 2L fairlady.
Hitachi carbs up to 75. Changed to FI for 76.
What more do you want to know.;)
Its been imported from the US. by the dealer in the advert. It would have been sold new in Japan. Bought s/h by a US service man.
On his return to the US he took the car with him cos Unce Sam ships all his posessions back home for him. At some point it got broke so the then owner parked it up for a decade or so.. All IMO of course.
Its alway good to get the Count involved as he will add some authoritative and correct fine detail but it is possible to survive without him!!!!
I was in direct communication with the Count in his Castle only recently as I needed some extra information and a learned opinion on some Enkei wheels:bow:

And I hope I have got the main facts above correct or the full wrath of the Count will fall on me whenever he lights on this thread.
Background chants of...
"We are not worthy"..... etc:D:D
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That is a rare car indeed in the UK. looking at the Brian Long book, that S30 Fairlady Z version was only available in Japan from Sept 75 until July 76 when the S31 Fairlady Z was introduced. Still, quite strong money for a car in need of a lot of tlc....
 
richiep said:
That is a rare car indeed in the UK. looking at the Brian Long book, that S30 Fairlady Z version was only available in Japan from Sept 75 until July 76 when the S31 Fairlady Z was introduced. Still, quite strong money for a car in need of a lot of tlc....
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Brian Long book is a useful reference .
The car under dicussion loks to be the same model that I once owned briefly.. Mine came to the Uk directly from Japan brought by US military owner. By the time it got to me the 2L engine had been replaced by a 280 one.
I have bought and sold a lot of stuff over the years and have no regrets about doing so but with hindsight maybe I should have kept it??? .:confused:
We would need the full chassis number to determine what it is/was.
Mine was an S30 IIRC
 
pmac said:
Brian Long book is a useful reference .
The car under dicussion loks to be the same model that I once owned briefly.. Mine came to the Uk directly from Japan brought by US military owner. By the time it got to me the 2L engine had been replaced by a 280 one.
I have bought and sold a lot of stuff over the years and have no regrets about doing so but with hindsight maybe I should have kept it??? .:confused:
We would need the full chassis number to determine what it is/was.
Mine was an S30 IIRC
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The vin is shown in the photobucket album mentioned in the ad:
S30-141102

Engine number shown too: L20 121104
 
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