240z FIA head and calipers?

[Alphabettispaghetti]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Datsun-240z/264387604987?hash=item3d8ebab1fb:g:sFMAAOSwNPZdHlIZ

the number plate rings a bell.

Was DJ building cars in the 70's?

FIA head?

FIA brakes?

 

[jonbills]

This FIA 240z only has 2 pot front brakes.

https://historicdb.fia.com/car/nissan-datsun-sports-240-z-hls30-0

You'd think for that money you'd get a 300bhp print out.

It's very nice though.

SUX 988H is on the member database and I think is a well known car.

 

[IbanezDan51]

Has it been reshelled? Has a later dash and centre console.

No quarter vents and has the correct tailgate vents but I’ve not seen any original U.K. cars with that set up? Maybe Australian import?

 

[Alphabettispaghetti]

Has it been reshelled? Has a later dash and centre console.

No quarter vents and has the correct tailgate vents but I’ve not seen any original U.K. cars with that set up? Maybe Australian import?

it says it had the boot replaced with one.

 

[IbanezDan51]

Tbh I think he’s dreaming at that price, missing too much of its period correctness for that money and isn’t Resto-mod/MZR styled to fetch the premium.

 

[IbanezDan51]

it says it had the boot replaced with one.

It doesn’t say replaced. It says the bonnet was replaced not the boot.

“ The bonnet is from a 280z with original vents, and the rear tailgate has the very rare vents complete with the trickle moldings in tact-almost unheard of.”

 

[SeanDezart]

It was a LHD import converted.

 

[Rob Gaskin]

I just don't like the way the description reads - for a few reasons.

 

[IbanezDan51]

It was a LHD import converted.

Retains its original ID then?

 

[Albrecht]

FIA head?

Nope.

Seller might have the wrong end of the stick there. Most likely a DJR-modified stock production head, and FIA Appendix K compliant.

 

[Alphabettispaghetti]

Nope.

Seller might have the wrong end of the stick there. Most likely a DJR-modified stock production head, and FIA Appendix K compliant.

Yes, that was my gut feeling.

 

[Alphabettispaghetti]

It doesn’t say replaced. It says the bonnet was replaced not the boot.

“ The bonnet is from a 280z with original vents, and the rear tailgate has the very rare vents complete with the trickle moldings in tact-almost unheard of.”

Yeah sorry Dan, its the way the advert is structured.

I wonder if its got tool box lids in the boot?

 

[IbanezDan51]

Yeah sorry Dan, its the way the advert is structured.

I wonder if its got tool box lids in the boot?

That's what I was wondering too, but the lack of pictures for a car that hes asking over 45k for is a concern

 

[uk66fastback]

SUX 988H is on the member database and I think is a well known car.

It's SUX 981H, not 988 ...

 

[jonbills]

It's SUX 981H, not 988 ...

Yes. I was offering a suggestion for why the SUX 981H plate might seem familiar to Jason. [emoji4]

 

[uk66fastback]

Ah, sorry ... I misinterpreted it like a dunce ... green one, innit? (988)

 

[johnymd]

SUX988H is Matt's race car.

 

[SeanDezart]

Would there be so much doubt and (slightly) negative criticism if this car was priced somewhere between £25 and £30k ? Look deeply and give an honest answer please.

 

[Alphabettispaghetti]

They’d be the doubt if it was £5k. I think everyone’s only questioned some details of then advert, nothing negative really about it.

 

[Albrecht]

Would there be so much doubt and (slightly) negative criticism if this car was priced somewhere between £25 and £30k ? Look deeply and give an honest answer please.

The sales description is iffy ("FIA head" etc) and makes you wonder whether the seller actually knows his onions, but the elephant in the room here the question of 're-shelling' and identity.

Looks to me that this is actually a 1970 production LHD bodyshell that has been converted to RHD, in which case the question of chassis number and paperwork comes into play. Being on an 'H' suffix plate I presume it has retained its original 'HLS30' prefixed chassis number and identity. Therefore, not actually any kind of re-shell or identity switcheroo?

Lovely car, but they must be clearly identified and understood - for whatever they really are - in order to command the big money.