Albrecht
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suzy said:Hi Alan
do you know which edition of the Z Club magazine this was printed in?
Thanks
Suzy,
I'll ask my friend if he can confirm in which issue he saw the list, and hopefully on which page.
But surely it must be pretty easy to track down by scanning through a few of the more recent magazines - no?
red baron said:i do currently own a orginal 240zg which at the momentsits in chiba tokyo japan cost £15.000 maroon late 1972 not mint but good condition and complete arrive june onlly done 40.000 app gen one owner have photo will send editor some asap
Congratulations on your purchase, and I wish you luck and good fun with it. The more imports of good condition early Japanese cars the better, I say. The more the merrier. I assume though that your car is not one of the cars that the list included (?).
If the car cost you the equivalent of £15,000 to buy in Japan then it will cost you the other side of £20,000 by the time it is in the UK with all taxes and duties paid. You'll be wanting to insure it to reflect that fact, and I presume you might ask for an agreed value with a declaration of value backed up by a UK owners club ( for example ). This is where you might start to understand what it is exactly that I'm getting at regarding the potential conflict between proper authentication, and the misrepresentation of cars that are already in the UK. Will you be wanting your car to be categorised as essentially the same thing as a UK market car with some non-factory additions? I think not.
By the way, Chiba is a prefecture and Tokyo is a city. Think ( for example ) Essex and London. Your car can be in one or the other, but not both at the same time.
Thanks to Gio for some wise words. Unfortunately Sean has shown that the natural tendency for some people is to avoid the actual issue under discussion and focus on another entirely; namely my non-member status, as though making me a reluctant member would solve the problem. It won't.
I think this requires a change of thinking at the heart of the club. Would the GTR Owners Club endorse a GTS that was pretending to be a GTR as the equivalent of the real thing? I think not.