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Go for it!!!!

Sie verstehen nicht Deutsche, Guus. I don't think there will be many American bidders. I am curious about the hsitory of the car and why there is a model of it. What is the history and why is this model so rare?

Many of the Japanese plastic model kits of the Seventies and Eighties were re-hashes of previous mouldings.

I'm no expert, but I've made a few models over the years. I used to watch my dad making old Monogram hot rod kits in the Sixties. Those kits were great, and I've still got some of the ones he made. I've also got a fair few unmade plastic model kits of the first-generation Z. Maybe I'm saving them for the future?.......

This particular issue is a kind of pastiche of the car that ran at Le Mans in 1976, and was entered by "SION AUTOS 2001". The same car ( with different paint and details ) also ran in the 1975 event. In fact it was an ex-Works SCCN circuit race car ( not an ex-Works rally car, as has been widely claimed ). We went through the story in a previous thread on this site, I remember.

As I say, the paint and decals of this kit are similar to - but not 100% accurate - the 1976 Le Mans car. The real one was using the full Works "Type B" aero package ( G Nose, super wide Overfenders, and three piece rear spoiler ) but the kit shows a car with no G Nose. The real car had the super-rare Kobe Seiko magnesium 4-spoke Works wheels, but those of the kit are different. The kit shows an LHD configuration, but the Le Mans car was RHD. Lots of other small differences too.

Its probably a rare kit, but does not accurately represent the car that it is ( roughly! ) based on. I think that's fair enough for a 'hobby' kit, as opposed to a serious scale-modeller's kit.

Come on 26th-Z, you know you want it!:classic:

Originally posted by 26th-Z

Sie verstehen nicht Deutsche, Guus. I don't think there will be many American bidders. I am curious about the hsitory of the car and why there is a model of it. What is the history and why is this model so rare?

this is the translation of it!

This is a kit for the genuine lover. Datsun fair lady 280ZR Racing on a scale 1/20. The kit is orginalverpackt and completely inclusive building guidance. All parts are welded still in foil. There is also parts thereby the one drive to make possible is. For all lovers of the z-row, they can this kit not be escaped!!!

It is very nice kit. I have it at home already, otherwise I would make you aware of it.

here are three pictures of the car!