Headlight Covers with Chrome Trim

[EScanlon]

Looking for a pair of Headlight Covers with the Chrome Trim for a 1971 240Z.

Let me know how much you want for them, and I'll also pay shipping.

Thanks in advance.

My zip code is 98685

Enrique Scanlon

[guy_geo]

If this is waht you're looking, for, one of our ZOOM Club got some.

It's $CND !! (BARGAIN)

Caisson de phare avant / Sugar scoop (70-78) $25.00 ch/each

Brady (514) 933-1716 ou Robert (450) 689-0134

[EScanlon]

At $25 a pair, even US $ they would be a bargain for just the Lexan covers WITHOUT the chrome trim.

The ones I am looking for have a distinctive chrome trim around the headlight cover, and I would seriously question their condition at $25.00 a pair. But I will call and ask.

Enrique

[Guycali]

Let us know what you find Enrique!

[EScanlon]

FOUND THEM!

Contacted Charlie Osborne at Zedd Findings in Canada. He can order them from Japan and get them shipped to you. Here's Charlie's Info:

Zedd Findings

Charlie Osborne

603 Compass Court

Kingston, Ontario K7M 8V9

Canada

Tel: (613) 389-1397

www.datsunzparts.com

www.datsunzparts.ca

E-Mail: zeddfind@kos.net

Now HANG ON! They are NOT cheap. With shipping they end up being about $143 US each. So, that's $287 for the pair. Also, Charlie sells them on a paid in advance basis, and no he doesn't keep them in stock. So you have to be a sincerely motivated buyer, and you might opt for the lesser headlight covers available from MSA or V/B or others.

But for the difference, ahhh, the difference!

I'll post a picture from the Die Cast Model I have only cause I can't scan in the picture from the original car that made me lust for a pair of these. And hopefully you can discern the classy look it gives the front end. It reminds you even more of the Jaguar XKE lineage of the car. If you have the Premiere Issue of Sport Z, on page 21 you will see a SUPERB example of a 280 fully restored WITH the headlight covers I am referring to.

By the way, that issue is also the one with all the information on how to do an inexpensive fuel vent line replacement, and having talked to David (editor of Sport Z) they ARE selling out. This means if you are interested in that article, pick up the phone and order the back issue. You won't regret it, especially if you have leaky hoses.

[EScanlon]

I HAD contacted Courtesy, and the guy that answered said that they were NLA, and when I called back and asked a different guy, he said that only ONE side was available.

Additionally, although they advertise that there is a 10% discount for IZCC members, it turns out that the prices on their website ARE the discounted prices. I was told that by both the dweebs I spoke to. That means that ANY contact from the internet is automatically discounted. Not that I joined the IZCC for the discount, but don't tell me I have a perk when in fact it's just BS hype.

Sorry but that, to me, sounds like bait and switch.

They still list the parts on their web-site, but give them a call. Maybe now they got them in.

[EScanlon]

Oh well, it sounds as though I could have saved some money.

But I insist that at the time I called, Late April, I was advised that they were NLA.

No worries though, I do have them now and that's what matters.

[kmack]

This is what you guys are talking about, right? The picture was right here on our site!

http://www.240z.org/photopost/index.php?photo=676

[EricB]

Ok we saw the price Charlie up in Canada has them for, right (I've actually got a set on the way according to him - cool.)

Courtesy was at $120 but supposedly NLA - which was again confirmed by an email I just got from their sales dept.

That does leave www.nismoparts.com (Bruce Titus dealership in Seattle) where they are listed at $108/side - I emailed Ray inquiring about availability and have yet to get a reply.

just fyi'ing since no one had mentionned the above place as a source for them....

-e

[EScanlon]

but I'm not insane!

I thought I remembered Courtesy saying NLA through them.

Glad you could get them Eric. Wait till you see the instruction sheet.

I'm investigating a slightly different way of mounting them, and will advise once I've checked it out.

I have gone to nismoparts, but sad to report have not gotten answers either, so don't know whether I needed to order them or what.

Z Ya L8R

[EricB]

I agree sometime Ray at nismoparts is a bit slow to answer emails but everytime I have ordered something from them that did have a price next to it on the website it did show up on my doorstep a week or so later.... the items that they have as NLA simply don't have price fields next to them anymore....

-e