Just been messing around on the net and came across this article. One definetly for the Zed car enthuasist.

http://www.rallyscene.com/cms/A_20516/article.html

Cool article, thanks for posting it. What I wouldn't give to have a look through that collection.

Its funny how you run into Zs in weird places. We employed a contracter off and on here at work, I had known him for about 8 years. Anyways, a few weeks back we got to talking about cars and I found out he had a 260Z 2 seater that he had owned since 1981. I got him to bring it in and it was probably the best condition unrestored Z I have have ever seen, we are talking virtually no rust even under the battery. Even had the rear louvres and lip spoiler.

Turns out he had tried to sell it in 1999 and could not get the aus$5 to 6K he wanted and gave up. After speaking to me, and I virtually offered to buy it, he decided that since the Z stocks have had a revival he would hang on to it. I'll keep working on him though.

"Surely the remaining examples of the world's best-selling sports car deserve better than this."

Sums it up.

Wow that's amazing. I wish i could get my hands on to lots of Zeds, would mean the restoration of my first one would be a lot easier!

S130 don't suppose you know where this farm is do you?

Interesting article. A couple of things stand out. 'Designed specifically for the American market.' I guess that can be debated until dooms day. I don't really care, I'm just happy that it was designed, period. 'Designed in part by Albrect Goertz...,' everthing I've ever read and heard with any credibility seems to indicate that he had very little if anything to do with the design. 'With the eventual demise of the 260Z, the larger-engined 280Z and 280ZX were released but buyers were by then starting to tire of the car and its "ladies hairdresser" image.' although you never got the 280Z in Australia. And as for the 'Datsun Sports Roadster' being the 'fore-runner' of the Z, well that's kind of a stretch IMO. It did precede the Z but the Z does kind of stand alone.

"Any serious car fanatic spends half his time, when driving in the country, looking to see what cars lurk in back yards and paddocks"

this line is 100% true... i turn down streets that look like not many people have just to see if there is anything in the backyard... saw a manaro once, but never the special datsun

My father was looking for cars a saw a old Bentley. He ran through the guys fence.

Needless to say he did get the car.

Sad thing is that the cars will probably sit in the shed untill the the guy is too old to do anything with them. Does he seriously think he's going to be able to restore 20 cars when he retires? Maybe his Kids will inherit them, and sell them off cheap.

I was at a wedding at recently out the pack of Perth, in upper swan, and spotted a derelict 69 mustang sitting in a paddoc in the adjoining property against the wire fence. It was between 2 shipping containers, with a makshift roof over it. I wondered if there were more mustangs in the shipping containers.

my thoughts exactly it's hard enough to fix 1 car let alone 20.

Seriously some people need to get a grip and maybe not be so greedy.

It's good to have a few parts cars but 20 is ridiculous.

Not wanting to sell any either just annoys me when i read stuff like that.

There was a guy about thirty years ago in Pomona California who had over 40 Chevrolet Corvairs. He untimately moved them up to a lot in Montclair California when the collection grew even more. I've been out of that area for some time now and have often wondered what became of that man and his cars.

The original link to the article has moved to:

http://www.rallysportnews.com.au/cms/A_20516/article.html

  sblake01 said:

There was a guy about thirty years ago in Pomona California who had over 40 Chevrolet Corvairs. He untimately moved them up to a lot in Montclair California when the collection grew even more. I've been out of that area for some time now and have often wondered what became of that man and his cars.

Is that the guy that had a load of corverttes? That used to sell bit and pieces every now and then, untill some poeple broke into his property and stole some stuff. So he packed it all into shipping containers and welded them up and stacked them all up againts each other so no one could get it.

I read an article about it (on here i think). He died and his wife sold the whold lot to one guy, who stands to make a packet selling them individually.

Or was that a different obsessive compulsive?