I have heard from several of you trying to sell me an assist grip for the DRIVERS door. It doesn't have one! I now know that after advertising for one in classifieds. My BAD!

I have owned 5 Z's over the years. It has been 25 years since I owned my '70. I bought this '71 in CA and drove it back to Oregon from California. After having it for a few days, started stripping it for restoration. It has been 8 months and I am finally putting it back together. I found only one 'assist grip' and thought I misplaced one. After checking the situation out, I discovered the 240 doesn't have one on the drivers door. Ouch! You caught me on this one. I will never make another mistake at least for another week or so! :eek:

I have heard from several of you trying to sell me an assist grip for the DRIVERS door. It doesn't have one! I now know that after advertising for one in classifieds. My BAD!

I have owned 5 Z's over the years. It has been 25 years since I owned my '70. I bought this '71 in CA and drove it back to Oregon from California. After having it for a few days, started stripping it for restoration. It has been 8 months and I am finally putting it back together. I found only one 'assist grip' and thought I misplaced one. After checking the situation out, I discovered the 240 doesn't have one on the drivers door. Ouch! You caught me on this one. I will never make another mistake at least for another week or so! :eek:

My 71 has the threaded holes in the drivers door and knock outs

in the door pannel for one. Does this mean that right hand drive

cars have them on the left but not on the right? as ours have

them on the right but not on the left?

I believe RHD cars have them on both sides...

Will

assist grip?

US Terminolgy please translate for us RHDrivers......

assist grip?

US Terminolgy please translate for us RHDrivers......

The handle on the passenger door to help in closing it.

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assist grip?

US Terminolgy please translate for us RHDrivers......

Here in the US on our 240Z's 70-73 there is a strap to pull

the door shut on the passenger side (right side in our cars)

but the drivers side only has the arm rest. You could call it

a assist grip but I thought it was a door pull. However my

wife calls it a Jesus Christ bar because that is what she

says just before she grabs it.

I just looked it up in the factory service manual and its

called "assist strap for assistant side only" I actually

think that its there so they have something to grab on

to when the car is moving.

No, we have it on both sides, also included is a "jesus" strap for the navigator.....

No, we have it on both sides, also included is a "jesus" strap for the navigator.....

Is your strap built into the arm rest like our 280Z's or is the

strap seperate like we have on the 70-73 240Z's?

Strap seperate. Forward of the armrest [ie towards the front]

Strap seperate. Forward of the armrest [ie towards the front]

Years ago my sister was in Australia and you could not drive

with the window open and your arm hanging out. She sent

me pictures of this plastic thing that went into window opening

that made it legal to drive with your arm hanging out. Is it

still that way?

How come they do not have both set-ups in the firewall for RHS steering? I would think it would be much easier to build all of the cars the same and then just use "block outs" for the side that does not need a steering column, M/C's, etc. If they built the door panels for both applications, I wonder why they did not build the chassis that way. Interesting!

The firewall is the only part of the chassis(I beleive) that is different-perhapse it had something to do with getting the car approved by the USA DOT.

Will