13 hours ago, kats said:

Hi , I couldn’t stop myself posting this, 

here is a quiz , what kind of material is this ? And what is it for ? Mr. Sudo has this , it is unbelievable.

Kats

Is it from the gentleman's area from a whale?

Thanks Mark Maras , Chris , and Alan .You all are correct   yes , I think so too.

What I wanted to say is, look at this please . Excerpt from a movie by Nissan .  

Kats

Edited April 23, 20196 yr by kats

Night driving with light intensity meter on windscreen at eye level and data collection instruments on rear deck?

 

Hmmm second thought is sound and vibration monitoring.

 

Here is another helmeted tester on a turning circle with sensors in wheel:

 

Edited April 24, 20196 yr by 240260280

Is it the rubber mat material that was used on the early cars instead of carpet?

Thanks Blue and 240dkw , 

Yes the car definitely was the test vehicle ( without chassis number ) carried a lot of recording machine for data collection. 

And you see the brown interior trims which was never applied to the production model . 

I think the Naugahyde which Mr. Sudo has could match that brown interior. 

Nissan actually planned “ brown “ trims for Fairlady Z series in Japan from the beginning of its production , but none of cars has that brown trims , there might be some reason that the brown trims were never applied. Only parts numbers for the brown seats are still listed in the Fairlady Z  series parts catalog. This is one of the ridiculous thing in the catalog for everyone !

But not only planned, Nissan ( or Ikeda Bussan : seats company ) actually placed an order for the brown one to a  Naugahyde manufacuturer for the production . To assist this  story , Mr . Sudo has an interesting experience with the brown Naugahyde .

One day he finally nailed down the exact Naugahyde which is used for the S30 seats , then he placed an order for the manufacturer with telling them that “ I am going to use it for S30 seats “  . 

What he has got is , that brown Naugahyde

first , then black one later . Those two both have exactly the same textures on it . 

That is why I think the brown Naugahyde which Mr. Sudo has is special , it was planned once but been never applied . 

 

Kats

PS : Can someone list the parts number for the Export S30’ seats  “brown “ ?

I am away from my home , I just want to compare the two of them. Here is the Fairlady Z seats parts numbers from 10/69 to 03/72 .

Edited April 24, 20196 yr by kats

10 minutes ago, kats said:

PS : Can someone list the parts number for the Export S30’ seats  “brown “ ?

I am away from my home , I just want to compare the two of them. Here is the Fairlady Z seats parts numbers from 10/69 to 03/72 .

Hi Kats,

Here are the parts numbers from the 11/69 North American parts catalog.

As i've said before Kats, this is such a gem of a thread to the forum.

Thanks Mike , it is a great help . Don’t you think the parts number is something wrong , do you ? Please see my corrections. 

Anyway , the number E4103 is for the “ brown “ seats , and this doesn’t mean either the one which is kept by Mr. Sudo or the one can be seen in the test car . We actually have the tan seats as “ brown “  E4103  , don’t we ? 

Jason240z , I am so glad that you said that to me ! 

Kats

Edited April 24, 20196 yr by kats

I amended, I am glad not for me , for this thread made by everyone here !

Kats

2 hours ago, kats said:

PS : Can someone list the parts number for the Export S30’ seats  “brown “ ?

Have you got the vinyl swatch page in your 'R-Drive' Export part catalogue Kats?

Here's the illustration 103 page from my earliest 'R-Drive' Export parts catalogue, which has actual vinyl swatches for the Black and Brown seat vinyl textures. Blue colour is listed, but no swatches. I have never seen an original Blue interior in a UK market car and only one or two Brown. Normal colour was Black.

   

Kats let me check the AU parts manual also.

On the topic of interior colours I find it fascinating that home market cars never got the Blue / Red / Tan interiors. Did they get white?

Any idea why not? Was it considered too lairy for the home market customers?

Even today with Nissan I see examples of unique interiors on cars they produce. I recently bought an Autech car which has a different interior (similar to the Skyline GTRs) which didn't appear on the other models.

I like it, but because of you Kats I now want to keep everything as original as possible on my cars and I have got seat covers etc.. to protect all the original materials. So in another 10-15 years people like us will be able to appreciate the original cars.

could you have requested any colour out of the catalogue then Alan?