Seats & switches

[Alfadog]

I've got two questions.

The first is what are my seats made of? Is it velour not leather, and if so, what is velour?!?!

Also, I've got two switches (as shown in the pic attached) which dont do anything... My car is a 71 so what should the switches do?

[24OZ]

Here's a better pic of what Alfadog is illustrating.

What goes in that indented hole with the arrow pointing to it in the top dash?

[Dazza]

Hi there Alfadog,

First off, my 1970 model 240Z has no switches fitted as standard to the positions you show. They may have been fitted by a previous owner for spotlights or whatever, possibly.

The orignal seats are of a vinyl manufacture. The following site on eBay is advertising replacement covers in vinyl or with velour (that fluffy/fuzzy stuff) inserts.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1848617631

Cheers

Darryl

[Ed]

The indents on my dash 10/73 has two accesories.

The top one is a cigarette lighter and the bottom one is the Hazard switch.

[EScanlon]

The 70 and early 71 240Z's had the cigar lighter mounted on the console just below the radio. Additionally the ash tray / fuse box cover had a hole for the cigar lighter.

The indent above the hazard switch ORIGINALLY was intended for the FOG LAMP switch, which is an extremely rare option on US cars. (In fact, if you have the switch for it, I'm willing to buy it from you).

The late 71 and so on models had the cigar lighter mounted above the hazard switch.

The 70 / e71's had a pull button switch for the 4 way flashers. This was a pretty obvious design in that you pulled it and the flashers worked, pushed it in and they stopped.

Later models went to a toggle style switch which for some reason was felt to be confusing and that people would not know how to operate it. So they made an indent in the dash for a DECAL that says:

Hazard Switch: ON (in the up position); OFF (in the down position)

Since the decal would not stick on the dash properly, they indented the plastic skin so it would not peel off.

By the way, I believe the pictures posted are from Zhome.com and they have an excellent article that goes WITH those pictures that explains what I have posted here.

Enrique Scanlon

[Alfadog]

Ah... ok well mines a 71 and has a centre console with choke and hand throttle .... and two switches up there.

Fog lights then ? The top switch I think is a 3 way switch and the bottom one is just 2 way.

Mmmm dunno, maybe I need to buy some foggies? hehee

[EScanlon]

I had a conversation recently with another Z owner, and we bantered back and forth over the Hazard Switch.

I have seen pictures of early Z's (70&71) with the PULL type switch, but he informed me that the early ones had the TOGGLE switch and not the pull.

So I apologize for the inaccuracy.

So, in reading my above post, the switches are reversed. The EARLY Z's had the TOGGLE.

The LATER Z's had the Pull-Button switch.

The other information about the Fog Lamp, Cigar Lighter is accurate.

By the way, if your dash does not have the hole made in the fog lamp position, that is a TRUE BLUE 70/71 Dash.

Don't know about the Fog Lamp Switch Alfa, but if you're willing to ship it over to me, (hehehe), I'm sure I can let you know about it.

[Alfadog]

I'll see if I can get some pictures soon

[8sixfeetunder]

i have 2 1971 240z's and one of the cars has the switch, but i removed the dash and there are no wires going to it. dont really want to sell it before i decide if i want to put fog lights on it or not. i had no clue what it was. it looks identical to the flip up and down flasher switch

[zKars]

73's in North Am had the pull hazard knob. Some reg. or requirement came in to have it lit up with the dash lights I suspect.