Had a question about 240z's

[joshm38]

I'm sorry for posting if its already been answered i looked for a while and cant find anything anywhere

my question is what year or was it like a sport package to have this front bumper???http://www.geocities.com/coolin550/hs30blu1.jpg

It would be nice to buy a z with this bumper already im not really feeling the boat chrome thanks for you help hopefully i get help fast

[Savage42]

I'm assuming that you simply mean the thin bumpers that came on the '70-74 Z cars, right? Nothing special on that one, just not the big bumpers that came on the late '74-78 Zs.

Of course, if you end up with a later Z, you can always remove the bumper and add a body kit like the one I put on my '78 280Z. :-)

http://album.hybridz.org/data/855/medium/280Z-06_Pics_125_Medium_.jpg

[joshm38]

thanks for the fast reply =] I've seen some 73's that dont have the nice looking bumper like the one i've attached is it common? I mean like the lip of the bumper u know how there longer down?

[Fun_in_my_z]

Yes, late 73 had the bigger bumpers.

[joshm38]

ok so the 72 had the nice one like the picture of the red 240z on the site thanks guys i appreciate this =]

[Zs-ondabrain]

And to add to that, I believe that most 240Z's had the black rubber trim on the front and rear bumpers but the EURO bumpers (from Europe) were available as a Full Chrome unit and had no holes for the rubber trim to be used. It's a nice look, just like the one you pictured.

You can make the US models look like that by removing the rubber trim and either filling in the holes then rechroming or just use the bolts that have a rounded head to fill the holes that are left after removing the trim.

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong,

Dave.

[HS30-H]

And to add to that, I believe that most 240Z's had the black rubber trim on the front and rear bumpers but the EURO bumpers (from Europe) were available as a Full Chrome unit and had no holes for the rubber trim to be used.

The so-called "Euro Bumpers" were nothing to do with models sold in the European mainland - which always had the full 'Deluxe' rubber trim.

"Euro" is just an American market nickname, probably attached by marketing men. During the late Sixties and early Seventies it was often used in American VW and Porsche circles to describe parts that really had come from Europe, and were different to those being sold as standard equipment in the USA market. Perhaps the nomenclature stuck........

In fact, the plain non rubber-trimmed bumpers that get called "Euro" bumpers were originally fitted to the base-level Japanese market 1969 S30-S 'Fairlady Z' ( nicknamed 'Z-S' by Nissan ) and the super-lightweight PS30-SB 'Fairlady Z432-R' ( nicknamed 'PZR' by Nissan ). They were subsequently fitted to all the base-level 'Standard' models in the Japanese market right through to the end of S30/S31 production in 1978, whilst the other 'Deluxe' models got the rubber-trimmed version.

Alan T.

[cunniwj]

Both of the 2 72 Z's I've owned both had all chrome bumpers except for the sides where the black rubber trim was

[Zs-ondabrain]

See. I told you someone would correct me if I was wrong. But at least we got the correct facts out without knockin somebody down. I really like the "ALL chrome" look. But then again, the black rubber makes everything else stand out a bit more.

That's why I'm torn between the 2.

Dave.

[Arne]

But are you also looking at the painted air dam below the bumper on those two examples? If so, those are aftermarket parts, not factory.