ToXIc Posted October 21, 2008 Share #1 Posted October 21, 2008 I've been searching but couldn't find a definite answer. So my 240z (3/70) emblems are mixed... the three 240z emblems (rear deck/ side ) are metal. But the "Datsun" for the Hatch and fenders as well as the hatch vents are plastic... were they ever made in metal? Also my hood emblem is MIA.. is it suppose to be metal also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted October 21, 2008 Share #2 Posted October 21, 2008 Early emblems were all metal. I believe the hatch vents were always plastic.Somewhere down the road, Nissan replaced the metal emblems with plastic to save costs. My 7/71 car has all plastic, and all are original. The 10/70 car I parted out had metal hood, fender and pillar emblems. The deck emblems were long gone by the time I got the car, so I don't know for certain about them.I'd say that a 3/70 car probably should have come with all metal emblems, so the plastic ones now on your car are probably replacements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToXIc Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share #3 Posted October 21, 2008 thanks A... you tha man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted October 21, 2008 Share #4 Posted October 21, 2008 Have the later round vented quarter panel emblems ever been plastic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted October 21, 2008 Share #5 Posted October 21, 2008 Ahh. Good question! No, I don't think they have been. A mistake in my post above. All emblems other than the pillar vents were plastic on later cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26th-Z Posted October 21, 2008 Share #6 Posted October 21, 2008 Confirming what has been said. The rear deck vent grills have always been plastic on the S30. They do exist in metal but were never part of the S30 production. All the rest of the emblems were metal on 3/70. The plastic replacement quarter emblem "240Z" has a white painted Z and there are white painted Z metal emblems, however I believe that a 3/70 car would have had chromed Z emblems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Beck Posted October 21, 2008 Share #7 Posted October 21, 2008 Hi Chris:By 03/70 the chaissis number were well up into the 2500 series...I've never seen chrome Z's on cars built after 01/70. Not saying they couldn't have existed... but I doubt the chrome Z's were produced in numbers greater than 1000 or 1500 before the final design with the raised outlined Z's painted white were in production.When we polled them, the only original owners that I could find that had chrome Z's - were the people that had 69 production year Z's.FWIW,Carl B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diseazd Posted October 21, 2008 Share #8 Posted October 21, 2008 Carl......My 5/70 1970 has the metal emblems on the tailgate. Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToXIc Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share #9 Posted October 21, 2008 (edited) my metal pillar badges have the white "Z" and my hatch has a plastic emblem but the weird thing is that when i bought the car it had a metal hatch emblem with a chrome "Z" in the trunk Edited October 21, 2008 by ToXIc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26th-Z Posted October 22, 2008 Share #10 Posted October 22, 2008 Yep! My apologies. The parts book shows 76807-E4600 and 76808-E4600 up to February 1970. I keep thinking it was later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HS30-H Posted October 22, 2008 Share #11 Posted October 22, 2008 Interestingly, the 'FairladyZ' and 'Fairlady' script emblems - and the 'Z' bonnet / hood emblem - seen on the Japanese market cars continued to be made from die-cast mazak well past 1973.When the L24-engined Japanese market models debuted in late 1971, their mazak 'Fairlady' script emblems were paired with the injection moulded plastic '240Z' emblems that were seen on the Export market cars. A metal emblem and a plastic emblem side by side........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToXIc Posted October 22, 2008 Author Share #12 Posted October 22, 2008 my metal pillar badges have the white "Z" and my hatch has a plastic emblem but the weird thing is that when i bought the car it had a metal hatch emblem with a chrome "Z" in the trunksorry i got to correct myself... the metal hatch emblem i have has the white Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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