Gidday all,

Noticed a Zed in town yesterday with a G nose and I'm wondering what it could have been. It had Fairlady Z on the side front guard. It didn't have the two front guard mirror though

Any ideas?

I guess you all are asleep......any ideas ?????

Sorry 240znz, I must have missed that one first time around.

My guess is that it was not a "real" 240ZG, but a half-replica. If you do not know the owner, then you would not be able to tell you about it - but I would have thought this might be a little confection that he put together himself.

Major clues to it NOT being an original one are as follows:

*Genuine 240ZG's have "Fairlady 240Z" emblems ( the one you saw said "Fairlady Z" - which would either point to the car being an S30 or S30-S that somebody put a G-Nose on to, or a New Zealand market car that someone put "Fairlady Z" badges onto ).

*Genuine 240ZG's always had the fibreglass "Overfenders" when they left the factory. What about the one you saw? Of course, it is possible that someone could have taken them off if they did not like them ( I have seen this in Japan ).

*Lack of Japanese-market mirrors makes it sound like a non Japanese-market car.

The above would tend to make it look like you saw a local market car with an aftermarket G-Nose and "Fairlady Z" badges - which are actually wrong for a "real" ZG.

Once a ZG always a ZG. Even if you took all the ZG-specific parts off a ZG and made it look like any other S30-series Z, it would still be a ZG ( HS30-H ) because that's what it left the factory as. This works the other way too; simply adding ( even genuine ) ZG parts to an HS30 does NOT make it a genuine ZG.

A good friend of mine is just about to emigrate to NZ, and he's a renowned Z specialist / tuner from here in the UK. Once he's settled in I'll give you his contact details. He really knows how to work on these cars...........

Hope the above helped a little.

All the best,

Alan T.