anyone else in the 5 year plus club?

[St.stephen]

just checking to see who else has had a restoration going on over 5 years. I have 7 years and three moves logged on my 74 260!

Although I have had 6 cars total in all sorts of condition, my 74 is receiving the "polish everything with a diaper" treatment.

[Rob]

My Z is still a future restoration project but the Westfield I built took me 6 years...

What's a Westfield?

Here:

[ozlime240z]

I love westfields.

One day I'm going to own a Lotus Super 7.

and a Lotus Elise, and a Lotus Elan.....

And a Ferrari GTO, and a E-type, a Porsche 356......

And a 350Z, STI, GTR, EVO ?, RX7.......

and a Softop 60's Mustang, 60's Vette, ............

you get the picture I love cars. And I love driving them.

OzLime240Z

[mperdue]

Little under a year since I started my mess but I predict it'll be somewhere around 5 before I get it on the road. I'm slow and have 0 experience...

Michael

[sjcurtis]

I am restoring my daily driver one part at a time, started in 92 and it is in the shop for sheet metal and paint at this time, then comes interior and trim. So that is TEN years and still going, but it is a daily driver.

Westfield "WESTFIELD" (HMMMMM !!!!! goes like hell turns and stops) got to love that.

So that my story one on restore and one in storage waiting. Thats my lemon yellow 12/71 in storage on the trailer waiting its turn.

[Mike]

Good topic...

I've been working on my project ever since I took the fenders off in 1996. This is where she is today (well, back in 2000 I stopped working on her).

http://www.classiczcars.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=3048&ppuser=4&thumb=1

So, that makes it almost 8 years. Holy crap, I never really counted.....

[St.stephen]

Good to know that I am not the only one then. My friends and relatives have declared that I do not leave the house that I am in until this car is done. They have moved all the crates of parts and the shell three times now and they feel that is enough.

My one big excuse was that I was in an apartment for three years after I started the restoration.

However I have been cranking along. The garage has been staying about 60 degrees and it has been in the teens here in jersey so progress is moving along.

I dig the westie pic! nice car.

Mike your car looks wonderful! I can't wait to see that completed. I can't wait to see mine completed.

ozlime240..I'll see your wish list and raise you a few....

1971 Miura

1963 GTB 250

1969 246 Dino

1968 Austin Healy 3000

[St.stephen]

ahhhhh one of my dream cars!!!

[St.stephen]

ALright one last reply.......Mike I saw that you didn't have the battery tray tacked in??

[Mike]

Originally posted by St.stephen

ALright one last reply.......Mike I saw that you didn't have the battery tray tacked in??

Ah, you noticed that.. I have the tray, but, it's out of the car. I had it powder-coated and I want to drill some holes and bolt it in place. This is to allow easy removal for cleaning under the tray. I sure wish Nissan would have thought of this when they designed the car. The battery-tray area is known 'bad' area on Z's.

[St.stephen]

Alright I feel better now:classic:

I picked up a 78 that had the tray removed and the battery was placed directly in the fender well. Phew.....bad move.

COnsequently the area underneath the battery is gone all the way to the frame rail, this led into the area on inside of the fender well, gone...as well as from where the frame rail meets the firewall, atleast 7 inches of the firewall from the frame rail to indside rocker....gone.

Sooooooo, if you are inside the passenger side of the car standing on the garage floor (no floor left) you can see the front tire and completely inside the engine compartment. Enormous welding/fabrication project to say the least. I may not keep this shell. My buddy works for phoenix auto restorations near my home and his brother owns a boneyard in Arizona. He has been trying to get me to break down and have a shell shipped. We'll see. the welding and fabrication does not intimidate me in the least however I do not know if I am really wanting to put in the effort as the structural pillar that the door bolts to is starting to go.

The structural rot is what stalls me. This is one of the worst cases of Z rot I have seen.

[Mike]

Sounds like you definitely need a new shell. I wouldn't even be able to think about taking on a job like that. If you have the right tools and the ability, then it might be ok.