27 minutes ago, motorman7 said:

The comment he made is that some of the nicer VIN’s below S/N 500 are selling for over $100K to private sellers.  That is pretty fascinating.

Great picture!  WOW!  $100K for a non-432 Z.  We all know values for original series-1 cars are rising pretty quickly but I was not aware they had hit that mark.  Being a 3-digit VIN car is a plus but $100K is air cooled turbo Porsche money and knocking on the door of other Italian sports cars. 

Edited June 12, 20177 yr by Hardway

I don't remember when or where exactly I said it but I predicted 100k cars before too long. Less than a year I believe, sooner than even I expected

Had a great weekend at the La Jolla Concours this weekend.  Brought my 1970 240Z and the roadster.  This is the first year that the La Jolla show has had a Japanese Class so I had to offer my full support.  It was a fabulous show as always and had a great time. The party the night before was epic and way worth high entry fee (The party is an all you can eat and drink affair catered by La Jolla's finest restaurants).  Anyway, I was interviewed by the local TV station, KUSI, I will try and find a video clip of that.  I also was presented the "Honorary Judges Choice Award/Trophy" which is probably the best award I have ever received.  The Honorary Judge has the entire field to choose from and he chose my Z, just barely, over a Ferarri that he liked.  The emphasis on the award is preservation so that definitely helped.  So, I will try and post some clips if they come available.  The Award presentation was absolutely phenomenal.  I felt like a rock star with all the people at the drive up presentation and photographers.  They talked for about two minutes about the car and the award while the gallery and photographers snapped pics.  Was way cool.

That's impressive getting the award seeing that there's a 2000GT parked next to you. You faced some stiff competition there. 

TV clip from the local news channel.

KUSI concours video.MOV

What a beautiful and elegant award.  Well done - you make the brand proud!

The judge's got it right!   Beautiful award and car!

5 hours ago, SteveJ said:

That's impressive getting the award seeing that there's a 2000GT parked next to you. You faced some stiff competition there. 

Yes, there were some great cars there.   Mike Malamut's Mazda Cosmo took first in the Japanese class.  His Mazda Rebo and a Honda sport coupe were the 2nd and 3rd place winners.  The Judges graded on restoration excellence. 

The 2000 GT was easily the priciest car in the Japanese class and garnered a lot of attention.  I would venture to say that my Z got almost as much attention as the 2000 GT.  The show was very busy which blows my mind since the cost to enter is way high at $70.  I usually attend the free show outside and peek through the fence at the cars inside.  The cars in the show were just insane; Bugatti's old and new, Rolls Royce's and ton of Mercedes, Duesenbergs, McLarens, a 1963 Lola GT that had like an 8 man pit crew prepping it before the show, a charger Super Bird.  I could go on and on.  Amazing cars and a lot of fun.   Glad the 240Z was well received.

 

Oh, one other cool thing happening here:  the Petersen Museum in LA ( https://www.petersen.org/) is doing a year long exhibition starting in May contrasting Japanese and US car design styles.  They asked if my roadster was available to present as part of the display, so I will be loaning that out to them for a year.  Nice to see the Japanese cars getting some visibility.  Also nice to get some free storage .  I need space

 

 

Maybe one of them will be asked to star in a movie next!

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Great job.  Its good to see the old Datsun finally getting some respect.  In high school, my first car was a '73.  Everyone loved the big low compression cars of the mid '70s.  They were big and had big engines, but they didn't move too fast.  There were only two people that appreciated my old 240z.  My girlfriend at the time (now my wife) and myself.

Here are some of the award links.  Would be nice to have a video of the presentation.  

http://autoweek.com/gallery/car-life/winners-la-jolla-concours     Pic # 23

https://www.lajollaconcours.com/2018-winners

 

Edited April 11, 20187 yr by motorman7

I should update the title of this thread to 'Z cars at the Concours and Museums'.

My '70 is now on display at the San Diego Auto Museum.  They have an exhibit that started Feb 2, 2019 called "Icons, Cars that Drove our Imagination" : https://sdautomuseum.org/exhibit/icons

The Roadster is at the Petersen Museum: https://www.petersen.org/1969-datsun-1600-roadster/

Love that free storage!