Depending on how long you're going to be at YAB, you can have up to a year left until your DEROS and TMO will still ship the car if you change your mind. I'm just not sure you have to change anything on a car that old to make it legal to drive in Japan but I understand wanting to preserve a very original Z. I always wondered whether my household goods would end up at the bottom of the Pacific, not likely but *(it happens.

Edited June 22, 201212 yr by gogriz91

The radiator support bracket on 721 was painted black.

Ya know, I don't really know. There's evidence of repaint, at least in the engine bay, as one member here pointed out but I was hoping to meet up with #797 here in Knoxville to compare them side by side to see what was different because I know his has been restored.

If it has, it must have been awhile ago because all the stickers/plates look pretty worn

Can any members here confirm that?

This is mine, its a 10/70 build.

well that is a great picture, since I will be painting mine when I pull the engine soon. now I know exactly what to paint!

Some good pictures of what the original paint on the front of the rad support should look like in this thread: http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/thread45010.html. One picture shows the entire front of the rad support repainted black, but all the originals I have seen have the upper portion still body color with a straight line painted under the fresh air intake holes and the brushed on black paint below that.

-Mike

And that's why this forum is awesome. Someone's bound to know the answer...although I can't seem to get to your link there^^^

Yeah, it looks like the link above didn't work and it won't let me go bad and edit it. Hopefully this one works http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/thread45010.html

-Mike

Wow, 3 years and no update. Thanks for the info Mike B.

 

So, a ton of updates all at once. I went to go pick the car up in Ohio back in May of 2012 shortly after posting those first pics. Most of the links died in the previous posts, so here they are again.








Ownership!


Got a UHaul trailer and towed it back to Wright Pat AFB for the night.



The next day, while we were there, we decided to go to the National Museum of the US Air Force, my parents' first time visiting, my second time. Spent 4 hours there and saw probably 60% of what was there.

Then we saddled up and started the drive back to TN. Overkill?


Back at home.

 

Tooled around in it for a bit before a gunked up gas tank sent rust up through the mechanical pump to the carbs on a local drive, so that took a bit to sort out.

Before:

After:


That November, I left for Japan and I've been coming back about twice a year for a week at a time every year.

While being gone, my brother Jonathan had been taking it to a meet or two.


I went back to the US for training for about 5 weeks starting later April and was close enough to drive home every weekend and mess with both 240Zs for a bit.

Hung the Twice Pipes up a little better




Got the two of them together

The last weekend I was in the US in May 2015, I got the GoPro out and did a quick drive through some back roads near my home in Tennessee. Turned out pretty well. Watch in HD!

This is pretty much my only outlet to enjoy the car since I'm 8,000 miles away from it, so I appreciate when my brother takes it out on drives, shoots a few cell pics, and sends them my way. Here's a few he took yesterday (7 Jul 2015) while near the Sunsphere at World's Fair Park in Knoxville.




 

I do miss driving it, but I don't feel too terribly bad since I finally ended the 6 year no-NSX drought, so I've got that to tool around with in Japan until I come back for good.

 

Edited July 16, 20159 yr by usafdarkhorse

I've met these guys and seen this Z, and I must say it is a beauty.  

Thank you for the detailed update USAFDarkHorse and thank you for your service.  I love your Z!  Makes me want to get out drive mine through some back roads when it cools down a little here in Texas.  Your NSX is beautiful.  The black with the dark silver wheels just looks perfect. A fitting car to cruise around in Japan.