Determining Paint Code

[DREAMZ]

How can I determine the proper paint code for my '71 Z?

[2ManyZs]

You will have to find out what the original color was, and if the sticker is gone or illegible, the paint codes can be found on www.zhome.com

Look near the bottom of the left column under restoring/refreshing and the interior/extior paint colors are all listed there.

There were only 8 original colors in the US so it shouldn't be hard to figure out which one it was....

[mperdue]

I've got a gallery of representative Z's painted the stock colors. It's not finished yet but here it is anyway:

http://www.utdallas.edu/~perdue/paintcodes.html

As far as figuring out what color your car was, it's not coded in the VIN or anything like that. Dig under the carpets or under the dash or look for the sticker over the radiator like 2manyZ's said.

Michael

[DREAMZ]

Thanks for the info. I'm sure I 'll be asking many more questions in the future.

[1 Bravo 6]

G'Day,

I spoke to the local Nissan dealer ref. original paint code for my 260 Z.

All they required was the engine number and body numberof the car.

Came back to me with the code number which I passed on to the spray painter. He started pressing the magic buttons on his computer, entered the code 301, the computer told him it was Brown metalic and gave him the ingredients required.

He did a test panel, perfect match!!!!

Don't give up on your local Nissan dealer just yet, you never know WHAT might lay forgotten on a dusty shelf.

Rick.

[HS30-H]

Hi Rick,

You are lucky that the Australian dealers obviously kept a good record of what they imported back in the 1970's.

Contrast this with my usual experience with UK dealerships who have no idea that Nissan even made something called a Z before the Z32...........

A car magazine borrowed one of my old cars to do a photo shoot ( it was a UK-spec. 1973 240Z ) and they took it to Nissan UK's headquarters at Rickmansworth to use as a backdrop. Lots of staff came out of the offices during the shoot and had absolutely no idea what they were looking at.

Sign of the times I suppose...........

Alan T.

[Alfadog]

It kinda makes you want to be a car salesman... well at least that's how I feel

[Mr Camouflage]

Reminds me of the phrase "Don't ask me, I just work here"

[EScanlon]

At a local Friday's, my wife and I had gone there for, coincidentally, Friday Night Dinner and drinks. I ran into a salesman for one of the Nissan Dealerships, who was introduced to me by the daughter of the manager of the same dealership. (They were out together after a college event of some sort and she knows my wife and I.)

As I pointed my car out to the girl, the guy with her chimed in with (and keep in mind that he's a Nissan car salesman out with the boss' daughter.) "Oh, is that the 240Z, that's cool, that's the one with the rotary engine isn't it?"

The look on the girl's face said it all.