Just wanted to say hi officially. On Friday I just bought my first Z! A 1971 240. Bought it from a friend at work who got it 2 years ago. The previous owner to that did an amazing job getting it restored. Looks new all over. Needs a few little odds and ends and one major one...a manual trans Future plans are coilovers, wheels (Rewinds or Rota RKR's), headlight covers, and the manual trans. Really have been enjoying it so far. I've wanted an orange 240z for as long as I can remember. Really happy about it. It joins a couple other Japanese icons in my garage...my 91 LoveFab turbo NSX and my 74 Kawasaki Z1 900.

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Welcome and congratulations...You got yourself a real beauty!!

Looks like a beauty! That's the way to buy them..!! I'm sure you will really enjoy driving it… take a long weekend, and take it on a long trip - and use the secondary roads..

Carl B.

Truely a nice purchase. That is the way I like to buy them. Driveable and ready to be made perfect. I like to call them rolling restorations!

Enjoy the ride man!

Welcome to the Group! Always good to see another '71 added to the list. I've been driving mine for about 43 years and hope to get a few more years of fun out of it.

Dennis

Blodi,

Congratulations on your new Z! 918 orange is my favorite color on the 240Z's also, but I ended up with my second favorite of yellow. Out of curiousity, what is the manufacture date and VIN of your car?

Robert S.

Nice catch!

That is truly a fine looking car. Congratulations on your find and being wise enough to grab it. Welcome to the group.

Thanks guys! I'm really excited about it and can't wait to enjoy the car all summer. Looking forward to learning more as I go and being a part of the group here. Robert, yellow would have been my 2nd choice too, but I was very lucky to find such a nice example in orange. The build date is 9/71 and the vin is 43319.

Great looker of a car you have there! Welcome! I'm sure you will find any info you need on here when the time comes. If you enjoy her now, wait until you pop in a good old 5 speed. Or were you going for a 4?

Great looker of a car you have there! Welcome! I'm sure you will find any info you need on here when the time comes. If you enjoy her now, wait until you pop in a good old 5 speed. Or were you going for a 4?

Already sourced a 5 speed here locally...and had the previous owner had the pedal box already, so I'm on my way....slowly.

beautiful car. welcome to the fold. which 5-speed did you capture?

beautiful car. welcome to the fold. which 5-speed did you capture?

5 speed wide ratio....will that be a decent combo with my auto rear end? I'm still learning.