What is this 70 rolling chassis worth?

[jmortensen]

#6301, just picked it up expecting to strip parts off of it and junk it. Has the original motor (I assume) with E31 which doesn't look like it has been cut. Trans is in the passenger compartment. No interior outside of pedals and the heater. No hood, no hatch, no doors. Sounds great, right.

Now for the good part. This thing is really solid! It was kind of rolled up on top of a little tiny hill, and I guess that kept the rain off for the most part. Frame is very straight, just a dent on the passenger's side rail and a dent in the pass floor. Never jacked up on the fenders in front, and they look like they have almost no rust at all. Rear quarters are also surprisingly rust free. There are some bubbles here and there, but when I got it on the trailer I was pretty shocked at how nice it is.

Don't know what this would be worth. Never tried to sell a low rust series 1 roller with a sunroof. What do you think?

[jmortensen]

Update, rust in battery tray, in rear hatch area, and pass side floor just ahead of the seat bracket (decent size hole in the floor).

[nix240z]

IMHO the sunroof will hurt a bid on the price, so I say around $1000-$1200 max.

If it was near me I would give $1000 if it had a title.

Steve

[240260280z]

There is a guy on this forum in Wa looking for an early Z. He may be interested.

[jmortensen]

Is his name Ian? He saw the pics and was pretty excited, then when he realized how much was missing the enthusiasm waned. This is a rolling chassis. Good project for a person with a rotted 240/260/early 280 with the parts to swap over and make a whole car.

[240260280z]

I need that chassis to give vin147 new life but you and I are on opposite oceans.

I'll buy some of the small stuff if you part it out.

[jmortensen]

Well, here it is: 1970 240Z rolling chassis, 1970, $ 1,000.00

$1000 for the chassis, or $1350 for the chassis with my rotisserie and an engine hoist and load leveler. I also have the hatch, doors, hood and a bunch of other miscellaneous parts from my 70 that weren't used on my race car, so I'd be willing to make a deal to include some of that stuff if interested.

[RevS30]

Man, too bad I have too many cars. I actually bought 6302 a couple years ago from Napa California and would love to have its "brother" from the assembly line. GLWS hope someone buys it and brings it back to life instead of ending up at the scrap yard in pieces.

[jmortensen]

Nobody has even given me a nibble on this thing, so I'm taking it apart. Will try again before it goes to the JY to offer the chassis less the parts I've removed and the short block (#'s match, I verified that) for $200. That's what the JY will give me, and I'd rather it be saved. It will have no suspension on it, so it will need to be dragged onto a trailer. Done that before by screwing a couple 2x4s to the floor on another car, worked fine.

Anyway if anyone is interested in parts off of this shell (Blue), email me at mortensenjone AT gmail DOT com. I'm on a bunch of forums and lists and I think email will help to keep everything straight.

[240260280z]

If I had a way to get it home, I would have picked it up a month ago.... I will be flying over Wa next week....I'll drop a rope from the jet.

[jmortensen]

I dove into this thing yesterday, and I think people may have been seeing something in the pics that I wasn't seeing up close. I'd say more than half of the bolts I've tried to remove have sheared off. Started pulling the fenders and rust just poured out from behind them. It's weird. Hardly a bubble on the outside, but the inside is just completely gone.

With that in mind I'm scaling back my plans cutting some of the good stuff off (rear quarters)and dumping the shell.

The motor had water in 4 and 6 I think it was, so the valves and seats are rusty, but it is looking good in the coolant passages, where the E31 typically corrodes a lot. The head is worth using for sure.

[jmortensen]

Put a bunch of small parts from this car and some other stuff I had laying around the garage on ebay. Just added more stuff today:

mortensen.jon | eBay