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[Bonzi Lon]

Bonzi, 

 

I know that the 915 Blue was a '72 and '73 color versus the 903 Blue on the '70 and '71 240Zs. Is the 903 Blue darker? What are the differences?

 

Steve:  Here is a link to the color chips, , they both look close but I think the 915 is a little brighter, a little more 'pop'.  I had HLS30-00110 that was blue/blue covered in black paint but can't remember the difference because of the black.  It is my understanding the blue/white is the second rarest ( meaning less made) than the blue/blue.  It is your car so do as you want, just giving you another option. 

 

Bonzi Lon 

 

The link didn't work, it is in Carl Beck's ZHome site, left side clear at the bottom.  Sorry, I'm computer stupid. 

Edited December 28, 2015 by Bonzi Lon

[siteunseen]

Let's see if this works. 

 

http://www.zhome.com/History/ZColorGallary/

[Bonzi Lon]

That's the one, thanks.

 

Bonzi Lon

[lonetreesteve]

On 12/28/2015 at 4:49 AM, Bonzi Lon said:

 

Steve:  Here is a link to the color chips, , they both look close but I think the 915 is a little brighter, a little more 'pop'.  I had HLS30-00110 that was blue/blue covered in black paint but can't remember the difference because of the black.  It is my understanding the blue/white is the second rarest ( meaning less made) than the blue/blue.  It is your car so do as you want, just giving you another option. 

http://www.zhome.com/History/ZColorGallary/

Bonzi Lon

Thanks, Bonzi (and thanks to Siteunseen for the link). Looks like Nissan calls 903 Blue 'Universal Blue or 'Dark Blue') and the 115 Blue is called 'Metallic Blue'. I have attached 2 pictures from the Zhome Color Gallery link of the 903 Blue and the single picture shown on the link for 115 Blue. Looking at the pictures, I think you are right, Bonzi, the 115 does "pop" better than the 903 Blue.  

As far as the rarity of the blue/blue versus the blue/white is concerned, according to Zhome the only blue/white combination was in 1972 since the 1973 combo was actually an "off-white" color.  Also according to Zhome, there were only about half as many '70 and '71 240Zs produced (a little over 56,000 combined) and more than twice as many '72 and '73 240Zs produced (over 108,000 combined). Also, there were 9 available colors on '70 and '71 cars versus just 8 different colors in '72 and in '73. My understanding is that Nissan did not keep production numbers of how many blue 240Zs were made or any other paint color for that matter, as well as the vinyl color numbers.

However, after considering the production number comparisons and the number of available colors in '72 (over 58,000 240Zs produced). Just to get a rough estimate, if you were to divide the 58,000 '72 240Zs produced by 8, it would equal 7,250 Blue 1972 240Zs, which all had white interiors. Then if you take the 56,000 '70 and '71 Blue cars produced divided by 9, it would equal 6,222 cars and using a rough estimate of 50% of them had black interiors and the other half had blue interiors, that would work out to be an estimated 3,111 blue/blue combination '70 and '71 240Zs, making the '70-'71 blue/blue rarer than the '72 blue/white combination.

[Bonzi Lon]

When I had HLS30-00110, I went through the list of cars on Z-Home and was able to find only 5 blue/blue combos in the first 3500 vin's of current owners.  Gave up after that many.  The off white interior parts are only available now, not the real white of the 70-72.  The SEM vinyl dye called 'Super White 15103' matches perfect to the off white available now.  MSA used it on a black tail finisher I got from them to replace the old off white one I had as an original, matched perfect to the rest of the interior.

 

Bonzi Lon