Today I found a 1983 280zx that I MUST have! The owner is not mechanically inclined so all work performed on vehicle was done at various shops. Owner has over 24000.00{ yep that was twenty four thousand dollars} in reciepts for all NEW parts and upgrades. I had recently turned him on to someone who had a 1972 240 Z  that had been totally restored for 5000.00. He was so impressed and felt he owed me something so he offered me the 1983 for 3500.00.Almost everything on this car is new or rebuilt and even though hes owned car for 14 years... hes actually only driven car fo 6 months because it was in shop alot having new parts installed or upgraded. Anyway I wanted to share the deal with people that would appreciatte what Ive found here. Thanks for listening.

 

 

Nice! How many miles?

10 hours ago, Crazy477280Z said:

Almost everything on this car is new or rebuilt and even though hes owned car for 14 years... hes actually only driven car fo 6 months because it was in shop alot having new parts installed or upgraded. Anyway I wanted to share the deal with people that would appreciatte what Ive found here. Thanks for listening.

 

 

 

Could be a good deal or could be a pig.  In the shop for thirteen and a half years of the fourteen years he owned it?  I would probe deeper.

As for the $5,000 total restoration on the '72 Z..................is there a zero missing from that figure?

Dennis

 

 

10 hours ago, Crazy477280Z said:

Almost everything on this car is new or rebuilt and even though hes owned car for 14 years... hes actually only driven car fo 6 months because it was in shop alot having new parts installed or upgraded. Anyway I wanted to share the deal with people that would appreciatte what Ive found here. Thanks for listening.

 

 

 

Could be a good deal or could be a pig.  In the shop for thirteen and a half years of the fourteen years he owned it?  I would probe deeper.

As for the $5,000 total restoration on the '72 Z..................is there a zero missing from that figure?

Dennis

 

 

12 hours ago, Crazy477280Z said:

upgrades.

What are the upgrades?  

 

4 hours ago, psdenno said:

 

Could be a good deal or could be a pig.  In the shop for thirteen and a half years of the fourteen years he owned it?  I would probe deeper.

As for the $5,000 total restoration on the '72 Z..................is there a zero missing from that figure?

Dennis

 

 

To some people a few mechanical repairs and a respray is a Restoration.

May have been 20 years ago also.

To answer all who commented/questioned my find the other day.... The 83 has 87047 miles on odot. so call it 187047. The motor was rebuilt in Feb. of 2008 at approx. 18000 according to owner. I have reciepts verifying date but not mileage of time of rebuild. As for the 72 240z... It was restored in Calif. but Ihave no idea what was paid for resto. I do know this person wanted a vette in Seattle and it was a time sensitive deal and he needed 5000 to finalize. He approached me with the offer and Ihad just bought a 79 zx 2 days before and I just didnt have money so I turned the owner of this 83 onto it and he bought it. Now since I turned him onto such a good deal (Hell-unbelievable deal) he says he would like to do same for me. Ive done close to 1500.00 worth of work on his 240 and worked on his various other vehichles. Hope that answers all.

 

Whoops I forgot you Zed.Sorry! These are the upgrades I have reciepts for. Now maybe you can see why all the shop time and not much driving time. Here goes in no particular order : Hurst shifter-adj. thermostat -New tranny mount - New tensioner - Rear diff. R-200 rebuilt - adj.fuel press reg. - High volume Holly fuel pump - New injectors - New exhaust headers and Monza tips - New interior carpet seats dash and padded armrest on center console - HP NAPS intake - electric fan shroud sensor - adj.Tokiko struts - All new Auto Meter white face guages including boost and fuel/air mixture guage - Crane ignition - New heater core heater control assembly and new cables - Paint job in 2009 - New computer that had soething else done to it that costs 467.59 - Hyper voltage system 400.00 ? - Hyper grounding system 400.00? - 900.00 worth of soundproofing - All new brakes from lines mstr cyl rotors calipers - New clutch master and slave cyl. - New oil cooler - High vol. oil pump - Heat shield kit - New T/4 Turbo - New intercooler - All new piping and fittings - Header wrap - New air regulator - New Crane cam - 8mm plug wires plat.plugs Accell cap rotor - water pump - end pt. 1

 

 

 

 

Pt. 2...Upgrades cont...Grant mahagony steering wheel - Cold air intake - Seat brackets and new belts - Rollbar - New tie rods ball joints and alignment - New weatherstripping - EVERY bushing was replaced at same time throughout car - Nose bra - New coil springs - Halogen headlights - Tinted headlight covers - New rear shocks - Aluminum driveshaft - slotted rotors - New u-joints on driveshaft and axles - Rebuilt Motorcraft 5 speed tranny - New wiper arms and wipers - Widows were tinted - New BF Goodrich radial T/As raised white letter - New 15 inch Centerline wheels. This is everything I have reciepts for and it totals up to 17327.00.He suppossedly threw away over 8000.00 in reciepts because they were for parts only not labor charges. He also has 23 full size totes full of various years of 280zx parts that he has collected from wrecking yards car shows etc. I did end up buying it this afternoon.What can I do? i dont know if a deal like this will ever come my way again.Well...What do ya think now that you know what was done. Idid verify parts with own eyes. This guy ewenscrubbed underside of car then primed and painted. It still looks brand new on the underside. Let me know what you think.

 

Naps intake is a pollution control  not high performance.

Edited March 2, 20169 yr by black gold man

Sounds like that guy didn't like spending time with his wife, as in he stayed in the shop and she stayed in the house. 

 

5 hours ago, black gold man said:

Naps intake is a pollution control  not high performance.

I called prev. owner about NAPS intake... not being mech. enabled he wasnt even sure about intake location. I can see that emission junk has been removed...EGR valve air pump etc from car. He was told by a local Nissan mech that the NAPS intake would work fine but wasnt told about emission aspects. Ime going to get her right now and see just what I jumped into. Post more later.