Baltimore listing

[Hardway]

Its still up after 5 days.  Show up with a trailer and cash.  Offer $500, let them counter at $1K, offer $700 and hopefully take it home.  What others have said is right, its hard to sell common Z parts.  The front bumper (depending on condition), console, AM radio, Nardi wheel w/rare Datsun horn button, console, ash tray lid, and a few more odds and ends are where the money is.  You would almost have to get the car for free to make it worth your while but if you were going to be using the parts on your own car then it would be worth it. If I was closer I would go scoop it up.  I have the money and the room!

[grannyknot]

8 hours ago, rossiz said:

i agree w/the skepticism re: parting a z car. i haven't been able to sell a single part, and i've got plenty, all in good shape. heck, it's been hard to give the stuff away - i posted on the "pay it forward" thread and still have 95% of the stuff in my garage. when i was building ducatis, every nut and bolt was quickly snapped up on the used market and i could confidently estimate what i would get parting out a donor bike after i harvested the parts i needed to offset the build. with the z, i'm really surprised how nobody seems to want the stuff.

maybe we all bought z cars because they are (or were) an inexpensive alternative to get into the sports car world and the z community is too cheap? i'm moving in a couple of months and may need to take a trailer load of parts to the dump. 

I have 3-4 boxes full of Z stuff that I haul to our Z club swapmeet twice a year, all of it in very good condition but I generally haul it all back and put it up on the shelves again along with all the extra Z stuff I just purchased at the swapmeet. Can't sell it, can't stop buying it.

[Terrapin Z]

I have picked up cars that look like this for $200 - $300 though they were later 72, 73, 74 vintage. At least it has the ashtray / fuse cover (if not damaged), and the radio as other have mentioned (good $ there). At a minimum there's money in the carbs. even as cores to ZT and hubs and stub axles are always a good seller. struts can be swapped for TTT credit if you like their products or sold outright. Might have an E31 head too. (?) or an early E88.

Like others I have a pile of parts I can't throw out, but nobody seems to want. I even did the $1.00 per pound offer on CL once and did move some things, better than the .03 cents a pound for scrap I get for the really rusty parts.  

$1500 would be a bit steep for me, but if you show up with cash and make an offer, who knows.  worth looking into I'd say. (my 2 cents)

 

[Captain Obvious]

Exactly. I got a similar 3-4 boxes!    Maybe what we need is a trading thread where I can trade some of my box contents for some of your box contents! The contents just can't be identical, can they?

Maybe a thread where you just list what you have. Not a for sale thread, but a list of what you have surplus, and what you'd rather have?