Early 1974 260Z For Sale

[SMW]

I am selling my 260Z project car in Davis, CA for around $1,000.

The car ran (on the rich side) about three months ago, before I began the overhaul of the carbs and emissions system in an effort to get the car smogged in CA. I am moving soon, and I don't have the time to spend on this car that it deserves.

What the car has: 2.6 Liter L6 engine, stock 4-speed manual. I have flattops and Weber DGV 32/36 carbs that will go with the car. Both sets need rebuilding to do it right. Brand new radiator. The car has all parts except for the air pump, most hoses, and the air cleaner assy. for the flattops.

Overall, the body is straight. There was rust underneath the battery tray that I treated/covered with POR 15. Rust has damaged the front passenger fender (hole), hatch (~ 6 inch diameter dent). Collision (parking lot, I would guess) damage to rear bumper and rear panel. I have a straight '73 240 rear bumper that could go with the car.

Interior was refreshed maybe 5 years ago by a previous owner.

If anyone is interested, let me know at smwinter@ucdavis.edu and I'll send more info and photos as requested. The car is not running and will have to be towed/trailered away. The title is clear, but is registered as non-operated in CA.

[Mike]

You want to know the funny part... I don't think your car needs to meet emission standards anymore. It might be exempt from the law. Something changed last year (or early this year) in CA which lets a lot more Z owners rip off their emission equipment. You'll have to check with some of the Z owners to see if this is true for the 260z also. Or, at least find a link.

[SMW]

Hi Mike:

I wish that was the case, but unfortunately the emissions cut off date is currently 1973. So my 70 240Z is exempt, but my 1974 260Z has to pass smog even to get registered in CA. If the current law remains in place, the 260 won’t be exempt until 2003.

The bummer is that the car was exempt in Washington, where I purchased the car. Previous owners had removed all of the smog equipment (air pump to EGR) and added the non-CA version Weber DGV’s.

As a sidenote, I read some articles a couple of months ago that indicated that CA may re-institute smog checks for the pre-1973 cars. Anyone heard any follow up info on this?

Cheers,

Steve

[Alfadog]

You know, some people wanting to buy your car will appreciate that very detailed picture. However, it IS a little big. It'd probably be better in future to post a link to the picture, warning people about how big it is. Some people only have reasonably humble Internet speeds, and may become disgruntled for having to wait so long for what they might consider to be a picture with too much detail.

Not trying to be a git, just pointing something out to you.

It's this little thing called netiquette (cool eh?)

[Mike]

Alphadog,

As a moderator, I think you can edit the message. You can save that image to your local hard drive, resize it, and then edit his message (inserting the smaller graphic).

Some people don't know how to modify images like this and they will post the size directly from their camera.

Anyway, it's worth a shot. I can do it if you don't have a program.

[Mike]

Yep, you can edit your own messages. Just click on the EDIT button on the bottom right of the message when you're viewing it. It will then ask you if you want to keep or re-upload a new image.

[SMW]

Take two --

[Mike]

It looks good!! Image size is much smaller and I'm sure people with slower internet connections will thank you.

FYI: It looks like your JPEG compression is pretty high. Natively, JPEG compresses the image very well on a low-compression setting. You will notice little loss that way.

But, your pict looks just fine. I'm just a techie and like to share info about stuff like that.

[SMW]

Let's see how this one works out. I'm counting on you techies to keep me on the straight and narrow here

[Mike]

Yep, that looks pretty good. I imagine you decreased the compression ratio of your jpeg? The picture looks less blotchy (or lossy).

JPEG compression is what they call "lossy"... This means that you lose image quality as you increase the compression ratio.

Most JPEG compression works great at 25% or lower. Anything over 50% can get to be pretty bad.