EScanlon,

Thanks for the input. I think you're right. I'm keeping things mostly stock for sentimental reasons. I got Jasper to rebuild my engine and send it back to me even though I could have gotten another on exchange. I somehow am more comfortable with that. As far as a show quality type restoration goes I don't think I'd ever want to do that. Sure, I'll polish things up here and there. However, if the only disadvantage of going with a non-original color is losing a few points at a car show or a few hundred dollars on a resale then I'm not going to worry. It looks like the people at <a href =http://www.datsunrestore.com/catalog.html> Too Intense </a> offer just about all of the interior components in lots of colors (including non-stock colors). The only thing missing there are the plastic panels.

The plastic panels are available from Les and Dennis at Classic Datsun Motorsports for about $400 AIR, but only in black. You'd need to dye them to the color that you want.

Yes, that's the only place I've seen them. Their web page actually says "colors, add 10%", but doesn't mention if any other colors are available and if so, which. At this point I'm thinking a nice blue exterior with a grey interior might be nice. Here's the Infiniti color that I like; how do you guys think it would look on a Z?

The 10% add'l is for them to dye the panels for you. I didn't ask what colors they offer. Since I didn't want dyed panels. Probably whatever colors of SEM dye they can get.

When I eventually get to the interior of my car, I'll switch to black as I didn't really care for the white anyway. Grey would look nice though.

That blue exterior would look good I think