JDMjunkies , thank you for sharing very interesting materials, let me see , I am having fun to read all of them . 

Blue, more home work about temporary license plate,  I have heard red rectangular plate is for car company, they can use it to any cars in their car. While private drivers  can have one temporary plate for one car.In that case , a Red diagonal line on the plate. I will show some from some magazines in Japan. 

Mr. K loved silver , was it reason for two test cars in the US were silver? Design team brought a silver full scale model to a final presentation to the Nissan executives .

Kats

Edited March 12, 20186 yr by kats

A temporary license plate on my car.

Kats

Another temporary plate on cars which were used for test , press , etc.

 Courtesy ‘ Motor Fan ‘ omnibus book.

Kats

 

Fantastic photos Kats!   Detective work is fun.

 

This is a nice one too... I think the plate was picked from their stock of plates  on purpose.

LHD 240z Promotion Photo (driving in Japan)

 

Edited March 15, 20186 yr by 240260280

Just added notes 

Kats

It's interesting to see the suspension specs. Nice detective work ?

8 hours ago, NVZEE said:

It's interesting to see the suspension specs. Nice detective work ?

Thanks NVZEE , I corrected “ pitch “ to “ posture “ , because it is actually said “ 車輌姿勢 “ ( vehicle’s posture ) .

Engineers lowered only front , rear remained the same as other market car .

So if I say pitch , it doesn’t express this engineer’s work correctly. 
 

Again Why they lowered 15mm in front ? The reason is S30 has a tendency of lifting up in front 10mm when it is cruising. It’s posture becomes not level ,  attitude is up in front .

Kats

Edited January 13, 20205 yr by kats

Hi!

I'm Mário and I'm from Portugal...recently I restores my Z...a Portuguese one!

Well, I learn a lot reading this topic, and I found some interesting features, like the 432 suspension and many other details.

I can confirm about the stabilizer bars sizes and all extras our Portuguese Z's have! 

It's very interesting because my Z is the lowest vin in Portugal, sold and registered in August 71, but the manufacture month is March. 

There are 70 Z's sold in this year (71) and all with lowest vins...mine is HLS30U-23644...there are several diferences from the others sold during 72 and in the end by 73.

Mine has rear and front spoiler, vertical defrost lines, kobe seiko wheels, blue windows, two interior air buttons, passenger foot rest, different gear box, 1st series center console, plastic engine ventilator, engine bay light, 71 vertical antena radio and many more...above the gloves compartment there are 4 letter, and accordong to a doce, they, the portuguese Z's, where specific for our market...but it's hard to find such information.

From 71 to 73 only 139 were sold...these days, less than 45 are running...

here are some photos of my Z...It's all std...no modifications...even the engine and compartment parts.

 

   

Edited February 28, 20205 yr by Datsunbat

I was in Lisbon in 2018 and bought some NOS parts from a nice previous z owner. It was a 1974. 

 

He shared these photos:

 

Edited February 28, 20205 yr by 240260280

6 minutes ago, Datsunbat said:

...mine is HLS30U-23644...

Mário,

As I've mentioned to you before, I don't understand why you keep referring to your Portuguese market car as an 'HLS30U' model.

Have you got any evidence to back up the use of that 'U' suffix on the variant code?

Awesome! This car still exists and it was red when new!!!

It's vin is HLS30-092212 and is a 72. Until now he had 12 owners ans the last one until the moment is from 1998, and the engine number is L24-116221...so cool to see old photos!!! ahahah...

Here we had many parts, but now all has to be bought online from Japan or USA, because Nissan Ibérica is not dealing right with old cars, unfortunately!

Edited February 28, 20205 yr by Datsunbat

2 minutes ago, HS30-H said:

Mário,

As I've mentioned to you before, I don't understand why you keep referring to your Portuguese market car as an 'HLS30U' model.

Have you got any evidence to back up the use of that 'U' suffix on the variant code?

Yes, is written on the tittle and always is refered as "U"...even old people the used to work with these cars say it!