Early Fairlady Z

Mike B · April 22, 2017

I may have an extra 2000 OHC valver cover. I ended up buying two from Japan for my own 1970 Fairlady Z.

Sent from my SM-G935P using Classic Zcar Club mobile

70 Fairlady Z · April 22, 2017

I sent you a msg, tks Mike

70 Fairlady Z · March 25, 2019

On 4/20/2017 at 7:48 AM, HS30-H said:

Congratulations on your new purchase.

What was the chassis number of this car again? I don't recall it being a 1969 car from previous discussions elsewhere...

I'm also interested in those rear arches. Not to pour scorn on the story, but what were Nissan Aomori doing installing custom (metal?) flared arches on a customer car (unusual...) and surely they could have fitted the 432-R Sports Option rear overfenders instead? I'm interested to hear more.

For the record (you may not agree...) it makes my teeth itch to see an early Japanese market car being referred to as a "Series 1". I can understand why such terms have become vernacular in efforts to distinguish between major production date changes on Export market models, but they don't apply to the Japanese market models in the same way and in any case Nissan themselves certainly never used the 'Series 1/2/3' etc terms themselves.

Sorry I can't help you with the valve cover, but watch this space for early Japanese market 'Z' quarter emblem repros in the pipeline. I might have some other RHD-specific parts you need, so don't hesitate to ask.

Status of the pillar emblems repros? Hung Vu was having some made too...

HS30-H · March 25, 2019

1 hour ago, 70 Fairlady Z said:

Status of the pillar emblems repros? Hung Vu was having some made too...

Stalled. I wanted to have them low pressure die cast like the originals were, but the cost of tooling here in the UK was just too prohibitive. I believe I reported the situation on the FLZ Facebook group.

Looks like Hung Vu is coming up with the goods though, so you should be able to get a pair one way or the other.