240z 1960's Testing

[240260280]

Here is a good frame with the front grill.

The bulge in the hood does not seem as pointy too.... but it could be lighting.

Perhaps rubber in front centre of bumper too.

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[26th-Z]

I have that video.  Be careful of the DVD 'region' because Japanese produced DVDs don't normally play in North American machines.  I had to get an "all region" DVD player to see it.  I have several other DVDs with the same dilemma. 

[kats]

Blue , we are learning every day!

About the not pointy hood , I remember Mr. Tamura and Mr. Yoshida told me that they were trying to shape the hood front edge not pointy . 
 

Mr. Tamura did free hand drawings for me at the dinner table , he explained how they wanted to be the headlight case . You see “ r 5 “ next to the head light case . To match the case , Mr. Tamura and Mr. Yoshida were making the head light cover trim ring as “ not pointy “ . 
 

Personally , I am a big fan of its sharp edge 

of the case . Early original is the sharpest due to aging I think , later metal case is never be that sharp on top of the edge . 
 

Here is the reference thread which contains the report of a dinner with Mr . Tamura and Mr . Yoshida .

Kats

Edited December 15, 2019 by kats

[240260280]

On 12/13/2019 at 4:36 PM, 26th-Z said:

Where are you getting the photos, Blue?  Are you clipping them from the video?  Or, has someone already clipped them?  These are all from a Nissan promotional video.

Look closely at you photo of the vinyl top / rear spoiler.  See the shark grills?

 

 

Hi Chris,

First. WOW.... you are great to see those "shark gills"!  I thought it was just wrinkles from a first attempt at a vinyl top.  That my help narrow the time of the wind tunnel and dust resilience test videos. (Sorry I ran out of "likes" for today but "LIKE" to you!!!!)

 

Here is where I stumbled across the early testing video. The later part shows the neat stuff:

https://global.nissannews.com/ja-JP/videos/video-e3f77bf0445dce99ca6040492d01a69c-240z_s30_heritage

 

Some of the pictures above are from frame captures and tweaking of resolution and lighting to bring out points of interest

 

I dug a bit more and found a few shots here:

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&rurl=translate.google.ca&sl=ja&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://nissangallery.jp/ghq/mikoukai_201401/&xid=17259,15700021,15700186,15700190,15700256,15700259,15700262,15700265,15700271,15700283&usg=ALkJrhif64yf2GBxy6LKqyizt2dI9P0rSQ

 

I believe the first Shark Gill car above is a plastic static model however the wind tunnel car seems like the one driven by Mr. Takei in the video. 

The drip rail also curves in the wind tunnel car!

4 Gill

 

3 Gill with curved drip rail, and very early spoiler design

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[240260280]

Looks like they made atleast a  few shark gill Z's that moved:

3  Gill no drip rail

 

4 Gill with curved drip rail AND ROLL Bar!  Chris you have helped connect some of the pieces!

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[Mike]

On 12/13/2019 at 12:20 PM, 240260280 said:

Here is one example of tail lights (and dual exhaust)  in Aug-Oct 1967 designing period.

Note the license light in the bumper and keyhole in the hatch lip. Shark gills are a bit obvious.

I wish they would have stuck with the dual exhaust.  It makes the back of the car look so much better IMHO.