Here's the bidding on the car above.  Makes no sense.  Makes you wonder...

I'd rather have the '73 vs the low mile '77 for the same money. His prancing pony friends might have something to do with the odd prices?

I got a BaT notice the other day. 14k mile 73 didn't meet reserve at $135k!?

4 hours ago, Zed Head said:

Prancing to the bank...

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1973-datsun-240z-222/

The green 73 he was selling didn't sell at 145k.

In what world does this not make reserve? 

Edited December 9, 20222 yr by DC871F

My conspiracy theorist side says that the market is being artificially inflated.  Some of the bids are antithetical to the whole point of an auction.  The same guy that got the last 73 by bumping the bid by $27,000 bumped the bid on the 145 car by $15,000.  Just not normal.  If this was the stock market the FTC would be investigating unusual activity.

Most of these cars will be ending up just sitting collecting dust sadly

Sorry to say, I agree with you. Bragging rights and nothing more. I enjoy touring with my old cars when the weather cooperates.

I was going through my stash of factory service literature and refound this. It's a training aid for parts personnel that taught them how to identify Datsuns from day 1 in the US through about 1975.

If you see one for sale don't hesitate. It's really cool and very informative as well as a reliable source of correct model info.

Did someone mention V-3 kit? 

The following is an edited version of an article I wrote for the Z Car Club of Northern Virginia many moons ago when we still had a monthly newsletter.

1972/73 found me working as a mechanic at a Datsun dealer in Bethesda, MD. We sold our first 73 240 to a member of the Redskins football team as a promotion.  Only problem was it got towed back to the dealership for the next 3 consecutive evenings - so much for the promotion.  This was in the early fall when the weather was still pretty warm and the car was exhibiting very rich symptoms. The owner of the dealership was pretty pissed as his name was starting to turn to mud with the guy who had bought the car with a lot of hype. Long story short, about a week later we were visited by 2 engineers from Nissan Japan. 

We were the only dealer within bunch of miles of the Eastern headquarters in NJ that had a modern chassis dynamometer. For the next week or so these engineers and one of our mechanics spent most of their time with the Z in question on the dyno and on the roads surrounding greater Bethesda. 

The result of their work was the V-3 kit. The kit included an electric fuel pump, fuel pump relay, asbestos like/aluminized engine compartment fuel line wrapping, carb floats and needles and a handful of other parts that,  when the weather was warm, did little to address the problem(s).

Until Datsun/Nissan could start fitting the kits at the factory it was up to dealer mechanics to install the V-3s to those cars already in distributor/dealer hands. A real rush was put on the program and we started getting kits about a week or so later. 

What was the problem? Adding an EGR system to the induction system raised under hood temps a great deal and moving the float bowls from the side of the carb to the bottom of the carb often resulted in fuel percolation as there was almost no movement of air in the very confined space between the float bowls and the exhaust manifold. .

The 1969-1972 240s vented the carb float bowls into the atmosphere through the air filter housing. The 73s and 74s couldn't do that anymore because of tightened emissions regulations. Those years vented the float bowl, now mounted in a confined and hot space,  directly into the venturi. Now you had hot fuel vapors, unmetered, entering the venturi resulting in a very rich condition and LOUSY performance. 

More later.

 

1970 Datsun 240Z | eBay

 

Where to not lift a z 😑

1972 Datsun Z-Series 240Z | eBay

Wow what happend here ? 🙄

 

 

30 minutes ago, bartsscooterservice said:

1972 Datsun Z-Series 240Z | eBay

Wow what happend here ? 🙄

 

 

Yes! Something is amiss here.