7 minutes ago, EuroDat said:

Wow, I didn't know the handbrake lever could get it to the vertical position. Hope thats not an indication of the degree of maintenance 

The car has been dormant for many years according to the description, so not surprising really.

Looks like a car with great potential. Hope it finds a worthy new owner.

You're right EuroDat. It almost always does.

The guy who sold the 355-Mile 1976 Datsun 280Z has just listed this:

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1983-datsun-280zx-31/

 

 

That guy has turned in to some kind of diamond finder.  He has a whole list of nice cars sold on BAT.

https://bringatrailer.com/member/adamike/

He's got a Z divining rod.

I used to have one too, in my pants. Too much trouble now...

 

Edited April 22, 20222 yr by siteunseen

Another comment on a BaT auction which attempts to re-write history. Why do this?

First of all, what is the point in decanting out the '240Z' variants from a timeline which includes the other S30-series Z/'270 Keisha' variants? Is this not - once again - an attempt to make the '240Z' (whatever that is...) some kind of KING?

"Regular production chassis serial numbers"?  The cars in question were 'Kojo Shisaku' and 'Seisan Shisaku' examples (by definition Prototypes rather than regular production cars), and we have discussed them at length on this forum in the past after Kats showed us the confidential factory documents which listed them.

Out of those first fourteen 'Kojo Shisaku'(factory prototype) and 'Seisan Shisaku' (production prototype) cars - the first fourteen cars to be given a unique chassis prefix and body serial number combination - just three of them were 'HL270U' HLS30-prefixed cars. One was an 'H270U' HS30-prefixed car, Four were 'P270' PS30-prefixed and six were '270' S30-prefixed.

So what is all this "#1, #2 and #3" stuff? It is nonsense, isn't it?

Why is the history of these cars so consistently misreported and misrepresented by people who should (and do) know better?          

No, it's the level of naivete, and high level of "I could care less".  Nonsense yes, but that guy is there to sell his car.  That's all.  BaT banter is just that, banter.

If I were selling a car I do t think I’d use BaT. While there are some great comments helping potential buyers there are just as many trolls on there. There are people that make comments that are just not true (sign of the times) damaging the potential sale. This site suffers the pitfalls of many social media sites. What’s true and what’s false?

36 minutes ago, 26th-Z said:

BaT banter is just that, banter.

Banter is one thing, but the data I'm talking about is being presented as historical fact by somebody who clearly understands that it is nothing of the sort.

 

Sooooo many "experts"

The worst it the medical experts that read a couple articles on WebMD of Fakebook and all a sudden they act like a board certified physician.

Someone is parting out what are claimed to be a couple of basket case 240's. 

https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/d/seattle-parting-out-240z/7480076987.html