You take it with a smile but this car needs a lot.. all depends on what's under the fenders.. 

Could be a little and could be gone completly bad..

On the pic of the front of the rear wheels i see some glassfibre repair... A BIG ALARM just went off!!

I know what you are going thrue..

In 1991 i bought a 240z ... original Dutch (Read: complete pile of rust!!) ...  After i removed the flooring i took all the good parts off of the car and called the local wrecker to pic up the car... it went with a good roof.. damn... the rest was junk..

Today i still drive a 240z with euro (Dutch) drivetrain! 😉 

I'm curious what's under the fenders please remove them and make some pics and place them here!

 

 

Edited February 27, 20223 yr by dutchzcarguy

On the right of the hole i see rust...steel.. on the left there is no rust and glass fibres in the edge of the fender... so.. this was a local repair with glassfibres.. that's a bad omen!! 

Pulled the fenders to take a look and dug at the corner of the foot wells yesterday evening. Moisture is from spraying down with penetrant.

Behind that right fender



Then the footwell under



Drivers side




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Not great, but I've seen worse get fixed

Yeah.. seems to be repairable!!  I've seen cars that had fiberglass repairs and came out to be unrepairable..

Think you can restore the damage because its not to much!  👍

I'm curious how the corner just in front of the left rear wheel comes out when you take the glassfiber out there..

I don't know if there is someone that made these beam's ( see pic.) can you make them yourself by hand?  Still a lot of work.. i would look for a better chassis.  

Also.. take a look at the inner side of the corners of the chassis where you normally lift the car.. there should be a inner steel plate between the inside and outside part. Lots of 280zx's have bad corners and can't be lifted there (lifting points.)  

Edited March 2, 20223 yr by dutchzcarguy

Yes, one of the few pieces you can get for the ZX is frame rails and floor pans but I will most likely recreate them.

Will have to dig in to the area under the doglegs. The floor there is in post #45, third and fourth pics


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Same old, just cleaning things up and getting ready.

Here’s some loveliness for you Dutch.





Gruesome, mess with me and I’ll cut ya





Cleaning up the flip side










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Worked some of the dents out of the floor pans.





Drivers side had been pushed up a bit









Getting there

Passenger side




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That wiring seems to be in pretty good shape. My PO put Dynamat over every bit of wiring on the rear deck, including the harness and cover access for the fuel pump.  When removing the Dynamat to repair rust, I had to tear up all that wiring and re wire it.  I wish I could meet that guy.  I bought the car from his ex wife. 

WOW !!!!!!   That rail looks terrible/horrible !!   I literally screamed when i saw that!!  How can this come that bad without the floor getting bend? wow!  Btw, you did a nice job on getting those dents out of the floor! Can't wait for the pics of you putting in a new set of rails!

Dutch, do you happen to have any good pics of the underside of your car while it was being redone?

I saw a few in your thread, but wasn’t sure if you had others that you didn’t post.

I know the 2+2 will be slightly different but I know your car was in good shape. I did grab a lot of pics from BAT and other sites but nice primered parts show good contrast. Most posted online don’t have pics of the underside, they are covered in undercoating, or are beat up too.


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