New Member,New to Z's

[SJZ]

Hey everybody. My wife just inherited her dad's one owner 72 240Z. Hasn't been started or driven since about 2005. Car was sold new at the same dealership in Marion,Indiana that the $300k green 240 BAT car came from. I'm a lifelong gear head (muscle era mopars) and have completed a rotisserie restoration on my 69 1/2 six pack Super Bee. That being said I know nothing about these Z cars so I decided to join for info and advice when I start getting the 240 roadworthy this fall. Looking forward to working on this neat little car. 

Edited September 3, 2021 by SJZ
Added pics

[Mark Maras]

 Welcome. We'd love to see some pics.

[SJZ]

Working on it, having trouble uploading. 

[siteunseen]

Nice dowry.

Welcome and thanks for bringing a nice original car for us to see.

Whoa! Black engine bay. Look for the color code sticker on the passenger's side of the top radiator support. It may have had a color change.

Still looks really good.

http://www.zhome.com/History/ZColorGallary/index.html

Edited September 3, 2021 by siteunseen

[heyitsrama]

Wow that paint looks very nice! Welcome to the club 🙂

Edited September 3, 2021 by heyitsrama

[grannyknot]

Welcome aboard, yes more pics please, underneath if you can.  Well if you're coming from mopar to a 240z you are in for a treat, these cars handle in a very different way to the muscle cars of the same era.

So who's car is it? Yours or your wife's?

[SJZ]

The black in the engine bay is like an undercoating type paint. A lot of the same type of paint is underneath too. The paint code tag is 110 persimmon red which oddly enough looks a lot like the R4 red on my Super Bee. My wife and I were married in 1995 and the first time I saw the car it looked like it does now. I assume it was painted sometime in the late 80’s. It is definitely my wife’s car but I’m crew chief lol. Father in law passed in 2009 so the car has been collecting dust in my mother in law’s garage. She’s getting up there in age and wanted to start making sure assets go where they should.

Here are pics of a decal I found in the owners manual and a pic of the dealer installed 8 track player. It has matching Beltek speakers in the tail panel trim.

[siteunseen]

Here's a #110 '72 I had a few years ago. Sometimes it looked red then other times more orangish. I called it "tomatoe red". 

This is original paint so it's faded somewhat...

[SJZ]

My Bee is the same way. In some light it looks orange and other light it looks red. Is the stripe in your pic a factory stripe or just a common add on? I see a lot of cars with that stripe but didn’t know if it was factory.

[S30Driver]

Very nice car and welcome!   If your picture is fairly accurate, it looks it has had a respray at some time with a color change to red.  Cliff's picture is close, hard to take a good pic in direct sun, best to do a dusk with the softer light.

Take a look under the carpet in the hatch area and see if you can see the persimmon color...

[Racer X]

15 hours ago, SJZ said:

 

 

 

 

That Z is a keeper, and great color.

Nice Super Bee.

A long time friend is a Mopar guy. 1972 Tradesman van, he dropped a 340 in it years ago. Suprises all the guys at the Mopar meets at dragstrips. He had a 67 Dart GTS 383 in high school, totalled it. He found a shell about 15 years ago that had been used as a gasser, fenderwells cut open for headers, and nothing but a rear axle. Moved it around his shop like a wheelbarrow. Took about 7 years and he gathered up everything.

He is prett proud of it.

 

A 68 Coronet 500.

 

A 69 383 Road Runner. It runs and drives, but is scheduled for the same treatment as the Dart GTS.

 

A 72 383 Barracuda, hasn't been driven in 25 or 30 years, awaiting a full restoration.

 

A 67 Dart GT convertible. A friend was fixing it up for his wife, he got cancer and died, and his wife gave it to my buddy. He spent about 5 years finishing it.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 4, 2021 by Racer X

[siteunseen]

10 hours ago, SJZ said:

My Bee is the same way. In some light it looks orange and other light it looks red. Is the stripe in your pic a factory stripe or just a common add on? I see a lot of cars with that stripe but didn’t know if it was factory.

Those are dealer add ons from all I've read. It has white interior so the white stripe. I didn't really like it so I sold it and kept the #918 with black interior and rocker stripes. The window sticker from that one calls it "sports package". 

They're available if your interested.

https://stripegarage.com/collections/datsun-240z-260z-280z/products/datsun-240-z-triple-stripe-vinyl-decal?variant=14729170374