Finally found a 69 240z, #51 Time to finish a 30 year multiple owner restoration.

[Namerow]

23 hours ago, dspillman said:

  It always makes me smile when taking off suspension peices that show  the yellow Q/C brush marks…..

I don't recognize these two parts.  What are they?

[dspillman]

1 hour ago, Namerow said:

I don't recognize these two parts.  What are they?

Reinforcements/washers for the front cross member attachment to frame rail

[dspillman]

Careful removal of undercoating and grease revealed a partial number on most mustache …. I’m thinking they were all the same with 240s… Too aggressive I was while “gently scrubbing”

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Edited May 11 by dspillman
Uphonics

[dspillman]

    I remember questioning a restoration expert a couple years ago about their sloppy application of the yellow paint around the suspension nuts/bolts that are underneath the 240z they had completed.   I can only imagine now that some cars were marked with a quite wide brush, as can be seen in pictures of the front diff crossmember of attached pictures interesting to me, will have to really “slap on the paint” if that detail is included later on for me.

[dspillman]

Baby steps…

[dspillman]

People that do this for a living are some tough dudes!!

[dspillman]

Removed quite a bit of undercoating on project 51.

     Looks pretty darn good body wise.  Floor  will need to be worked on, or replaced for certain.  Overall still happy with structure. 
    Front radiator cradle is the tough one. .I’m not sure I can “adjust,” all the dents and twists that have appeared.

      Upper cowl support looks like someone stood on the passenger side at one time.

  Spare tire well, although rusty inside, has no rust thru pinholes after blasting from both sides….

[grannyknot]

Stress cracks on both of the D/S front seat mounting holes and on the repair strap, I've never seen that before. Maybe the car did some track time or had a really heavy driver.

[Patcon]

I think the upper frame rail at the hood hinges is available as a repop. I don't think the front inner fender area at the radiator support is available but KF vintage might make it if asked

[dspillman]

8 hours ago, grannyknot said:

Stress cracks on both of the D/S front seat mounting holes and on the repair strap, I've never seen that before. Maybe the car did some track time or had a really heavy driver.

    I’ve had one other car that had seat mounting cracks similar to this. but yes I’d say a “big boy” must have driven this car in the 70s…

[bluez]

The wheel wells look pretty good, but that front drivers side took a beating. That’s going to take some major time and finesse.

[Gav240z]

On 5/3/2024 at 10:58 PM, kats said:

Anyway, PS30-00051 was not made in October like S30-00051 and HLS30-00051. I don’t know why, looks like Z432 was taking a rest for a while in October then re- engaged in the assembly line in November or even December.

Since we're talking about #51 chassis sequence on all the variants. It might be worth sharing the fact that PS30 00052 is out there still and apparently in North America.

https://jdmlegends.com/collections/vehicles/products/1970-fairlady-z-432

I've actually had the owner reach out to me in search of some parts.