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If it's the kind of spoiler I'm thinking about then those "handles" are the pockets for the turn signals. Here is a picture of mine that will hopefully help. If it's not the same please post a picture. The pockets below the turn signals are designed to be used as cooling ducts for your brakes but people have used them to install fog/driving lights. Do not trim your spoiler in any way until you are sure that it is secured properly to the car.

LEB, Your posts on this thread caused me to furrow my brow and scratch my head. No disprespect intended, but are you just thinking out loud here or something? You seem to have been involved with automotive design, and with Nissan themselves, but seem to be out of touch with what is nowadays - pretty much - common knowledge amongst most serious S30-series Z history fans. I can tell you for SURE that the S30-series Z range was indeed designed and engineered in Japan. Most of the main figures involved in designing, engineering and producing the range are still alive and well, and have been telling their stories over the last few years. You seem to be well behind the game in this respect. You need to do a little catching up. You will soon find the answer as to why the people you met at the Design Centre in Atsugi "never wanted to admit that it wasn't done in Japan". It WAS a Japanese product. But in what way was the S30-series Z design a "breakthrough"? I can tell you that the Chief Designer considered it to be already somewhat out of date in styling terms by the time it hit the market, and mechanically it was not exactly earth shattering. The designer himself admits that its biggest selling point was that such a great package of style and substance could be had for such a low price in its largest export market, and that the penny pinching imposed on his team affected the design almost as much as any other single factor. Yotsumoto "changed the subject"? Is this some kind of allusion to a conspiracy theory or something? I think you need to look a little bit more deeply into the internal company politics of the period in question if you want to get a proper handle on all this. And did Yotsumoto tell you that he "did" the 510? Reading between the lines of the above quote, I get the feeling that you are classing the S30-series Z as some kind of 'cut above' Nissan's other products of the period in pure styling terms. It reminds me of the times one has in the past read comments implying that "the Japanese" could not possibly have designed the Z, as it was too classy / beautiful / sexy ( etc etc ) and must therefore have been from the pen of a non-Japanese stylist ( as though Japanese people were in some way inherently incapable of designing such a thing ). Such thinking is retarded at best, and might well be downright racist at worst. I certainly hope this is not your intention. Your theory seems to be about as accurate as your dating of the B210 design - which debuted in the Japanese market in May 1973. Maybe you meant the B110, which debuted in January 1970? In any case, the S30-series Z was not designed alongside the Sunny, Bluebird, Laurel, Skyline, Cedric or Gloria - it was the product of a different studio within the company. Next time you are in Japan, I suggest you pay a visit to the offices of Mr Yoshihiko Matsuo. Take a bottle of a good single malt Scotch whisky with you, and maybe he will tell you how over thirty six years ago he and his team designed, engineered and productionised a range of cars that some people today still want to try and attribute to somebody - seemingly anybody - else. Respectfully, Alan T.