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They are not my original pictures. I found in internet. The silver Z432 is my car , featured on a magazine issued around 1975 . Kats

Some pictures Kats

Hi , two cars comparison. Both are 1972 model , and survivor, . They are not restored , but have had been well taken care of from original owners. As you guess and see both , the orange is nicer than the maroon . California climate? Maybe , but this maroon is keeping very good condition as spending its life in humid Japan .I realized we can keep our car like this if we take care of our car very well even in Asian countries. I think the difference came from “ history “ of each cars. The maroon had some scratches on the left hand front fender and door , and little bit under the left hand rear bumper , near the muffler. The orange did not have such injuries. This makes maroon looks inferior of its exterior condition to the orange, the repair job at that time ( 1973 and after ) was not good . But I like its history, then It makes me feel difficult to decide remain as it is , or paint it like new with whole new parts which I have stored. Also the orange still has complete carpet and jute set , even each one has a paper stamp of quality inspection. The maroon is missing two front jute set , all the others are remained with the car . Tools , wheels, hubcaps , and speakers , seats , these hard to keep things with cars are original. I can compare one by one , the one has spent its life in the US , and the other one has spent its life in Japan . Some parts are looked identical of its condition, but some parts are not the same , it is fun to guess what made these parts looked different. And both have a lot of receipts from the begging ! Kats

My Uncle Bob. He passed away last week at the age of 97. Marines, Benedictine celebrate Corps’ 240th By Patrick McArdle STAFF WRITER Nov 11, 2015 0 Facebook Twitter Email Facebook Twitter Email Print Save MANCHESTER — If anyone embodied the idea at the 240th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps’ founding on Tuesday that “Once a Marine, always a Marine,” it was Robert Kiernan. Enlisting in the U.S. Navy right after Pearl Harbor, Kiernan learned to fly and then got an invitation to join the Marines. Kiernan continued to serve, even after the war, but just around the time of the Korean War, he felt another calling. For almost 50 years, Kiernan, who is known as Brother Robert and who will be 94 next month, was one of the Benedictine monks living at the Weston priory. Since breaking his leg, Kiernan has lived at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, but on Tuesday he was at Garlic John’s restaurant for the yearly celebration of the formation of the U.S. Marine Corps. Organized every year by Donald Keelan of Arlington, the celebration brings Marines from all over Southern Vermont to the restaurant for a chance to reminisce and share the bond of shared experience. Participants range from those like Kiernan, who served during World War II, to active Marines such as Staff Sgt. Bill Wolff and Sgt. Ian Bushee, both of whom are currently serving as Marine recruiters in Manchester and Rutland respectively. Many at the event move a little more slowly than they did while in uniform but remember the details of their service clearly. Kiernan, who is originally from Maplewood, N.J., said he enlisted right away in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, but wasn’t called up until March. At the time, Kiernan was a student at Cornell University. “I was studying chemistry, and I wasn’t too keen on it so I wanted to do something else. I decided to learn to fly,” he said. Kiernan earned his wings at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn and in Jacksonville, Fla. He said the last piece of training was performing eight landings on an aircraft carrier. For about a year around 1943, Kiernan flew dive bombers as a member of Squadron 234. Kiernan remembers flying from the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, out of Guadalcanal, at an airfield started by the Japanese but completed by U.S. Marines. During that year, Kiernan flew about 60 missions. “We weren’t in combat all the time. We were usually in combat for six to eight weeks then we went back behind the lines and did other training,” he said. Kiernan’s service included coming back to the United States and serving as a Marine instructor in California for about a year. In 1945, Kiernan went overseas again. He was stationed at Ulithi, an atoll in the western Pacific Ocean, where he and his fellow Marines thought they were getting ready to bomb the Japanese mainland but after the atomic bomb was dropped, the war ended quickly. “I thought we were going to get into a war with Russia, so when it was time for a discharge, I signed up for the reserves, and I flew in the reserves for another five years,” During that time, Kiernan worked as a broker on Wall Street, but he felt the call to a vocation to a religious life. He visited the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky where Thomas Merton was living. Kiernan said he was impressed by Gethsemani and wanted to pursue the same life for himself. “I didn’t find I was doing anything meaningful. My life was interesting enough but I couldn’t find any direction for it. I wanted to do something that was really meaningful in my life and when I made the retreat to Gethsemani, that impressed me so much, I wanted to do that for the rest of my life,” he said. Kiernan was at Weston for 47 years until he broke his hip in July 2014. Since then, he has lived at the Vermont Veterans Home where, through therapy, he has been able to learn to walk with a cane. The veterans home will see a benefit from the Marine Corps birthday. Retired Cpl. Roger Preuss brought two vials of sand from Normandy that he had gotten last year which were sold at the lunch to benefit the home. The purchasers, both Marines, were prominent: David Meiselman, chairman of the board of trustees at Southwestern Vermont Health Care, and Jerry Carr, a retired Marine and astronaut who was the commander of the Skylab 4 flight in 1973. patrick.mcardle @rutlandherald.com

It will be a good day when all wars are just distant memories, faded pictures, and stories in history books. Dennis

I am rebuilding a Velo Rossa (240Z re-body). I have put new rims on it so these guys need a new home. The fronts are 16 x 8" with a 4" backspace and the tires are 225/50 - 16. The rears are 16 x 10" with a 3.5" backspace and the tires are 255/60 R16. All 4 center caps are included. The front tires have some life left on them but the rears are pretty much done. (they all hold air). Asking $500 obo for the set. They are in Nashua, NH. I can ship they UPS with no problem but it will be added to the price. We'll work it out. Thanks for looking.Call or text my cell if you'd like 603-4three8-0373Harvey R

@kats Here is a nice solution for keeping wheel-to-hub nice: Anti-seize The salt on the roads here can bond the wheel to the hub (especially if hub-centric). For a classic liek yours, brushing a light coat of anti-seize on the hub surface reduces/hides rust. I always put on the studs too but others do not. Below is an example of a Miata hub from the net.

Got the Steering Rack cleaned up, painted and lubed. Attached it to the front support with the new Energy bushings.

It was mom's Kirby vacuum cleaner for me. But she was smart enough to to challenge me. Lady never had tangled up necklaces.

It'd be fun to renew one that old. My mom never did understand why I HAD TO disassemble and reassemble my new bike and anything else I could get my hands on. The urge lives on.

Whoa whoa... you guys are messing with my job security! I’m okay with that...

Not a Z, but maybe one of the boats they came over on. First one is the MS Bluebird and second one is the MS Asahigawa Maru. Photographs by Walter E. Frost, These are in the Port of Vancouver May of 1969

I'm trying to come up with a plan to scrape together $4,500 to grab this cute little guy, a gem. It's only an hour north of me. https://www.kijiji.ca/v-auto-body-parts/barrie/1965-datsun-quarter-ton-truck-super-rare/1397489416?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

LOL, I read too quickly and thought you wrote that I'll get a bum's rash on your door step. I guess with all the poop it is possible.

Sent from my iPhone using Classic Zcar Club mobile @siteunseen here’s the float levels.

For what it is worth, I used to run a small shop in Virginia call Z-Car restorations, but got out of it in the 90's for various reasons. I have installed many of these on customers cars, and they work well as some others have stated. I had about 17 sets at one time, but went through all of them but one set. Mine were originally distributed / sold by Keystone, and it was my belief (at the time) that they were Tabco parts. As soon as I can dig out my old set I will see if I can still read the labels and report back if I can find any useful info.

Oh I probably wouldn't drive it much, I just want to take it apart and put it back together, yes I was one of those kids, my Mom would never leave me alone with a multi driver.

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come." Carl Sandberg.

Considering a 280z has a German EFI and Japanese everything else, just 30 years after the war, brings it all into perspective.... money wins, young men and civilians lose.

I never understood why a person would go through the trouble of painting a car but they wouldn't bother removing the nuts from the front strut towers. instead they paint over them.

There was nothing over 3/8 thick, most was 1/8 or so. The usual buildup in certain spots. It was applied properly with great prep apparently. It was hiding absolutely NO rust and was stuck on like you always wish it should be. Nothing just fell off, it all warm and scrape, repeat. It's a beautiful fall day here today, highs of 14C, so I'll have the big door open to get the draft going so I don't gas myself or go boom when I do the massive laquer thinner wash that comes next to get it down to pure virgin stock paint. Yes Dad, I'll wear organic vapor breathing protection....

Undercoating. Love it.... Love it even more when you remove it, and find...... NOTHING!

Good to hear patcon and everyone. I think im gunna polish off the metal work on the passenger side, etch it and the roof then epoxy er up! I'll spin the car around and focus on the driver side for a few months after that. Last night I couldn't wait so I started in on drilling out the Weldon the peices I got. Today I'll line things up and start fitting them. Paying close attention to forward back so the hood isn't wonky! Sent from my SM-N950W using Tapatalk

Thanks for the thoughts Site, we appreciate it. I also like to pass my thanks to the spouses of serving members. They put up with a lot from us and often suffer more from lack of information while we are deployed than anyone knows. They know we are in danger, yet don’t hear from us for weeks at a time or more. Here’s to them too!

Married for 70 years to the same woman!!!

My next door neighbors would like your contact info.

It's a 432, not a 432-R. The tests for the article were carried out at Murayama on 12th and 13th November 1969. The photos are in the original magazine article.

Lumens... If you happen to have a '74 260Z manual you would like to pay forward, please contact me. There are a few sections of the on-line one that are too fuzzy to read. That or my eyesight is worse than I thought. (My mom told me to stop but I wouldn't listen.)