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Like this...threaded hole on lower part of wheel well.

Hi everyone, just picked up a series 1 240Z; I am from Belton, Tx working on Ft. Cavazos. Looking forward to getting out and meeting everyone - a few issues with the car that will need to be addressed but very nice overall. Will be keeping her!

Today my daughter helped me in the shop. We made some good progress. I got the driveshaft in and mated up to the R200 with the Zcardepot flange Brake booster lines and check valve installed Water necks and thermostat housing installed Heater hoses hooked up I replaced the red plug wires with a set of factory wires. They are absolutely beautiful!! Also got Sean's exhaust hung under the car. It needs a few details to finish I assume this ground is supposed to attach to the frame rail here?? Not too far from being ready for some coolant, fuel and a start up

37 Zs! Now I can tell my wife I don't really have that many!! 🤣 I bought my first car, a black 240z in 1986 at 17 y.o. too!

My body and paint guy (Chuck’s Frame Shop) has been in the frame and paint biz for 50 years. He is a perfectionist with all of the right gadgets. I don’t know what that particular frame alignment device is, but he had a blueprint of the 240Z specs taped to the door when installing the new clip. He said the finished product was perfect to spec…..probably better than original.

Looks like I'll be changing the plate on my '73.

Curious as to what happened on the flatbed. Maybe a cautionary tale?

Welcome to the group, great looking car and you definitely got the color right! 😉 It certainly looks to have been well kept. Be sure to reach out to the Z Club of Texas if you are ever up in the DFW area. You can find us on Facebook and at our website. Tip: Update your forum signature with your VIN and build date for any questions going forward.

Last weekend I worked on the carb heater tubes. I have one with a decent bracket but it's got a hole in it. I have another that has a damaged bracket. So I worked on fixing the bracket. Made a template and then cut it out and dressed it. I'm going to try to plate them but I'm not sure I can get a good plate on them. It's a shame there are no reproduction sources available

Mine is a Jefferson county, Birmingham plate, and I'm in Etowah County. They do it by population for the 1st. 2nd 3rd or 4th counties are 1,2,3 and 4 then it goes to alphabetic. So mine is #1 Jefferson county but I live in #31 county. Our only requirement is an original tag made by a prisoner in between rapes.

Looks like the answer is yes. I found this online: Georgia Code Section 40-2-41.1(b): So requirements are: You register like normal. $20/year. You get the current Georgia license plate. You keep the current Georgia license plate in the vehicle but need not display it from the rear. The historical license plate must be within 4 years of the model year, so if it's a 1985, then you can run a plate from 1981-1989.

A peach! 😁 The tax for an old car like this one is $1 US dollar think. For the registration of the car on roads for a year, the amount is $20 US dollars. Thanks for the kind words about the restoration. I took it to a car event today, Caffeine and Octane, which is held at a large shopping mall parking lot on the first Sunday of every month. They claim to have 30,000+ attendees every month. Today, I was speaking with someone affiliated with the event, and he said they had over 60,000 people show up to one of these events a couple of years ago. The location is just a few miles away from my house, which is nice. I had some pleasant conversations with several people. Most who I talked with were a bit older than me, and they often mentioned having a 260Z or 240Z, or they had a friend that had one, while in college. Several used the phase "it brought back memories".

Car turned out beautiful, both inside and out!! Excellent restoration. FWIW, Georgia is the peach state, even though South Carolina produces way more peaches. 🙂 States vary on registration and auto property tax rates. Several states have no taxes on cars.

I’ve piddled around with SCCA in the ITS class since 2001… with a 240z Still competitive on most tight tracks. Converting to EP class as a 260. The other stuff is just a collection of this and that….had 37zs in my backyard at one time….. parsed down to a dozen or so now. A Z was my first car I purchased at 17 in 1982, Diseazd with them every since!!

That orange is a peach, it's a state symbol maybe even the state fruit although Governor Kemp is pretty fruity.