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Some of my panels (especially the one behind left rear strut tower) are cracked, which leaves me with two possibilities - 1) repair them, 2) throw them out and buy a nice black interior. I will change the exterior paint from original 113 green to racing green, which means that the correct interior will be black. Thanks for your suggestions, I'll write to ClassicDatsun.com to find out if they can ship a full interior package to Europe.

Hi guys, I've decided to change my Zed's interior, because the original plastics were showing signs of wear and were simply to tough to clean up - it seem that the previous owners left it as-is from the factory. I heard that there is someone who makes reproduction plastics, vinyl and those funny rivets, but I don't know if it's true or not. Maybe I should search for such kits on eBay? Any piece of advice would be great. Thanks in advance, Tony.

Oh man... Nismo N1 block, JUN crank, Crower Rods and Wiseco pistons - now THAT is a PROPER motor. Congrats!

Restore it! Too many Zeds have already become parts cars, PLEASE try to preserve at least some of them.

Can you possibly rip it to your computer and upload it somewhere? I don't have History Channel...

It's a shame that there are so few Z owners over here - I'd call a few people and arrange a group buy. I see so many parts cars out there on eBay, and I can't get any of them, just because they're so far. I've only seen one American 240Z at the German eBay, but the price was just too high for a car in such bad condition (it cost more than the 5 in the American auction). I'm just wondering, how many of the original 240Z's are still running? Looks like they're likely to become scarce soon...

I was planning to put these on my car. Did you have them made, or maybe you just bought them? They look great.

And btw: what kind of primer did you use?

Mull, I've been following your project for a year or so, and, to tell you the truth, every time I watch the videos I have to pick up my jaw from the floor... I just can't imagine myself doing all that, the body looked impossible to be repaired. I'm restoring my Z now, but rust in my car is NOTHING compared to your Z. It almost looked as if it was a machinegun target or something. I'm just glad that there are so many Z's in Sweden, here in Poland there are around 4 or 5 - and it has twice the population of Texas. I'm going to Sweden during the next year's vacations, can I drop by just to touch the car? Please!

Talk about parking problems... My car used to have the orignial steelies with a bit of metal welded to the outside (!) making them a lot wider. The tyres were Dunlops with so few tread that they looked like slicks, there was absolutely no pressure in front tyres, and their width was 225 front and 245 rear... On a stock car. Now THAT was tiring. 225's at the rear shouldn't be that bad, after all there are Supra guys who run 285's or 305's at the rear and don't complain about the ride quality.

I hope Jay won't mind if I ask another question in this topic - are there any companies that make vintage-like seats? I want to change the seats in my car, but I don't think that modern buckets would look good inside. I'm searching for something that looks as if it was designed for the Z.

Damn... Stupid things like that happen too often. Well, at least it was nothing serious, so nothing happened to you or your girl. BTW: How's the project going?

In my opinion even a nice car can be turned into a ricemobile, it just depends on the owner. Take the Zed for example - I've seen too many S30s with huge, unnecessary rear spoilers (bigger than in 911 Turbos), with stock brakes beneath huge rims and tires, awful-looking exhausts, horrible low-quality plastic bodykits (I'm not reffering to the ones that really help the aerodynamics), and - what's worst - a shedload of ducktape from WalMart. I understand that some people don't have money to build concours-winning Zeds, but at least they can try to preserve them instead of making them what the manufacturer didn't really intend it to be (ie: a shed on wheels). I don't know if it's about a lack of taste or something, but I just don't understand the people who put huge aluminium wings, lots of stickers, hundreds of cable ties and pop rivets just to keep it together, on cars that could be beaten at the lights by my mom's old Subaru with my grandma driving. I've even seen a C5 Vette with silver stickers everywhere, and a poor 993 Porsche at British Motor Show with so much plastic, filler and paint around it, that it was almost impossible to recognize what kind of car it was (fortunately there was a specification list). The worst thing about it is that after the ricer gets bored with the car, he buys another one (in my country typically an old BMW), and sells his old "ride" to another ricer, because nobody else would buy it. After several crashes and repairs, these cars usually go straight to the junkyard. Sad. I'd prefer these cars to be driven in peace, and then simply go to a junkyard, possibly providing parts for the ones that still do well.

And to think I was afraid that my car would sound plain with factory SU's... It's just plain awesome! I'll record it and set it to play whenever I start up Windows.

They look like ATS Classics... They're quite popular in Europe, but I've never seen them on an American car.