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Looking for a 240z in mich with no rust & clean interior; as well as mechanically sound. I can be a little flexible on the latter two, you know, if the seats need to be redone, thats no big deal. Please email me if you have something. muththom@msu.edu

Thanks for the Advice. Unfortunately, the car is in Detroit (I'm in lansing, 1.5hrs away), so I can't get a picture of it. I arranged to have it taken to a Nissan service center to have them inspect it. The price was initially 12,500, but was reduced to 8900 recently, so I was suprised to find rust on it. There are some pic on classicautotrader.com. its the yellow '70 240z in Madison Hts, Mi- it doesn't have picts of area in qurstion though.

Hi, I'm about to buy my first 240z. Its a 1970. Everything looked great on it, then I noticed some rust at the passenger side door. The first bit I saw was on the metal cord that runs down the door jam. It was originally wrapped in vinyl or some sort of coating. The coatin has been seperated and there is some pretty serious flaking inside. I asked the owner about it and he pointed out that this wasn't part of the frame, and would be easy to fix. I then looked underneath that area and saw there was a little more rust. This wasn't nearly as bad as that mentioned before. I think tha it could probably be fixed without putting new metal in. Any thoughts on this? Do you think this is a serious enough problem to hold off buying the car? I'm somewhat of a neophyte when it comes to auto work, so at this point, any of this I would have to get done professionally. The car is 8900, and thats kind of my limit for the present time on how much I could put into it. Any help would be appreciated. thanks tom