HS30-H
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Works CALSONIC sponsored R32 GT-R Group A race car on display at Nissan's Ginza, Tokyo HQ. -
Works KPGC110 Skyline GT-R race car on display at Nissan's Ginza, Tokyo HQ. This car never raced, due to the "Oil Shock" crisis......... -
R34 GT-R race car at Nissan's Ginza, Tokyo HQ. -
Nissan R383 on show at Nissan's Ginza, Tokyo HQ. -
Club S30 Japan, May 2003 meet at Nissan's Zama plant. -
Club S30 Japan, May 2003 meet at Nissan's Zama plant. -
Club S30 Japan, May 2003 meet at Nissan's Zama plant. -
Club S30 Japan, May 2003 meet at Nissan's Zama plant. -
Club S30 Japan, May 2003 meet at Nissan's Zama plant. -
Club S30 Japan, May 2003 meet at Nissan's Zama plant. -
Yes Gav, this is the car. However, Mr Watanabe is a fellow member of Club S30 and is not the same Mr Watanabe as the original owner of R.S. Watanabe. Mr Watanabe DOES have R.S. Watanabe wheels on his ZG - so I guess Mr Watanabe does have Mr Watanabe's wheels on his car..... ( OK - I give up. Lets keep it simple for me - they are not the same guy! )....... -
Close up of the first type of Factory G-nose with no baffles. -
Close-up shot of the air-con baffles as fitted to the second type of Factory G-nose. -
Members of Club S30 at Nissan's Zama plant. -
Members of Club S30 at Nissan's Zama plant in May 2003. -
Close-up of the air-con baffling on the later version of the Factory G-nose. -
Parked in a downtown Tokyo sidestreet - Mr H. Watanabe's Fairlady 240ZG. -
Parked on a downtown Tokyo sidestreet - Mr Hideki Watanabe's Fairlady 240ZG. -
Parked on a downtown Tokyo sidestreet - Mr H. Watanabe's Fairlady 240ZG. -
Parked in a downtown Tokyo street - Mr H. Watanabe's Fairlady 240ZG. -
This is the engine bay of the Rauno Aaltonen / Jean Todt crewed Works 240Z that finished 5th overall in the 1971 Monte Carlo Rally. This engine is not the original engine that was in the car when it finished the rally - but most of the ancillaries are correct. -
Actually, this is the car driven to 5th place on the 1971 Monte Carlo Rally by Rauno Aaltonen. The 1971 Safari Rally winner is in the background. -
That looks much too dark to me. You need to be aiming for a mid to dark gunmetal grey metallic. I don't know what cars you would have locally that I could point the colour out from ( I live in London, England ), so its a bit difficult! Its definitely better to err on the grey side rather than have it too dark, in my opinion. However, some Japanese replica ZG's can be seen with darker shades of metallic grey. I notice that the owners of white ZG replicas in particular sometimes seem to go for either a darker or lighter shade than the original Factory colour. Have a look at the pictures of my Factory ZG in my Gallery. I think there are some pics in there that will give you a good clue to the correct shade if you blow them up a bit. Good luck, Alan T.
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I don't understand shatchmo's two-star rating. This is a five in anyone's currency............. -
The original Factory colour was a metallic Gunmetal Grey. BMW used to have a stock colour called 'Anthracite' which is just about perfect. I got a small bottle of touch-up paint from a fellow ZG owner in Japan, and he had it mixed to match his Factory paint on the lower panel. Its an almost perfect match to the BMW Anthracite. Almost any dark metallic grey colour is going to look OK. They were never black from the Factory. Alan T.