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They look remarkedly similar to the ones I bought at Kmart in the early 80s when I lived in rural Texas. They might still be stowed away somewhere in my shop.

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

They are in Canton. I used them a year or so ago. They rebuild your unit. I think it took a week or so.

Attended my first local cars and coffee since moving to the North Georgia mountains. As expected, mostly US cars, with only 4 Japanese and a few BMWs.

When I bought my 73 in 1979 the dealer mods to correct vapor lock had already been installed, including the "competition hood". I did not know anything about this until the internet came along. The car ran well and kept its tune. It wasn't until it was about 35 years old before it started with the vapor lock problem. Years later I swapped to rebuilt round tops. I think the flat tops were just worn out, no different at that age than round tops.

To install the new shocks I bought 3 years ago.

Adding 2x4's between the joists won't be necessary as long as whatever decking he installs is adequately nailed to the joists.

My '73 has the dealer added electric fuel pump that has an internal filter. This is the only photo in my archives I could find. It shows the pump but not the bracket.

Installed the rebuilt brake booster and new master cylinder today. Booster was rebuilt by Harmon Classic Brakes. They sent back the parts they replaced, and surprisingly they look pretty good for 51 years old. It was time for a rebuild, as brakes needed too much effort and stepping on the brake peddle at a stop light caused the engine RPMs to increase. Also flushed out the old brake fluid.

Massive hood scoop in all its glory.

Note that the sidemarker kit does not work if you have LED bulbs in your turn signals and/or side lights. Says so in the instructions that come with the kit, and I confirmed it.

My original 73 manifold was sitting on a shelf. It is an N33.

Four members of the Georgia Z Club participated in my city's Christmas Parade. We would have liked a better turnout, but had some competition from some football game. A good time was had and we enjoyed barbecue afterwards.

Top one looks like the one from my 10/72 240Z

Check that the hood release handle is returning all the way. Mine no longer does and I have to remember to push it in or the hood pops open at random times during a drive.

I get the same results as Racer X, in both Chrome and Edge on Windows 10 Pro, Version 2004.

When I moved from New Jersey to Texas in 1977 my brother gave me his CB for the drive down. When I bought my Z 2 years later I installed it behind the passenger seat. The P.O. must have had one, because there was an antenna mount on the rear bumper. I was more into listening to the truckers than talking. I removed it many years ago and replaced it with a CD Changer (another obsolete item). I still have the CB in the basement somewhere. Might be useful after civilization collapses.

Interesting. My 10/72 Z has the V3 modifications, but no fin or hood seal. It does have the "competition" hood scoop, that may have made the fin and seal unnecessary.

Just saw the ZCON 2018 video. Here's a link: https://youtu.be/Sw7ZjJAwYkg

I converted from flat tops to round tops and used the same wing nut bolts.

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

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Steve, On behalf of Patty and myself, thanks for all the hard work you put in over the last 18 months. Great job on putting together the closing show slide presentation. The Georgia Z Club and Fairlady Alliance team did a great job. I was pleased to help out where needed. It was a great pleasure to meet some of you guys - Bruce and Gary from Philadelphia, the Jims from Arkansas, Patcon and Cody, etc. Sorry about getting some of you lost temporarily in the north Georgia mountains. ? Congrats to Zup on his multiple wins! I'll post some photos later.

Matsuo San was in the registration room graciously signing memorabilia this evening. After he finished signing he hung around and the 5 or 6 people left in the room were thanking him for coming and started asking him questions about the design process. He spent about 15 minutes drawing diagrams and explaining his process. Some of the same things he talked about in the Tech Talk, but others as well. We were just mesmerized. The session was recorded, so hopefully it will be shared. It was one of my highlights of the convention. Altogether an awesome day. Congratulations to the aerial photo crew for putting that together. I am looking forward to seeing the photo.