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IMSA Sam Posey Datsun Sam Posey, David Hobbs during a press day event in April 1978 at the Hallett Motor Racing Circuit in Oklahoma. In the late 1970s, Paul Newman and Posey were teammates driving Bob Sharp Datsuns in IMSA GT races 1977 IMSA Races at Brainerd Int'l Raceway

Spray adhesive! Yes but were? I just removed the carpet in my 78 only 50,000 miles. the carpet is in great cond. my carpet was glued to the pad in the heel area of the floor pans. Use heavy glue in that area and the carpet wont move.

maybe new shop http://www.atlantaracing.net/services-atlanta-nissan-mechanic-datsun.html

I would go with the SUPER MUFF.

Is this the same Jim cook Joe Smith (right) and Team Mate Jim Cook Making Ready For The Finals At The NHRA Indy Nationals As Two Of Joe's Machines Earned Their Way To The NHRA Winners Circle. A First In The History Of NHRA Drag Racing. http://granddaddy-joe-smith-nostalgia.blogspot.com/ "Jim Cook's career ending crash Quote Originally Posted by indyguy2 Anybody have any info on this crackup? Looks pretty nasty! This was in the NASCAR Motor Trend 500 at Riverside International Raceway on January 18, 1970, the same race you have a photo of earlier in the thread. Pretty nasty, yes...Jim Cook, who was a long time West Coast stock car standout, suffered severe injuries - including multiple fractures to his arms, legs, face and chest, head injuries and internal injuries. After weeks of being in "extremely critical" to "critical" condition, he rallied - only to suffer an infection and wind up back on the critical list a month later. His injuries were life threatening for months. He was unconscious for a week, then semi-conscious - through May. I have no idea when he finally was released from the hospital. There were benefit races to help with his medical costs. I recall he was in a wheelchair from then on. I was at that race, seated in the main grandstand. Fortunately, I did not see the accident. The aftermath was bad enough. It actually looked like two cars from the stands, and then there was the realization that it was only one car - damaged horribly. Reportedly, Cook and another car brushed at the end of the backstraight. Cook's car crashed into the end of the turn 9 wall. Since Jim Cook was one of my favorite drivers to watch on Southern California short tracks, this was all pretty tough on a kid. Jim Cook was an extremely smooth driver, a short track ace with many Southern California wins, some wins in NASCAR's Western series (including a memorable one in an Oldsmobile) and one race win in NASCAR's top series. And while he primarily raced on the West Coast, he did race at Charlotte, Daytona and Richmond. " http://www.trackforum.com/forums/showthread.php?126855-Old-Racing-Scrapbooks

Date stamped on driver door jamb .

The medical emergency numbers in Austria are 122 for medical aid, 144 for firemen and emergency doctors, and 133 for police.

Bruce here is more on the car you noted in the other post. http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/hrdp_1107_1959_chrysler_imperial_speedster/viewall.html

So long ago here are some other stickers. xenons130.com http://www.zhome.com/History/10thAE/Form.doc

Want me to send him your #

Give Pete a call 972-420-1293

VLAD will come but you must supply barbiturates and beer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbazYHyS0qI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBGbEnKRGvs

Don't be ranting the judges must be blind because they are. This show is three miles down the road from me at end of 8 mile. At the FORD house. Here is a concours type event with z cars and other Japanese cars mingling with the aristocrats . EyesOn Design Auto Design Show http://www.eyeson.org/index.php/eyeson/auto-show 2006 2011 http://blog.caranddriver.com/eyeson-design-charity-car-show-for-the-visually-impaired-need-not-be-seen-to-be-appreciated/ Award winner Shiro Nakamura Winner 2010 Lifetime Design Achievement Award Honored Recipient: Shiro Nakamura, Vice President and Chief Creative Officer, Nissan Motor Co.

Are you sure it is a 85.

Glad i could help. But there is someone that also needs a hatch maybe someone could help Datsy280zx in London Ontario. He was wanting the hatch i had but didn't act fast enough. He said he had someone coming through Detroit and he might call. Just a few hours after the sale someone called on his behalf about the hatch. And i told them sorry it is sold. He didn't sound happy. If someone can help contact Datsy280zx Here http://www.zcar.com/70-83_tech_discussion_forum/need_hatch_903703.0.html BGM

We have been remolding Bill Brown Ford on and off for a while now. First in the back in the service area last year. If it is nice and i don't need my truck i will drive one of my cars. My 78 is apart for paint but i have two on the road my 83zx and 83 rx7. When working out back all the service guys and costumers would gonk all day. Now we are working up front i and pull inside to unload. The front garage is huge they prep cars for the showroom and prep cars for pickup after sales. Anyway i had my 83zx parked inside there for a few days. More then one salesmen started telling there Z story. The owner who is a hot 30 something chick really liked the z. Most people under 20 didn't know what it was. Anybody that walked by stopped and looked. Every body would ask whose car is this and why is it in this FORD DEALERSHIP. The only wear on this car is a suntan on the rear shock towers. BGM

John Dinkel finds all the original players and tells the take of how Datsun's Z car became a production racing legend. Z Beginning The sound was like that of a thousand bees, drunk with power and skid row pollen. As it grew louder I searched the late-summer sky of the Southern California high desert for the source of the noise, squinting to protect my eyes from the glaring cloudless sky, until I finally detected what I'd been hunting for. Coming in low over the Willow Springs racetrack was a small blue-and-yellow single-engine airplane. It circled once and then took off to the east. That was John Morton's Kachina, and his buzz of the track signalled the arrival of John and Pete Brock for a reunion with one of the original 1970 BRE-Datsun 240Z racers. As I jumped into my car to pick them up a few miles down the road at the Rosamond SkyPark, my mind wandered back to 1969. The Vietnam War; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young; Richard Nixon, gas-guzzling musclecars. A young Chrysler engineer (me) is motoring across the country behind the wheel of a 1966 Barracuda Formula S, new wife and Triumph Spitfire in tow. I'm headed for Newport Beach, California to assume the position of engineering editor at Car Life, the sister magazine of Road & Track. R&T's now-famous January 1970 cover "scoop" with a black and white photo of the 240Z had already hit the newsstands by the time I arrived in late-December '69, so I didn't get to ogle that first Z in the flesh-a tremendous disappointment. Little did I know that one short year later I'd be hanging out at Pete Brock's BRE race shop in El Segundo almost daily, following preparation of the 240Z for SCCA C-Production racing and watching Pete's crew develop the Datsun 510 sedan for the Under-2.5-liter class in the Trans-Am series. The late 1960s and early 1970s were the heyday of amateur production racing in America, but a scant few people knew it. Most of these series' battles were waged behind closed doors, the SCCA having deemed many of the races non-spectator events for insurance purposes. Yes, the epic, nationwide battles between factory-supported C-Production 914s, TR6s, and 240Zs became legendary, but only secondhand for most. Undoubtedly, the most dynamic outfits on this battlefield were the factory-backed teams of Pete Brock on the West Coast and Bob Sharp in the East. Their D-Production successes with the Datsun 2000 roadster made Nissan a force to be reckoned with in SCCA club racing during 1968 and 1969. And from the very first pictures they saw of the new Datsun coupe, Brock and Sharp could sense the upcoming Z-car's competition potential. A light, low unibody GT with independent rear suspension and a 2.4-liter, 6-cylinder version of the 2000's overhead-cam Four, the 240Z had champion written all over it. But until they had one in hand, neither could begin the steps necessary to convert the Z from what R&T called "the most exciting [and affordable ] Grand Touring car in a decade" into a winner on the racetrack. And there was nothing either Sharp or Brock could do to hurry the arrival of the first load of Z-cars headed for the states to get a jumpstart on the fast-arriving 1970 racing season. BRE's development didn't start until late January 1970 with the arrival of a pure production model straight from the first shipment of 20 cars to land in Los Angeles. But on the East Coast, Datsun's misfortune was Sharp's gain. The first Z car in the country had suffered body damage at an auto show. Bob was told to "come get the car before Datsun changes its mind." So Sharp's preparation of the Z for C-Production racing had started a few months earlier than BRE's. Let the record show that despite the late start, BRE's number one driver, John Morton, managed to garner enough C-Production points to qualify for the SCCA's annual ARRC national championships in Road Atlanta. Morton won the 1970 C- Production runoffs, initiating a string of 10 consecutive C-Production/GT-2 victories for the 240, 260, 280, and 280ZX versions of the Z. Following consecutive wins in 1970 and 1971, Morton and BRE switched their focus to the SCCA Trans-Am series. Picking up where BRE and Morton left off, Bob Sharp Racing took the championship in three of the next four years (Walt Maas winning in 1974) with Bob behind the wheel. Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Logan Blackburn and Frank Leary took the checkers in 1976, 1977 and 1978, respectively. In 1979 Bob Sharp Racing returned to the winner's circle, this time with actor/racer Paul Newman as driver, a final championship that concluded a decade of Datsun domination the likes of which we will probably never see again. Sharp turned his attention from driving to team management as Datsun (now Nissan) entered the eighties. Moving up from GT-2, Sharp Racing dominated the GT-1 category from 1984 through 1988 with their incredible 300ZX Turbos driven by Jim Fitzgerald, Paul Newman and Bob's son, Scott. Incidentally, Scott's first national championship had come in 1986 in GT-2 behind the wheel of the same Z car (updated to 280Z specs) Bob had raced from 1970-1975. Before Scott raced it, the car had been stored in Bob's basement for six years. In total, Datsun/Nissan Z cars have captured 29 SCCA national titles, numerous SSA and SSGT victories and 18 major professional championships including IMSA GTU, GTS, Firehawk Endurance titles and one SCCA Pro-Rally championship. An incredible record for one manufacturer and one car! More here http://www.theautochannel.com/publications/magazines/sci/aug-sept-97/datsun.frame

I told you so.

Have you been to the http://www.wheel-whores.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=32&sid=4ab4afd43438e33704e5761659537ade

1979 no wipe no rust good glass and trim.

That is how is is done plastic or paper. "You actually have to squish it to get it " http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?25228-How-do-you-remove-the-!!-Glove-Box

Fold or collapse it . Put it in from the front. Take off door.

This is what i would do. Buy another hatch with glass have the new one painted and installed without pulling the glass. Have your hatch painted also and store it until new rubber is available. I have a nice hatch no wiper with glass and trim i would sell for 100 bucks no rust. Come get it. BGM

Detroit CL auto trans 125.00 bucks http://detroit.craigslist.org/mcb/pts/2855882242.html