Philliousfog

I'll correct that, the spring mounts were 3/4" ish lower making it 2.25" lower on the front and 1.75" rear.

Hi, I have successfully sectioned some series one struts using a $20 pipe cutter between the spring mount and the brake hose bracket, I removed 1.5" from the fronts and 1.75" from the rears, the earlier front struts had lower spring mounts by 1" compared to my series two car so I ended up with a 2.5" drop on the front and 1.75" rear with standard springs.

That car looks good, thanks for your help, I'm torn between that and white, there doesn't seem to be many colour options for a series one, they can look so good in any colour, I saw this one advertised recently, worst way I'll have to buy another car and have one of each!

Thats more like it! I have seen some orange Z's but it's hard to know if they have been repainted the right colour, I thought my car was 502 Ivory which I also like but Arne sent me a link showing the colours a series one could have been and it showed it could only have been 904 white which comes across whiter than I thought, certainly on the pictures I've seen, I think I can get PPG colours made up so I will buy the orange and the white and spray each side of my spare car first! Great pics and information though Guys, much appreciated!

Hi I am considering painting my car among other colours 918 Orange, I can't see a car in the UK to have a look at the finished colour, does anyone have any pics they could show me of one here? I have seen some but the wonderfull Californian sun on the car makes it hard to see the real shade, Thanks, Phil.

Thanks Arne, I've got that on my colour chart, like the name too! you don't know of a car I could see a picture of in that colour do you? Unfortunatly there was nothing much left of the blue interior and I have black one like new, I will get some 904 mixed up and try it. Thanks for the link! I like that 112!

Hi, I'm Phil I'm in the UK, I've visited the US a couple of times and I wanted to build a series one 240z so I bought HLS30-18912 Build Date 01/71 which came from a Scrap yard (junk yard) in Arizona and I will rebuild it whatever it takes! The engine and gearbox/transmition was missing as were the doors, the wings/fenders were knackerd as was everything else! The shell however was very good with perfect inner wings which is impossible to get in the UK, I have nearly completed all of the work on the shell and have bought nice rust free Californian doors and panels so it will be ready for paint this summer. The car although prepainted white was originally 502 Ivory with blue interior, I have Black interior for the car already but can't decide weather to paint it the original colour or change it, I also like orange but when I ordered 918 orange it looks alot browner than I thought could anyone show me a picture of a 502 Ivory car and a 918 orange or even suggest something else? I feel obliged to use period datsun colours and I have spent £5000/$8000 on the shell alone so I want to make sure I get it right!!! Also I have other uk 240z's for donor parts so I will fit a 5 speed transmition but I wanted the original 4 speed wooden shift knob, what should it look like? I've seen different ones.