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Hi v12horse, Thank you and I made a mistake,this fairlady-ZL cap was used until some around 1975 or 76 in japan.Same as rest of the world in late 1971 a new style cap"5 scalops"was released.But in japan it was for 2.4 litter S30(Fairlady240Z and Fairlady240ZG) This photo shows my hub caps "D" type from an another thread. kats http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=55691

Hi TomoHawk, Yeah,I am crqazy but thank you for watching and putting a comment.If no one makes reply,I am a bit sad.. kats

later style tabs. kats

Hi, I post my hubcaps which are for fairlady-ZL.This design was used from the 1969 through 1978 in japan. But you can see these caps have tabs which I call later style. So these are not for the earliest one,mabe mid '70s. kats

close-up view kats

I forgot to show screws I made fitted to the fuel reservoir tank. kats

This is a true bonnet emblem.Very similar. mdbrandy,the hubcaps under the table are not "D"mark version. They are for japanese S30.Instead of a "D" there is a hexagonal silver mark on the center.These I do not need anymore,I bought these for my Z before I got correct "D" caps. If I list them on ebay,how much people will be looking at? I listed once on japanese yahoo auction,no one made a bid. I was sad.. kats

Mr Camouflage, I agree what you thought.fairlady's quater emblem is very similar to its bonnet emblem.But I show this time,your saying becomes ture. This Z is from a brief catalog issued 1969 Tokyo motor show for its debut.I found this Z has got a quater emblem on its bonnet!!This is a completely mistake.I asked this to Mr.MATSUO and he said emblems had not made until just a few days before the photo mission.Mr.KATAYAMA felt so much difficulty for naming about export model this is one of the reason,and also design staff was so busy this is another reason,Mr.MATSUO said. The younger staff ran to the studio like a pizza deliverly staff with emblems in his hands.So this mistake happend. P.S. My son got a 240Z emblem and dash side ventirator from my parts box.When I found it,it was too late.They are now his toys!! kats

close-up view of same car from same book kats

240ZX, I was excited but thank you for letting us know the truth.Do not worry I enjoyed a dream about my installing chrome Z. But I do not give it up,some one up to HLS30-02500 may has chrome "Z".I would like to hear about it. Alan,thank you for your great search for the part number. I have to know yes,the car like showing the press photo is a very rare and may have a lot of unsusal parts. For example,hood bumper stay #63840-E4100 which is located at both sides of inspection lid is a very different shape in the 1969 240Z.Even more some cars on the press photo do not have ones.Nothing there!! And parts change is notified a few months later is a common I found.For example,quater emblems#76807(8)-E4600 was listed on the first issued catalog(Nov1969) and continued on the first revision(Mar1970).On the second revision(Jun1970)the part number was surperseded but it says it was made Feb1970. So in the factory,they changed parts first,parts catalog followed their change. Mr.NISHI(proffetional restorer in japan)said japanese S30's first parts catalog was not issued until early 1970. I guess the reason of quater emblems (before the quater vented)for failady-Z has only one part-number is the parts catalog was issued after the emblems had changed.The rare "press photo emblem"was already disapered when the parts catalog was issued.However nissan may change parts itself without change its parts number. civ104 and 26th-Z, The lock lid is a standerd in japanese S30.And you can open it with same key for door key.When Z started to use all-in-one key,you can open it with the key also for ignition,door,etc. But I am not for sure in the U.S.,if you install a lock for a lid at dealer,you may have a extra key for the lid? 240znz and dazza, Thank you for your inputs.I want to see chrome "z" from your country and U.K. also.If it becomes true,it will be another new findings. Photo from press day 25th Nov 1969.This Z has colored interior.If body is Blue,interior is blue.If green,interior is tan. Can you see 240Z emblem got"chrome Z" kats

Hi mdbrandy, Not a big deal, you bingo!!they are #90829-E4100 And U.S. catalog,key#64--- #08530-41620 "screw tapping M4"is funny.We do not use screws for vent grille much less from the top!!I guess this picture made a mistake,misunderstood from datsun 510 or something.I saw the went grille which is very similer to the S30's one.It is retained with screws from the top. kats

I thoght I have to buy tube#90828-E4101 separately,but I did not need because duct box#90820-E4100 includes tube and sponge packing. kats

This is a shot of a new duct box.Note the tube is original rubber made. I wanted to disassemble all of them and show you,but I remembered all of you said it is easy to break.So I did not. kats

I reglet I have installed new duct boxes already.I should take photos of them before installing. This bag shows part number and these two tubes came from with duct boxes but were not applied.Why?Because these new tubes are made of plastic(but flexiable)I love original rubber tubes and mine are still soft and nice.So I remained original tubes. kats

Hi, I have got new rear hatch vent system parts from local nissan about two years ago,they were able to sell all of them. My Z remained original old plastic vent parts when the restoration was completed.I became to think I wanted to have new parts once I realised new parts were still available. First I checked my U.S. catalog,then went to the local nissan. They showed me a japanese S30's catalog and I was surprised there were some un-identified parts related vent and duct. I think Alan can help this.My opinion,description and irrustration of parts about them in japanese S30's catalog is very well to understand. This photo shows sponge sealings that sticks itself on to the plastic box.I think this is a great to know this sponge sealing is available separately. kats

This photo shows SRL's hose clamps. Even radiator big hoses got these unique clamps. Can you see? kats

Hi Victor Laury, Yeah, I need to get them replated in someday.And I found SRL has an unique wire clamp for almost every hoses.For S30, this unique clamp can be seen at fuel tube between SUs and fuel metal pipes.Recently I saw HLS30-00476 in japan(maby some of you know, it came from california)it has this clamp for fuel line. To compair photos,SRL was applied unique clamps for most of hoses,ealry S30(espesialy this press photo failady-ZL)was applied unique clamps and ordinaly clamps half and half. Then unique clamps was used only for fuel lines. This is my guessing. I think next stage I have to do difficult charange for this unique clamp. kats

Hello all, I am so glad I got so many praise for my work. Alan T, playing Z is so much fun than flight...I can make screws for you for free but you have to stay at my home and teach english for my wife and kids.They are learning english once a week,they really want to talk to native speeker outside school and want to see how they can do as they learn. landmizzle,I have got so many parts from U.S. through ebay. These cloth braided hoses are also from ebay.I check ebay everyday,there are so many good parts which I can not find in japan. This is my daughter. kats

have a break I will be back soon. kats

Here is Alan's nice photo again to compare easily. kats

same press photo but this is fairlady-ZL. Also very eraly quater Z emblem. Note this Z has key-locked fuel lid.

press photo of Z432R.Also very early quater Z emblem. Hi 26th-Z,I did not know the fuel lid knob is made of plastic on the 1969 240Z!I noticed knob is closed at vertical position seeing many photo or magazine of earliest 240Z's driving impression. This Z432R has also vertical closed position.This proves this car is very very early production. Do you know so many japanese envy fuel lid knob because it is only equipped on Z432R in japan.So hard to see this in japan,other japanese S30 has key-locked fuel lid.

Thank you all, My HLS30-02156 (03/70)had white Z emblems before a restoration.I think they were original but now I am not sure because when I was told about "NISSAN consumer guide(orange 240Z on the top cover) " says aprroximately 2500 240Zs from the begining have chrome Z emblem. To see the parts catalog,the first piller emblems are, 76807(8)-E4600 up to 01/70 76807(8)-E4601 from 02/70 76807(8)-E4602 up to 12/70 I guess chrome Z is -E4600,but it is only up to 01/70. According to Carl Beck's web page data,and my reserch from the NISSAN shatai factory, it is clear that up to 01/70 can not reach 2500 240Zs.My english makes sence? So I was skeptical about "NISSAN consumer guide". But hi,240ZX!!Your 240Z is very close VIN to my Z,only 30 240Zs are between of ours.And you have got chrome Z emblem!! Now I want to slide to chrome Z emblems on my 240Z. Alan,I need your help about fairlady's emblem parts number. Because I found very very early fairlady-Z(like showing in the press photo and the first brochure or showed up at the day for journalists of pre-annuncement)has different piller emblem as you posted here. The difference is very small.Coloring is different,looking at the Alan's photo, around Z is just black.But the press photo of I post here,around Z there is a silver round triming.Can you see what I am talking about? I think there is some relation between chrome 240Z emblem and very very early fairlady-Z emblem.Their change had made at same time?Anyway why NISSAN changed these small things on such an early day?Once I asked Mr.MATSUO about this,but he just did not remember. kats

Hi, Alan,thank you for your transrate as usual.And we could have been meeting in KANSAI airport!!Next time you have to stay at my home!! Nate and 59ghia,I did not know that YAMAHA is well known in the U.S.Taurus has YAMAHA V6...that surprised me.Did you know the YAMAHA's emblem shows three tone tuning bars? dadds,thank you for your wonderful informations.Yes,2000GT was co-oparated with Shelby,I saw the car in some jamanese magazine.It is very cool. What a informative and enjoyable website you found,dadds!!It is amazing. Alfadog,I simply smiled when I saw your work of art.Well...lower roof for 240Z is so so for me. Like 2ManyZs and Mike and Zkid said, I think low roof is a big matter for westerners.GT40 and Lotus europe,I can not believe thay can get into the cokpit. Back to S30's height argument, Mr.UEMURA and his team got the average height of the U.S. airforce officer.The average data of 15,000 officers.Mr.UEMURA used this data to persuade Mr.MATSUO. Mr.UEMURA felt Mr.MATSUO was so obstinate.Mr.UEMURA had a confidence if S30 has this height(a bit taller than a production model)S30 can cover 97.5% of U.S. citizen according this average data.Mr.UEMURA was ready if Mr.MATSUO accepted this height, Mr.UEMURA could offer so much hard work of chassis design to reduce height as lower as he could,to make Mr.MATSUO happy and not to destroy body styling. Finaly Mr.MATSUO accept the 97.5% concept,he accept 2 inch lower not 3 inch,Mr.UEMURA offered to solve 1 inch by chassis design. P.S. this photo is the 2.3 SOHC kats

Hi everyone, Today I am asking everyone about very rare 240Z emblems. Earliest 240Z owner(like 1969)may already know,quater emblems and a rear deck emblem "240Z" are different from later ones. The letter "Z" is in chrome plated not painted white inlay. I did not know about this first,my friend Jeff told me recently.He also showed the rare emblems in degital photos,they are available on my website at http://www.geocities.jp/datsunz903/ A week ago,I happend to see this in japanese yahoo auction and no other japanese Z owner was interested in it,I got it. I know the earliest 240Z got this chrome "Z" emblem,according to the first sales brochure's top page in the U.S.Also japanese magazine showed this early emblems. But how much 240Zs have this emblem?Jeff told me in the "Nissan consumer guid"said up to HLS30-02500 have this earliest emblem. If so,and plese let me know who has this emblem and VIN number.I want to know so much. Thank you, kats