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Strut rod tried to make a emergency U-turn, lower arm definitely took a crap.. So at this point I am looking all up and down the car for body damage. To my utter shock, everything else is A-OK! - Full black interior [Check] - Engine runs (Without hesitation!) [Check] - Leaks (Minimal) - Manual transmission [Check] Crappy picture, but nonetheless.. 4 TO THE FLOOR! So I gamble my way to from his $400 to $325, and he bit the hook. So off I go to U-haul.. ETA: 10:30am I spend 2-3 hours driving to countless U-hauls trying to find a damn car dolly so I can get this over with, and I finally do! ETA: 1:30pm I get back to PO's house and pay the guy immediately and in return I received.. Few of the service records.. I wonder what's in the torn brown envelope. And.. Along with the pink slip of course! And then the question dawned upon me, HOW IN THE WORLD AM I GOING TO GET IT UP ON THE DOLLY!? :ohgeez: After COUNTLESS hours (which seemed like days), countless curse words and ALOT of ingenuity, I managed to get 'er up there. ETA: 6:30pm So after all of that, the PO forgot to sign the the pinkslip! So I waited 15 minutes for him to come back home (he had left), which turned to 20... which turned to 30... at this point I'm freezing my arse off, and filled with grease/dirt. He finally arrives an hour later gets it signed and off I go! ETA: 8:30pm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Her New Home: The next day she is introduced to her fellow companion, a face to face introduction was in order... Part of the damage.. (I liked the wheels too!! ) As she sits as of last week.. That'll buff right out right? ...RIGHT?! Fun picture Does anyone know who makes these wheels btw? Model? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Plan? To fix the damage and get her back on the road! After that, who knows..

Back Story: Scowering(?) through CL for a couple of months and researching different types of sporty vehicles in hopes of one day getting my hands on one but yet had no idea on what car specifically I ended up with a list. I was to get either a 240sx, a Cressida, a RX-7, a Celica Supra, a Miata, a S30Z, a S130Z, or an early model Z31. For those of you still wondering what won... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Car: 1976 Datsun 280z (1 year shy of being SMOG Exempt!! ) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Purchase: I saw it last week on CL for a pretty small chunk of change and thought it wouldn't hurt to check it out. So I did.. and this is what I saw. ETA: 9am Pretty good looking car for less than I paid for my GS right!? (Forgot to take pics of it without the car cover :ohgeez:) The catch? Now... the regular joe schmoe would've ran far, far away from it as soon as he laid his eyes upon that. But being the optimistic SOB that I am I went ahead and jacked up the car to scope out the damage underneath so I could kill all doubts I had about it. This is what I saw... Driver's side.. looks ok.. That is NOT a lamp you're looking at :ohgeez: Let there be light! Hmm... Let's look at the other side shall we.. Ehh... that's normal right? Gnarly sway bar bolt bend..

I'll do you one better and throw in a whole build thread in a few. Thanks, I hope so too! haha Thanks, you got it. I'm on a very tight budget atm (college life I tell ya..) so any help would be greatly appreciated! That I did. You wouldn't happen to be the PO would you? haha Thank you all for the warm welcome. I'm surprised there's some SoCal action in here to be honest, after lurking around for the past couple of days I was almost 100% convinced that this forum was dead since a lot of the threads on here date back to the early to mid 2000's!

Hi, thought I would introduce myself.. so... hi! The name's Walter and I'm from Los Angeles, CA. I recently purchased a yellow '76 280z that got hit from the front passenger side. Seems like the only damage was the fender and that side of the suspension. I bought the whole suspension set up for that side the very next day from the junkyard, but now I realize that I also need a new rack and pinion.. so that's the plan.

Never been there myself but have heard that Mike's Z shop is a bit on the expensive side..