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Good luck, State Farm insisted on totaling my car unless I could find an almost exact duplicate selling for higher than what they thought or I pay 300 bucks to have it appraised. And my car was in it's prime when it got rear ended! Farmer's Insurance (the other guy's insurance), ended up agreeing to cough up the cash once I sent them copies of thousands in reciepts from restoring the car. If you're not concerned about having a salvage title you could buy the car back from the insurance company at a low cost.

The paint code for the Monte Carlo Blue is B66P. Unfortunately most of the money from selling this will go into paying off my 2004 Civic I bought in September for daily driving (gotta pretty kickin deal on ebay for it). The rest of the money will go towards paying off credit cards and into my 56 Ford pickup project. Someday I shall get another Z project, and as far as quality goes it will blow this one out of the water. Craig 71 240z http://www.evil-wheels.com (shop I work at)

Oh yeah, here's the link http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4619261417&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1 durh

I've decided it is time for me to part ways with my beloved 240z :sleepy: . I've listed it on ebay and I figured I'd let you guys here know. I would love to see it go to a fellow Z fan. It was the car of the month back in April of 2004 if I remember right. Good night and good luck.

I got rear ended about 2 months ago and now after finally winning the battle with the insurance company I'm finally getting around to fixing my baby. So I ordered a new rear panel from motorsport. I tore out the old body panel and held the new one in place only to discover the new panel is complete crap. It has the stamping for the bumper mounts, the exhaust cutout, and the imprint in the middle , but it does not have nearly enough curve going down or any side to side! I can make it fit, but it will be a lot of work, and it won't look very nice. I can't believe I paid $250 for this pile of crap! So now I'm looking for a used rear panel from a junk Z. If anyone has one that will fit a 71 240 please contact me! 831-419-9736

So I got rear ended in traffic last week, no biggie for me really, I can fix it all myself. But my insurance is trying to say the car is technically totaled, since it's over 5k in damages. But here's the rub, me n my pops decided to have the car insured at 10k after I finished restoring it 2 years ago, but the insurance company apparently didn't do that and never told us. So now they want proof saying the car is worth more than the value of the damages. I've got receipts for 12k worth of new parts from the resto, but they want resale value. I figure in the condition my car was in before the accident I should be able to get 7k easy. I was wondering what you guys have seen Zs like mine go for in the past few years (check the gallery to see what I've done to mine). This is all just a big headache that I don't have a lot of spare time to deal with so any help would be greatly appreciated!

I know what's wrong with it, that's not the original radio!

Hey guys, haven't been around in a while. Things have been hectic lately. I know this is a little off topic but I figured I'd get a good answer here. My dad requested a bottle of nice single malt scotch for xmas. I'm more of a beer nut myself so I'm clueless on scotch. I figure there's a diverse enough population on this forum that someone will have a good recommendation. Thanks oh btw, tryin to keep it under $50 Thanks

Just wanted to let ya guys know there's a series one 240 at the moss landing pick n pull. The body is pretty rotted but the interior plastic panels are CHERRY! I would have taken the door panels but the driver's door was taken. I think the engine is gone, and the seats are torn up, but I figured someone should snag that plastic. Z on!

There is actually an inspection type plate that unbolts from wheel well in front of the gas tank. It's held in by 3 or 4 phillips head screws. get that off and it's easy street to the bumper bolt.

Get rid of all rust from the surface before you apply anything over the metal. It may take a while but the rust will break through eventually.

If you can, tint your primer/sealer close to the final color you plan on painting your car. It will save you paint cuz you won't need as much color to cover the primer. With darker colors it may actually be better to spray a dark gray primer/sealer.

The best thing you can do is take off as many parts as you can. Take off the hood, doors, hatch, cowl, everything. Jamb the back sides of those parts you took off and then paint the outside of the parts, car, and the jambs on the car all at once. This way you don't get any masking lines in your jambs.