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He must have had that car for at least 2 weeks.. 🙊 ... I never have heard he had one.. (But as i am a real hater of soccer.. (we call it: dat stomme voetbal!) really allergic... I don't know what cars Johan drove.. i know that he had a citroën SM after the 240z.. what a disappointment that must have been...pffff...)

Nice Cars you got there, like the orange one! If you need some unrusty bumpers i got a few sets left haha.. maybe someone is willing to make me a good offer for a bulk buy of 3 sets of good old chrome bumpers.. they are 240 and 260z euro bumpers and a set usa with coat/towel hangers on .. 😉

Later on in the production they where left out.. with good reason, if not very good maintained, they are a big danger, thats why you never see them (yeaah yeah.. only in collectors cars.. and they are dangerous in my opinion... but thats just my opinion!!)

Here is Sabine in a van on topgear Sabine Schmitz's Nurburgring Van CHALLENGE | Top Gear - Part 2 - YouTube

Haha.. Yeah.. abuse... I tell you a secret.. i ABUSE my 240z much more then any other car.. (It's probably because it needs a 3th restauration anyway!) (Also because my 280 and 300zx are almost like new and costed me much much more... Blood sweat and teers and bucks! haha) Btw.. nasty color that 280zx brrrrr....

I've seen it! In all the years top gear was on, on sunday evening i was ALWAYS ready to look at BBC2.. She was many times a guest in Top-Gear.

You can comfort yourself then with the thought that it's going to a good home.. but it IS a sad thing always to let go of such a beaut..

March - 16th 2021 is a sad day, Sabine has died at the age of 51.. Queen of the Nurburgring died after a long battle with cancer.. Top Gear - Sabine Schmitz Tribute - YouTube

These cars are on the rise, as s30 cars (240/260z) are getting expensive. A good to restore car can cost 5-10 and a restored is starting at 30 grand i think? But it is very difficut to value them as they are much more complicated cars as the simple 240z.. (only the electrics are a 3 fold of the s30 car..) I got in my lifetime 2 280zx t-bars and... i don't want them.. why.. the t-bar makes the car much to flexible! I restored (ON HERE) a 280zx slick roof and they are much firmer. Al my cars were 2+2's as i don't fit with my 6 foot 4 in a 2 seater.. (seats are much different and to high.. i hit my head) Also get pics of the beams under the car, most of them have been molested on a 2 column lift.. A good chassis can be lifted with it on the 4 spots were you normally put your scissorjack, if thats not possible you better stay away from that car! (The inside layer in the outer beams.. (you call it the doglegs??) who are made of tripple sheet of steel are rusted away... you can't see them. (only with a endoscopecamera, there are holes in the inner sheet of steel behind the upholstery..)

Hi, Have you sold the car yet? These cars are now fetching higher prices i think as the 240z/s30 cars become to expensive for more and more z fans.. I bought one years ago, they went here in europe for a few grand and then they need a lot of restoring. I now have a 280zx slick roof (a story about this resto is on here..) and if you bid me 30 grand for the car i have to decline.. 😵 The ZXR was a zx with a spoiler on the rear, yours can be one but you have to find that out.. Carl beck could have a list of these 1009 zxr's chassisnumbers.. i know mine was just 1 digit off of a ZXR.. zxr's were always 2 seaters, personally i can't fit in those, thats why i got a 2+2 280zx.

Hé welcome here, you have a very nice car there! One question i got.. Why is the 5'th button, preselect button on your radio green? Never seen that (NOT that i've seen it all hey !!! 😄) ? Have you found your oil leak? I have a 240z i fixed up in 2000 and never leaked oil, i think it's very possible to have a 240z thats bone dry under it..

Hi, Your welcome! I believe i had the US 4 speed diff so something like 3,7:1 ?? (Maybe i had a 3,5 in i don't know.. i now have the 3,9 in it i believe.. (I am sure that it was the original Dutch car diff that came with the Fs5C71b transmission.) Personally i never have heard of a 3,364? Thats a low one! I only knew the 1:3,5 1:3,7 1: 3,9 and 1:4,11

something for strengthening the center console? It seems to have metric threads in it.. or.. something thats behind the card-read light.. or.. The round edge suggests it keeping something flat ( upholstery ) on it's place..??

Remembers me of a drive we had in the carclub ones.. someone had a leak and what could be done... haha the solution is a ripe banana! You can stop a radiator leak with a ripe banana.. You just have to peel it and stuff the banana into the spot where the leak is! It wil get dry and hard and stops the leak, fill up and finish your drive.. Haha later on, weeks later.. i heard he still drove around with a banana in his radiator!! 🤣

On my first place.... can i jack it up on all 4 corners with the original scissorjack (on the RIGHT) spot!) without distroying the chassis? 4 speed or 5 speed.. or automatic... i would throw in a 5 speed anyway! a Fs5c71a or b Or a Fs5w71b from the zx.. Don't forget the diff..

Euro spec cars are ofcourse much less sold and much more rare.. They most of the time rusted away.. Most 240z you see in europe now are imports from California or another dry state. (directly identified by the (in my eyes "only making the car heavyer") bumperettes!) I know that in the Netherlands around 240 cars 240z's were sold! They costed around 20000 guilders, to compare you could drive almost 4! Ford taunus from that money!!!!! (No not Taurus we had the TauNUS.. Made in Germany) The portugese version was like all euro versions i guess.. ?? One exception i know of.. I know that a France version at some time had no reverse (white) lights and therefore had only half red/half orange lights at the rear.. (Very special.. i know because quite coincidentally i have a set of those on shelf.)

Hello UM240, I (could be wrong but i) had a 240z 1972 in the early nineties (orig. dutch car) that was to far gone and till today i use it's Fs5C71a (EDIT: Fs5C71B !!) Gearbox in my (also like you red US.) 240z! At first i tested this with the original diff from the 4 speed but you can better install the original to the 5 speed gearbox differential.. otherwise your first gear gets a bit lòòòònngg.. and it's bad for your clutch.. (The end speed of first gear is to high) About the driving on the "autobahn" I drove the 240z with that gearbox with standard original engine, no restore or extra stuff at 210 km/hour.. a lot of shaking going on but it went that fast haha! Faster was my 300zxtt it did 265 km/hour on the autobahn! Hihi The fastest was my fireblade at ~295km/hour.. (i could not exactly read the tacho as i was laying flat on it.)🤣 EDIT ! : I made a mistake.. I use a Fs5C71B out of my 1972 euro 240z (Orig delivered in the Netherlands in 1972) So not the Fs5C71a

Thanks Terrapin Z , for that list. (Zed Head, i was more referring to the 280zx that has more different types.. ( also the 280z was never delivered to europe, i don't know them well..)) Now i know i have a reserve on the shelf for my 280zx but don't know if it will work.. (my '79 has p7100?? or p 7801??) and the reserve unit i got has 22611-P8601 and.. i don't see that one in the list!! haha.. there must be another list for euro cars or so ??? (I don't know out what 280zx this reserve came.)

But not interchangeable.. This is a early type of .. i call them analog computer units.. (as it's NOT a ECU as we know them in modern cars. This unit has no clocktiming or microprocessor in it.) NEVER just change your unit with just another one because the connections are different.. see the sticker on later ZX units for further information. These units were made for about 8 years and there are many different types.. (only for the 280zx there were 4 different HP engines and therefore i guess also at least 4 different ECCS units..) ECCS = Electronic Concentrated engine Control System.

A good and sheap restauration is possible in Poland.. There are good shops with low labor costs.. An example i've seen was a sort of army jeep resto by a firm called Marian (No girls name it's the firm name..) It was done for michael Manousakis (Yes a greek living in Germany for almost or all his life.) It was in a television show called "the steelbuddies" in German TV. Here a video of that firm.. There must be (somewhere) a video about the restauration of a Ford Mutt for around 14000 euro's, an open sort of jeep.. Rundgang Fort Marian in Polen, Außenlager der Steel Buddies - YouTube

I got no idea what you mean by that.. sorry.. English is my second lang... But anyway... The datsun 240z was 1 DAY!! for sale and seen over 1200 times and it's gone! 👍

I got almost all those parts 😆 Most valuable part seems to be a new nos radiator ive got in it's original box! But sending it to the US is going to be a even more expensive hobby... The last time i checked these were around 4-500 euro a piece..pfff... IF you can get one overhere.. I once sended jim (Z-up) a new mid-part original 240z exhaust and the transport was about 350 dollar iirc. 🙈

I need a very small gear thats in this clock, a white gear of about 12-15 teeth that was crumbled to peaces in this 280zx 1979 clock.. I got two of these with the same problem, Does anyone have these gears?

I got them from a german?/swedish? company (Würth?) lying in the pile of parts on my attic... dust on them from 30! years of lying.. Just Maybe... i'm gonna use them on my own old 240z with build in glasfiber ( terrible ) rear fenderflares.