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Just a look on ebay.com tells you? I think they are very rare original in the original packing.. Her some NEAR MINT ones.. for.....US$1949,- (Hope yours are still in the factory sealed bags?) https://www.ebay.com/itm/Set-Of-4-DATSUN-240Z-260Z-280Z-HUBCAPS-NEAR-MINT-ORIGINAL-CONDITION/174305485080?hash=item28956aa118:g:5GIAAOSw8zJe1-Nw

I see a big hole round the needle here !!! (TOP PIC!) were the other has not! (compare this lower pic with the other one) youre missing a part here? The carbs with the part missing round the needle sucks less air? let us know! (Can't believe no one saw this?)

Also, you see 2 left and 2 right ones.. (watch the lips on them) left 2 and right 2 peaces in pic are the same..

I think anti squeek plates for brakepads.. antisqueek plates. A shim is to correct thickness of something like a doorlatch.. when one needs a correction in hight or width.

You where welding near the sensors on the coolant.. maybe you damaged the other sensors.. It is very difficult to say what the problem is as there are many variables.. get yourself a serv.manual and a electronics guy.. ? All i can say go through it systematical.. good luck let us know if you find something.

some pics that i found may help.. If i compare the screens it could be a 280zx screen.

I just put one in 2 weeks ago.. i recall to measure a 131 cm inside from widest (lower) corners, measured from the inside.. not sure.. at the moment i have none reserve so can't measure one for you.. (exact.. if no one else reacts send me a pm and i measure the screen in my car from the outside square left up to low right.)

? Hihihi.. L.O.L. !!!

Obviously the wrong foam? why is it so wobly? 1 sheet of 3mm thick shout work out better, now the added ones don't make it flatter..

Hello Mark, I follow your build a little... and think it's going to be a very nice car! only the door carts... You should have put some foam inbetween? That would look much better if i dare say... Just a few mm thick is sufficient.

That was my idea also! Last year i bought me an english wheel .. I don't like the glassfiber junk on my 240z so IF i start to restore it.. this time i'm putting in some steel fenders in the rear.. or maybe aluminium (also aluminum.. but we dutchies say: aluminium.. not aluminum) But that gives al kind of problems with the electric/chemical reactions between the steel and alu.. I'm thinking about it to! Would be nice to switch sometimes.. scare the hell out of someone who drives in your way haha.. Never realy looked for but i think there are electric valves to weld into your muffler(system). Let us know if you find something!

Something is going seriously wrong here.. I loaded a pic of the left extra handle.. and it did'nt work well.. my question.. did an early 240z have that one also on the left driverside door?

I've seen the missing seems to.. but what about that extra handle on the driverside door? is that a feature of the early 240z or? my feb '71 does not have it..

I've seen the video to! Nice car. If my car sounded like that the cops would make a very small package of my car in no time! haha.. Those rear wheel arches are poly glass fiber? I'm just looking around for my 240z.. (i'm almost ready with my " 280zx 1979 2+2 slick roof restauration", here on this site to see!) Is it a set i can buy somewhere? I think yours sounds nice but my experience is that after some time it gets irritating.. I would install a (electric) valve, so you can switch it.. (also useful when the cops are in near distance! ? )

For sale where?

It's a bit strange.. on the big third pic on the site (the big pic's) i can see clearly over(?) 12 ! dents alone in the left door! On pic no: 27 or 28 from the small pic's i can see with great difficulty 1 or 2.. ? Are those little pics from many years ago or what?

Haha.. yeah... might be a good idea.. But i'm a bit tired for now.. the 280 is on the carlift now in my own garage and i'll have to do the underside with teroson/waxoil and stuff.. and a good cleanup.. Still have a few plastic parts that shoud fit someware under the 2 front light buckets and in the wheelwells Haha.. no idea were they go.... i have to look in the manual! Another look at the stainless all around the car is also necessary.. polish some faint scratches out.. (i decided to do this ON the car because you can't polish them off the car... (ask people here on the site! ) About restoring a 240z.. i don't have to restore mine just give it a few nice rear fender wheelwells and a new paintjob.. Clean up the engineroom (by taking the engine out and give that a good service..) and paint that as well.. oh well.. ? take it all out and restore the car hahaha.... ? it has been 22 years ago that i started the restore! (Drive it now for over 20 years.. IN THE WINTER!!)

My feb '71, 240z has the same coil. still working now for 49 years..

Finally... Yesterday my Datsun 280zx slickroof 1979 2+2 got inspected for the Dutch APK (english-MOT or German-TUV.) It Passed! Here some of the last things i installed, after some... eh.. a lot!! of wax in the doors i installed the carts, they are 41 years old, can you believe it? (the pre owners were pretty good to the car.. they cared..) A clear feature of a early 280zx, (chrome is nicer in real then on picture.) extra attention to the original foam in the middle of the pic... the door is still dripping waxoil.. :-0 sticky plastic against sticky plastic so the mechanism can move! this spare wheel casing plate got some new foam.. The rear window installed, even the rear heating works! (The installation of the stainless was no pain in the butt, thanks to a rubber treadment that made everything slide inn! ? ) First you put in the stainless then the window into the hatch. Rear roof cover installed.. (still the original one.) Then there was the front glass.. When testfitting with a "college" he hitted the edge but we thought it did'nt hurt it.. A small crack became a big one... so.. this was the car's 4th windscreen.. i had to order a new one.. AAARRRGGGHHH !!! See the crack coming from the corner.. I forgive him... it can happen to anyone.. A Pic for future screen installers.. ? (sorry can't rotate the pic..) A clip, normally they are on a strip, 7 in top and 9 in the bottom of the screen. BTW.. the windscreen was for a fairlady 260zx... i've never seen one hahaha.. it does not exist! Still to install.. these.. where they go? not the faintest idea.. wheelwell? RTFM! And then i was at the shop with suddenly 2 cars.. nice set hey?? Finally at home (Half a mile hahaha) It rained a bit, cleaning has to be done, some of the waxoil sprayed over it accidently.. When i drove to the APK (MOT) i felt that my giant friend (NOT!) Danny the first painter (who did'nt paint!) had uninstalled the steeringwheel with a hammer? It says clearly on a sticker on the wheel: DO NOT HIT WITH A HAMMER! But hey.. he's a butthead.. clearly.. so i'm looking for a new bearing or steering column assembly.. again some extra costs because one thinks to have found someone who can do it for a few bucks.. (He was a son of a college of a friend.. told my friend if he knows someone for a job next time... say NOTHING!! Now this restore is coming to an end.. i can say that the costs were a bit more than thought at first but all and all it was within budget.. It took from buying till this day almost 7 years.. They went by fast.. Later on i will put some pic's here from a clean car in the sun...

Yeah, That's one of the diff's of a US. and a euro car. the whole seat looks different and i see sometimes leather seats in de USA? Or is that fake leather?

Here my seats, how they look after 39 year (now 41 years old). I'm following this topic, because i think that these seats will not stay good after i go to use them dayly.. As the s30 cars become more expensive the s130 series wins in popularity.. i'm sure. ? I think the day that a manufacturer gets more into reman. parts for the s130 is not far away!

There are some pic's from my seats, but they did'nt need any repair or so, just cleaning, i cleaned them on a very hot day with lots of soap and a high pressure cleaner.. keeping distance ofcourse otherwise i would distroy the fabric..

Are you sure? I was told that it's tricot, whatever that is.. it's a bit elastic.. (see my seats in my restore topic, restauration of a 280zx slick roof 1979.)

I think there are few original windscreens tinted left.. They were replaced after all these years..? All 240z's in europe were with blue tint.. I believe those in the States had untinted when specially ordered untinted! So there are VERY very VERY few delivered that way.. I think it's more easy to find a needle in a GIANT haystack!

Lots of parts installed this week, all in good used or new state, it's nice to see that it's finaly going to get ready.. The windscreen is still not in but we are going to do it ourselves.. (as we say.. if you want it done the right way.. you have to do it yourself... oeps.. ) The guy for the windscreen is not showing up, he says he got no clips or anything to work with so have started the job by putting in some clips and did already a test fit and then you can see there is not much overlapping.. "glued" the clips i have in with some rubber sealant.. After some good research, how to fit it, I'll put the windscreen in myself with maybe some help of the shop owner. I got all the professional stuff for it handy so i should go well. I also installed the door rubber, it's like new stuff and been in storage a long time. Very nice soft rubber that fits to the door glass perfectly! Rear side windows.. Some super nice side covers!! Front parts installed! Bumper stay.. (with a tap in it for cleaning up the thread.) inside the chassis where the stay go's.. without the NEW wax.. (was wax'ed a long time ago..) And with wax on! Installed! The front ready..