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He hasn't been 'convicted' of anything. He has only been accused.

driven counter-clockwise?

I say "put the 44mm on the spare S20" Make it your special race engine and keep the Z432 original. I'm drooling. Merry Christmas!

Keep the transmission mount bracket in place to insure proper alignment at the tunnel.

Morton took a great line into turn one. Late braking on the outside. Real great execution.

A comment was made about radios; no, they don't have radios necessarily. This is vintage racing, not pro racing. And John's brakes were not cold. He just came out of turn one. John drove into the back of Brian, plain and simple.

The Chevron is RHD. Chevron is an English race car manufacturer with all sorts of credentials. The B8 was a 2-liter sports car championship car from the mid-late 60s. They came with BMW or Ford Cosworth 2-liters. Tube frame and aluminum panel chassis.

I never raced in historic events, just SCCA. They were both past the spinning car on the left when the Chevron took the line into the kink. The Chevron was ahead - it was his line. Morton plowed into the back of him. That's the way I see it.

The yellow car is a Chevron B8. 2 liter sports racer.

I have that video. Be careful of the DVD 'region' because Japanese produced DVDs don't normally play in North American machines. I had to get an "all region" DVD player to see it. I have several other DVDs with the same dilemma.

Where are you getting the photos, Blue? Are you clipping them from the video? Or, has someone already clipped them? These are all from a Nissan promotional video. Look closely at you photo of the vinyl top / rear spoiler. See the shark grills?

There is a special service tool for the chrome mounting nut. See the two holes in the face? The tool in the bottom left corner is a knurled tube with two pins on the end. It fits over the handle and turns the chrome face nut.

Pretty Car!

Now, that's how I remember Bob Sharp.

Ha! They skipped the GT period and went straight to Shelby!

Yea, I'm interested.

Yea, super glue clamped.

Wrong knobs

Hurray! My copy arrived. Looking forward to lovely bedtime browsing.

Great conversation - complete Homer Simpson! Don't take your car to them any more.

Hey! I have a car in the same condition! I would reasonably expect to "diddle" with the fenders depending on your expectations of fit. I have no expectation that a body piece is just going to bolt right up - perfect fit. Doors, hood, deck and fenders included. They are all going to need alignment. For my car, I bought used original fenders in good condition.

Oh, I wouldn't use anything as strong as steel wool. That "chrome" is a silver mylar coating over plastic and the green stuff you see is silver corrosion in the mylar. Use silver polish or my preference is "Eagle One Nevr-Dull". It comes in cotton wadding in a can. It will take off the corrosion and you will find that the mylar will be pitted. Liquid silver polish is much softer and it won't take off the corrosion as well. Both, though, will shine up the silver mylar to your best expectations.

I like this topic; Alan as you know. Along with MikeB, we discussed and collected through this topic for quite the enjoyable time! Alan, we are pretty much on the same page. Very little of the story adds up to what we have learned. My "photographic explanation" was rather lame. You make me laugh. Really, the obvious answer to the lack of photographs is that they just don't exist. Some of my best pictures come from Datsun USA quarterly publications. You never know. We may see something new. Blue, you are on a very good track and thanks for your postings. You don't need to colorize to prove your point. It is pretty much accepted that HLS30-00006 is the car. I was impressed with your Z-at-Daytona Hoovers by the way. Good find. I would be willing to bet that the California debut car was one of the Canada Test Cars. It was silver. The cars were in town. The NY car was flown out to LA overnight - NOT!

I think we are guilty of applying today's standards / accepted norms to the 50 year old event. Black-and-white imaging was the norm for newsprint photography back then and color imagery was reserved for 'expensive' publications. Further more, Datsun's announcements did not bear the importance to the North American automotive scene that Nissan's presence does now. Most of the published, time relevant images I have seen from the moment are the stock photos provided in the press kit which, at the time, were used to avoid the cost of a photographer and delay associated with photographic reproduction. By providing press release photography, Datsun insured the imagery that they wanted and the time frame for release of information by supplying press release packages and images. As a result, we are just not going to see a plethora of images from which to compare and discuss. Frankly, what we have now is pretty good. Oh, and no, you just can't colorize an old B&W image and then draw conclusions from it. Doesn't work that way.

It's a throttle return damper. Yea, 4 types, 240dkw. Three different castings - one of them machined.