26th-Z

Craig, My part books show the E4100 subscript for what is illustrated as the bullet type of mirror. I don't have a listing for the N3400. Your mirrors look genuine, however. Nice looking car!

Oh, now I see what you are talking about. No, early cars (at least mine) don't have the supports. Must be careful not to lean on the fenders. What's your serial number, Craig? That's grey primer behind your fender guard with no paint finish. My cars had several areas like this.

Yea, I was talking about the fender shield. I (evidently) don't understand your fender support question.

I don't like the clearcoat finish and take exception to the durability claim. I would go with a solid color finish. THe undersides of the fenders should be the same color as the car. The fender supports were not welded on to the unibody, they were bolted. I'll bet, if you look, you have the holes for those bolts and perhaps the captive nuts.

I completely agree considering the picture you posted, Brian.

Carl posted the link on the second post. What more do you want?

Arnie is completely correct.

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Yea, Van MacDonald got money from Datsun occasionally back then. We were all racing British cars and mildly jealous. Kendall Oil had a program and we got free oil. Champion spark plugs had the same sort of deal - all through the local distributor - so you had to know the guys. Goodyear gave tires out to a very select few, usually 'qualifying' tires, but you had to give them back. We knew the Goodyear guys pretty well and had access to Formula Ford qualifying tires at a reduced cost. It was great for us as the tires had only one heat cycle on them. Brand new Goodyears were $50 a corner back then which was fairly expensive for us. SCCA events were closed to the public back then. I think they still are; you have to be a member to get in. So the decals we got were the decals to put on the car. I guess there were promotional decals at pro events, but I was racing most of the time (back then) so what we got went on the car. For pro events, you had to finish in the top three of your class to qualify for contingency money. If you look at pictures of 240 Zs from the early 70s, like Brock's or Sharp's car, there weren't more than three decals. Brock had the Simoniz deal but Sharp just had Kendall, Champion and Goodyear decals. I don't recall ever seeing anything more than a Champion decal on Don Kearney's car. Back in those days, the big sponsorship conversation we hear so much about didn't exist. I would say from about the late 70s forward was when sponsorship became part of the road racing sport. Up until then, it was all private / personal money.

Ya-know, if you go back and look at photographs of C-Production 240-Zs of the '70s, they don't have more than two or three decals / stickers. You'll see a Champion spark plug sticker almost always. Perhaps a Goodyear sticker and an oil company sticker, but that's about it. Z-cars entered in endurance races had more stickers, but that's because there was award money available and those were 'pro' races. There really wasn't reward money in SCCA racing back then - arguably. And as I recall, sports car road racers frowned upon the whole stock car roundyround thing.

Here are some more

I hate to see the potential of this thread degrade to a discussion about stock cars / NA$CAR so I'll post some appropriate vintage decals that you would have seen in the 70s on a racing 240Z in the US.

That looks very much like what I have. There should be quite a bit of info about this in the archives. Steel syncros are preferred over bronze ones. "It's off a 1970 he had" - not a 1970 240Z. That's from the competition parts catalog.

I don't see anything wrong with the asking prices for the yellow '71 or the white '73. The yellow '71 has provenance if it is, in fact, the R&T car - and it could be - looks just like the car from the Hemmings article but not so much the February Road & Track. Hmmm... The white '73 might be a little high priced but that's what really nice clean cars have been going for. Nice clean cars were being snapped up in the $20K range five years ago. I have to agree with Carl (although I don't know where he thinks he's going to find a car with 1200 miles) that a 'perfect' car would be able to demand the price range he mentions.

I want to point out, and if you look at the pictures I attached in post #4, that the word PACIFIC and a star shape is inscribed on the body of the original cap. Actually, the star shape is on either end of the word PACIFIC.

The choke knob isn't original. Doesn't surprise me that it would have a plastic fan. The metal fans had the habit of throwing a blade and the plastic ones deliver higher capacity. 26th was converted early in her life. Looks like a fairly clean car and I would hope he sees the $16,000 he's looking for.

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Very nice wheels, Jerry. I think you will find a lot of interest in them. I wonder what Gs Mr. Negativity is snorting up his nose. From the Minilite web site: "The original Minilite wheel made in magnesium was probably the most successful motorsport wheel in the 1960's and 70's and in its classic form the design is still winning historic races and rallies today." "We continue to manufacture limited runs of original wheels in magnesium, primarily for racing purposes due to their high strength and low weight (33% lighter than aluminum). These are the ultimate competition wheel for racing and rallying where unsprung weight reduction is required without compromising strength and safety."

I had one when I was in college. Wet sleeve engine and it was difficult for me to keep a head gasket in it. Valve adjustment was more difficult because it had shims on top of the valve stems rather than a screw and lock nut. Really enjoyed it and if you look around the internet, there is plenty of info on them. I'm not certain of the 'veloce / normale' designation for a 1967 Duetto. The early models did not have the chopped tail like the later versions. My Duetto had headlight covers also.

What more need I say?

The 903 dark blue pictured in both links is a Vintage Z most probably restored by Pierre. So what you're looking at is a copy. A PPG product. Blue, as a color, tends to fade quickly like reds fade. But there are many sources for the correct color here...search the archives. MikeB has an original 903. Les Cannaday would know. I don't know if Pierre is still around. Best of luck. Blue is a real snazzy color on a Z.

The 'leather top" treatment appears in photographs of S30 prototype development all the way back to plan A in 1966. The last of the prototype development included wind tunnel testing of full scale models and I have photographs of the leather top on those prototypes. In terms of "factory options", the leather top along with a number of other options were not available in North America until the 1972 model year when a publication listed the options in North American dealer literature. I do not believe cars imported into the US came equipped with the options and were either installed at port of entry or the dealer. However, there IS a 1972 model year option brochure for North American imports and the "leather top" is included.

Oh contrairio! The "leather top" was a factory option - part number D4160-00003 and superseded by D4160-00016.

I'm in agreement with all of the advice you're getting. The blue '71 is toast for everyone except the most hardy with delusions of perversion. Probably the best bodywork pictorial currently on this site is: take432r Gallery - Classic Zcar Club Photo Gallery if you want to see what it could be like, but also, how smaller areas should be done.

Just returned from my Sebring jaunt to see the DeltaWing. And I appologize - the DeltaWing is racing in P1, not P2 as I previously thought. I was impressed - generally. The car is small. Much smaller than any of the rest of the P1 or P2, for that matter, counterparts. But this is pretty much the end of relevance to our discussion. It no longer sports a Nissan engine, the original team is gone. The car is now being prepared in the Panoz facilities in Georgia and it is powered by an Elan engine: 1.9 liters, turbo charged and rated at 345hp. As you probably know by now, the engine blew up about one hour into the race, right in front of me. A gentle breeze was blowing our way and the smoke blew right into us. The car looked good in Thursday night practice. Very fast and right up there with the rest of the P1 group. It did not qualify well at all on Friday and seemed off song. Shades of things to come perhaps. I hear it will be at Mazda Raceway in May. deltawing - Home