Go240Zags

Right now I'm curious to try and ferret out the original color, I'm sure I'll find it hiding behind one of the panels, or showing thru the not so good black paint job. I'm a little leary about trailering it from the Seattle area to Oroville over the pass, but will be looking at it as an adventure. Here's a picture link, currently waiting approval. http://www.classiczcars.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=22764&cat=500&ppuser=5416

Okay, so I've been whining about the condition of my current project (12-70 Series I). Everywhere I look there's rust and rust on top of that. My welder friend has had health problems so none of the repairs I thought I'd have done this spring/summer were accompished. Went and cut out the passenger floorpan and rust kept going up the firewall. So, I advertised here for a better shell -- although the ad in the wanted section didn't get me results, the ad for the 280ZX here and eBay seems to have. One of our club members (a self-described infrequent poster) noticed that I shared the same home town as his brother and gave me a call. He has several Zs including a black (7-70) Series I shell (actually a whole car w/ engine & tranny, condition unknown) that he would sell me for the $600 he had in it. It seems he bought it to transfer parts from his lil' Red Z that was hit by another driver. After he bought it tho he found a clean Series 1 in Oregon and bought that. Anyway, I'll post some photos here and you guys tell me what you think. The floorpans are solid (altho the pass. side has had a repair) no major rust anywhere (rear quarters, rear hatch, etc.) except for the eaten battery box area and one bad area in the dogleg by the rocker. My old Series I had horrible rust in all these areas and more. By the time I replaced all the necessary panels it would have probably had more new metal than old. The front fenders on the shell are beautiful. The paint is not in very good shape and the interior is bad, but I have all the interior pieces to fix that. I think this will work much better for my rebuilt L28 F54 I posted pics of last week. I hate to part with my first Z project, but will be stripping off every usable part to blend with my nicer shell. If after I get this accomplished and anyone wants the old shell I'll probably just give it away, however I'm keeping the repair panels that I don't need to sell off on eBay to pay for parts (suspension, brakes, etc.) that I will need. This new shell is black, but I will be painting it something else. With the old shell that was 905 red I felt my decision was made for me -- stick to the original color. With the new shell I am torn between red, silver gray and white, not quite up to the yellow car club. Red is great, but a cop magnet, silver can look fantastic and white is easy to keep clean looking and matches my pickup. Decisions, decisions.

Was watching an old Perry Mason and when it ended Matlock came on (hate to admit that I didn't turn it right away, I am not that old) and I looked up and someone drove up in what looked like a 280Z (yellow or mustard gold), it was night and it looked like it had the bigger bumpers. Now I have to watch the whole episode to see if it shows up again. Episode called "The Nurse" from 1987.

I replaced my ceiling fan in my living room with one that better matched my furnishings/taste - mission/arts & crafts. The original fan was wired with only two wires and not three so the only way to control the fan and light (other than on/off w/ the wall switch) was through the pull chains. I found a switch on eBay that they also sell at Lowes, etc. that will control both the fan and lights seperately without wiring in a third wire. It is actually a remote unit installed in the top of the fan where it attaches to the ceiling and then at the wall switch is the controller. With this switch I can vary the speed of the fan between high, medium, low and off, as well as dim the light to suit my mood. The part that replaces the wall switch has a small battery in it but it is over a year old now and still going strong. You can get the same thing in a hand held remote (that will attach to the wall too), but I need another remote like I need a hole in my head. I don't mind getting up and walking to the switch, I can use the exercise. RFOL. One minor drawback if a truck or something drives by and has just the right frequency, as it has once or twice, it shut the fan off. This used to happen when I was a kid with our first remote controlled color TV. It had a radio remote, rather than infrared. So we had to unplug the TV at night or you might wake up to voices coming from the living room. The actual remote didn't work very well, but we could change the channel by gigling our keys or by dropping a fork. Great trick to show your friends, only it got irritating when it happened by accident in the middle of your program. The tuner actually went "chunk, chunk" when the stations turned.

What year RX7 are these from? Is the seat height similar to the original Zed seats? Just would like to know if a tall person would lose any head room with this mod. Thanks for sharing, Gary D.