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While my Z isn't near flawless these prices are definately making me worry about where I park mine. If I remember correctly years and years ago I saw the green 240 from Wick Humbles book for sale at a car show for about $12,000.

and a couple more (keeps the thread readable long after the ebay auction has ended)

here's a couple of the pics from the listing

I'd get a 510 for the fun and style of it. A 280Z or ZX with good AC so I'd have something fun to drive in the summer. The problem is with any of those a clean one is an expensive one anymore.

I like the painted floor and track lighting Nice in-home showroom

it is basically this one: http://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/PROD/PCLC03B/17-8052 the downside for me is that it adds more hoses to the engine bay, I like the clean look. And although I doubt it would, it seems to add more places for a massive oil leak to happen. The Z doesn't come out for the hot parts of the summer (I'm too much of a wuss to go without A/C) but it does get some half hour long freeway time at 70-80 mph.

are there any downsides to having one? I'm getting close to parting out or scrapping my white 73 (a sad day) and it has a good one on it but I'm not sure if it is something I need on my 'new' 73. Is it a benifit in non-racing applications? -Trevor www.geocities.com/z-car

the paint job. But from the other thread I can see I'm the exception in that view. I mean, I guess you could paint SS emblems or a schwastica on a VW if you wanted to tie the car in to that history. But I can't imagine a sane person thinking of doing that. Somehow the Japanese came away from that war with a far better reputation than the Germans while committing atrocities that would have made the Germans sick to their stomachs. Am I ashamed to be driving a Japanese built car? No, but I don't want to associate it with that legacy. And I have far too much respect for our own WWII veterans, the things they went through and the things they saw done by the Japanese in that war to drive around in something like that, anymore than I would fly a Japanese flag on my house.

that would definately be in bad taste.

and a photo studio. Some of those shots are impressive.

great post! I muddled through a ton of posts with questions on different exhausts when I was looking at one for my Z and this would have been a very helpful one to have had then.

After 15 years of owning a bondo'd up rusted out maaco painted Z I finally get a good condition one with original paint and while cleaning it up this morning I discover that someone took their key and made a little 4" partial loop on the passengers door while walking by it. I've only had it a couple months, it's only been in a parking lot probably less than a half dozen time and probably on 2 or 3 since the last time it was cleaned. Always parked well away from other cars and never for long. Fortunately, they didn't put a lot of time or effort into it so it only goes all the way through the paint for about half of it but it still takes the fun out of owning something nice.

who paints over good chrome? I guess that is kinda like lifting up ugly carpet and finding hardwood floors underneath. those look good on there.

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