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Hi every one, My name is Guus van der Bol and I live in Holland where the tulips grow.Hi every one, My name is Guus van der Bol and I live in Holland where the tulips grow. I’m 48 years old and my job is driving passenger trains through the country. I’ve a lovely wife no kids, 5 dogs, 2 horses, a cat and a bunch of canaries. My first Nissan, a 280ZX, I bought in ’83 and kept it until 3 years ago. In the mean time I bought -the real car- a ’70 240Z from an American who worked in Great Britain. I overhauled the Z totally as you can see at my personal photo gallery and now the car is a look a like Monte Carlo works rally car. I’m in the Z ‘business’ from ’85, started in Holland the Z & ZX club, which has now 320 members. Well this is my story. Greetings from the other side. Guus

Hi guys, I like to attach a picture of a look a like paint code sticker. It’s from an original brochure. There’s not much to see but it’s a sticker at the place which you all spoke about. Regards, Guus Z-point

Rodd, Mike, Here is an interesting link to an article about the two Z cars. Rodd did you know about this? http://www.zdriver.com/articles/full_article.php?ID=84 I think I have to be friendlier next time to Mr Katayama maybe he will invite me one time. Guus

Hi Rodd, Is your name Westwood? In that case long time no see :-)) We spoke way back in '98 about modelkits of the no.5, remember? I knew about the cars are kept in a museum but did not know where. You brought me in a good direction, Nismo! I do have a Japanese magazine with awesome pictures of the two cars but as I can not read Japanese I did not know if it was an ‘old’ story or what. Now I know they are alive, yes!!! When I got my scanner back (broke up) I will send you the picture of the magazine. About the film you mentioned I do have some video about the safari but I have to dig in my stuff. I will come back to you a.s.a.p. Regards, Guus van der Bol Z-point Holland

It started in the early seventies. All the cars that participate in rallies had that color scheme, the Volvo’s, the Fiat’s, Porsches, BMW’s Datsun’s, Peugeots. The whole bunch, they all believed in it! This color scheme was modern at that time because it reduced the sun reflecting in the bonnet. That rallies mostly where driven in the Mediterranean countries like Spain, Italy, Greece, the Middle of Africa, and Portugal. They were a head of the world rally championship http://www.worldrallychampionship.net/ that is going on right now. If you visit this link a lot will be clear how ‘we’ did it in those rallies! Here are some nice links. I copied the pics from the Kyosho program. And as you could see, the rally cars and the Z432 from Datsun are equipped with a black bonnet. regards, Guus Z-point

I’m not quite sure about that statement . Go to the next links to find out its possible to rally with an old Z and by victorious as well http://www.lightman.co.uk/mjp/rally.html Check out Rick Hintz's Z-TEAM at http://zhome.com/Racing/RALLY/Hintz.htm A Z car has already a natural height from its self, you could see this as an advantage, that’s why it outraced the Porsches and the Ford Escorts in the safari rally’s in south Africa. They went flat out thought the deserts, bushes etc. Guus Z-point

Hi all, Yep mike, I am considering also to do historic rallying in Europe as well. I even adjust the colors of my Z car to it. It now has the looks of a Monte Carlo ’72 Z car. I will tell you the whole story later. regards, Guus vd Bol Z-point