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Fred, the finnish protections are made from alloy with rubber trims. They are not that expensive that it would make sense to develop a moulding for plastics. The big advantage of alloy is that you can twist. cut and bend it until it suits best. It wiil not burst and it can't rust. Concerning Zutopia I read your conversation . I don't know how much the german Z&ZX Club (Sean has got the adress) would be engaged. Personally I have two hearts beating in my brest: On the one side I mainly agree with Alan to make it a classic Z meeting mainly, on the other hand - depending on how far to drive for a meeting - I would prefer to go there with my more conveniant 300 ZX and I would not be interested to drive that on a race track, exept perhaps Nuerburgring. But I like the idea to meet as many of this "Classic Z club's european members as possible personally - and their Zs. In that case I would think about a long ride with my 240 Z, too. Did you think Rolf

Hallo Fred, but also Guus, Alan. Sean, Mike and all, I'm back from Portugal where I had some possibilities to look into these threads, but I couldn't answer. Fred , in one thread you and Sean discussed inner fender protections. Please look into the gallery for my pictures. I think it is the last pic on my 2nd page that shows the inner front fender protections that are available from a finnish producer. If you need more info let me know. Rolf

Fred, here in Germany we can only get unleaded fuel . I drive my 240Z and our 280 ZX for years now unleaded without problems, I only changed the ignition timing a little bit a n d I always use an additive whenever I fill unleaded gas at the station. No problems !!! Rolf

Tanny, motorsports auto (MSA) has it in it's catalog for 120$ Rolf

I cannot see it , too. I think it is still under Mike's revision and will come up soo. Mike is doing a great job. Let's see what he will do to the gallery. Perhaps he will introduce "There are xxx new pictures to the gallery since your last visit". You click and you will get them. Would be nice. Rolf

Fred, as far as I know it was a kit made by a company called Vestastec. I still have the ZX front spoiler - as on the picture below the "lightful" bumper - and a rear spoiler (both for sale, by the way) from that company. The car belongs to Mr. Thomas Theimer. Look at www.z-zx-club.de, Mitglieder, Postleitzahl 6, Theimer. I add another pic from that side. Vive la Rochelle Rolf

Fred, the car exists and it belongs to a member of the german Zand ZX club. It is white. I have a picture of the car and I hope I can add it here after scanning. Rolf

260Z, my contacts to Scandinavia are quite good as I work in the paper industry and many of our mills are owned by scandinavian companies, esp. finnish. Kipis ! Yes, both 240Zs belong to me, unfortunately one had a bad crash last year. Restoring that will be my next job. The 280ZX is my wife's car and the 300ZX is my long distance vehicle. For about 25 years I 'm with Datsun/Nissan sports cars. By the way, I was the first who drove in Norway with a little Honda S 800 Coupe at a rallye around Vos and than at the horse race track in Bergen about 30 years ago. Good old days ! Rolf

260Z, you belong to Europe and you voted right. I think instead of "Europe"in the poll should be "Central Europe". I sometimes have problems with Norway because the population there voted against the EU, at least as long as they make money with oil and gas. Let's see what they think when these ressources are gone. I have to work with some of them and I always nickname them our "northwest asean observers". Rolf

hey 260Z, where did you vote. For Scan I see Zero. Guus, Fred Caen, Portugal, Alan,Germanz where are you ? We have to add UK , Scan and (other) Europe later. Rolf

Great ! Cant you or someone else of us develop something like an interactive box of bricks where we can design our dream car in colour, with different front and rear aerodynamic sets, different rims and so on? Would be nice to compare the results. Rolf

V( 240Z, thank you for the good idea. I will try that. Rolf

Saint, don't mind. You are welcome here and I like Kiwis. Let's see how the Americans will beat the rest of our Z world. 98% to 2% in case all members answer ? Good idea to start the poll. but wouldn't Mike have the correct and final figures by country anywhere in his database, at least for the members ? Rolf