Greetings All

[TimNC]

Hello everyone. My name is Tim and I'm in Shelby, North Carolina. I've owned many Z cars over the years, and my current project is a 1973 240Z. I was doing online research on the carbs when I stumbled upon this site.

I got the cars from a friend of mine who had them stored in a garage for many years. I say "cars" because one is a parts car. This is how they looked before I took them.

The green one is the running one. The yellow one is the parts car. I have the engine for the parts car, even though it's currently removed.

The green one has round top carbs on it, but I still have the original flat tops that it came with. My friend had put some headers on it and a 2 1/2" pipe on the exhaust before he stopped driving it.

As I said earlier I have had many Z cars over the years. My first was a 1977 280Z. After that I had a 1984 300ZX Turbo anniversary edition, a 1990 300ZX coupe and a 1990 300 ZX 2+2. My father worked at a local Nissan dealership as the parts department manager while I was growing up and I loved Z cars more than anything else on the road. Dad was like a living reference manual on these cars, and what he didn't know he had books on. My 77 280Z needed the entire fuel injection system rewired, and he had the official Nissan "School" books on it. Aparently Nissan had a mobile school for the mechanics where they would come to a dealership and teach about the specifics of each model.

Anyway, last year my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I was looking for a project that he and I could work on together while he went through treatment, and my friend with the 240's was selling his house and the cars needed to see the light of day again, so I had a rollback deliver them to my house and now they're mine :classic:

Dad and I did all the normal stuff to a car that had been sitting for years and eventually we got it to crank. My dad new many of the part numbers by heart which was amazing to me.

The brake fluid had somehow become like a thin jelly and we had to push it out of the lines. Here's a picture of me and my dad working on it. He's working on the brakes, I'm sitting in the drivers seat.

Unfortunately my father died last November. He was 60 yers old.

I still have the car and plan on fulling restoring it, so expect to see a lot of questions from me.

[=Enigma=]

Welcome back to the world of Z cars and the forum. I'm very sorry to hear about your father. My condolences to you and your family.

[zbane]

Welcome to the site from another North Carolinian!

You honor your father and his memory as you work on your Z car(s), and I think it wonderful that you are going ahead with the work. While it is truly unfortunate that your father is not alive to help you with the project, he is with you through the knowledge he shared with you over the years.

Take your time on the site, there is more information here than you could imagine.

[xray]

Welcome! Sorry to hear about your father...he has to be one of the youngest looking 60-year olds I've seen!

http://www.carolinazclub.org/

That's the website of the Z club based out of Charlotte...When you get a chance you may want to hook up with those folks. From their site I can tell they have an active fun bunch of Z enthusiasts!

We're glad you're here,

Steve

[e_racer1999]

Welcome to the site from another North Carolinian!

You honor your father and his memory as you work on your Z car(s), and I think it wonderful that you are going ahead with the work. While it is truly unfortunate that your father is not alive to help you with the project, he is with you through the knowledge he shared with you over the years.

Take your time on the site, there is more information here than you could imagine.

welcome! and david said it as well as i could, your father is helping you with all of the knowledge that he has given you.