Here is #110

[HS30-H]

Alan - are you cheering about your 52 birthday? Hope it was a good one.

Sailor Bob,

I'm not cheering about anything this morning, as I have too much of a hangover....... :stupid:

Whilst I might feel like a 52 year old after all that alcohol, it was in fact my 46th birthday yesterday. Did have a good one, thanks!

[Mr Camouflage]

260z's were only made in 74.

Oh no they weren't....

and if you spend a bit of time reading this forum you will find out they were made right up to 1978. The USA isn't the only country in the world you know.

[Earthcruiser]

Very nice base to start from. Congrats on the purchase.

[sblake01]

Oh no they weren't....

and if you spend a bit of time reading this forum you will find out they were made right up to 1978. The USA isn't the only country in the world you know.

That is true but I doubt that the engine came from a '76 260z' since he's in the US. More that likely, the person that told him that was somewhat uninformed in the area of Datsunology(!).

[BRE-240Z]

I took Lonny's statement to mean that the car was wrecked in 1976.

[sblake01]

I guess so but that wouldn't be much of a selling point considering that's 32 years ago.

[Mr Camouflage]

That is true but I doubt that the engine came from a '76 260z' since he's in the US. More that likely, the person that told him that was somewhat uninformed in the area of Datsunology(!).

I wasn't commenting on that. I saw the new members post about 260z only being made in 74, and thought here we go again, same old mis-information getting repeated over and over. Maybe I should take a chill pill and not respond to those types of posts anymore. More accurate to say the 260z was only sold in the USA for a limited time (was it 74 and 75?). Other counties had the 260z much later instead of the 280z, but now I'm going off topic and repeating info that's readily available on this site for people willing to look for it.

Good luck with the resto Bonzi Lon.

I think the statement means its was a recently wrecked 260z and the persons Datsunology knowledge was slightly off. I'd also hazard a guess that the 20,000 miles on the clock had been once around the clock and was actually 120,000 miles.

[Bonzi Lon]

Let me see if I can clear this up a little bit. Robert is the original owner (1970-1976), Gregg is the second owner (1976-2008), I am the third owner, 8-2008.

Something happened to the original engine in early 1976, Gregg nor I know what. Robert purchased a block and head in 1976 from a wrecked 1974 260Z (paperwork) that was claimed to have about 20K miles, and transplanted it into the car, but only after Robert had everything painted black, (paperwork), all of this was done in early 1976.

Gregg purchased the car in late 1976 and drove it for about 2 years. In 1978 Gregg then put it in his garage to do rust repair but never got around to it and it just sat there untill Gregg advertised it for sale in August of 2008, when I made the purchase. It had collected dust for 30 years, never driven. The transplanted 260Z engine was not a selling point, but Gregg wanted me to know that it was NOT the original engine, which I did understand.

I hope this makes it a little clearer.

Bonzi Lon

[sblake01]

Thank you for that, Lonny! I was about to answer Craig's post. I will say to him that over here we only had the 260Z in 74. I'll just add that there was a early(74) and a late(74.5) big bumper version.

[blue 72]

Congrats on the find. I hope it gets the full restoration it deserves.

I'm curious as to the paint code for that blue. Any chance the sticker is still legible on the radiator support?

[26th-Z]

That would be # 903 blue http://zhome.com/History/ZColorGallary/index.html

My take on why the original engine was replaced so quickly in a six year old car has to do with the lower numbered L24 engines. Mine are L24-2162 and L24-2338. 2796 seems high for VIN 110, doesn't it? Technical Bulliten TS70-15, dated 4.3.70, calls for a change in bolt length for the cylinder head begining with L24-4257. Then, TS70-28, dated 8.21.70, calls for a replacement crankshaft with eight counter weights instead of six begining with L24-3607. My engines have the reinforced oil pan which was a result of the crankshaft vibration issue and the three different sizes of head bolts. It may very well be that L24-2796 succumbed to the difficiencies, ie. crank or rob bearing - blown head gasket / warped head.