Eat your hart out!!! Fresh find and its MINE!!!!!

[Tim 76' 280Z]

Looks like a GREAT find man! Get her cleaned up, running, painted and you got a sweet ride!

[beebeecivic]

congrats on the find!!

[carguyinok]

Well I now have the old motor sitting on the ground along side the car . Tomorrow night I will be cleaning up the engine bay and getting ready for installing the new motor on Tue. I am not gona count on it!!! But, I maybe doing a few hot laps around our parking lot tue. night!!!!!! :rambo:

[carguyinok]

Here is the motor thats going in this one now.

<img src="http://www.classiczcars.com/photopost/data/500/medium/1469jul27_19.jpg" />

[=Enigma=]

Where's the closeup pics of the rust prone areas? Frame rails, battery tray area, dog legs, hatch tray, floor pans. You can't make a "rust free" post like this without showing those areas..........Just kidding with ya. Looks like a good find, especially at that price.

[Pleiner87]

Amazing find, Yep Creigslist supplied me with my Beautiful (but rusty... very rusty, and locked up L24) 1972 240Z as well. Good luck with it, I wish mine was that clean. Was it a 110 Red or 918 Orange Z? Once again AMA"Z"ING FIND! -Todd

[tibZ]

WOW!, A dream find. That car is a minimum 5K here in New England. A perfect project.

[carguyinok]

I was waiting for the motor to be out before getting those photos. I will be taking them later today. I just didnt have my good cam. with me at the shop when the motor came out.

I am not sure on the stock color on this car. I would have said Orange from under hood. But I noticed the hood was a take off. Then once you take a closer look you see red in the jams and on the floors and inner fenders. BUT, I have seen a spot on the firewall where some paint had come off and there was that baby crap green under the red. I am not sure anymore..... If this red is a repaint they did it with the car as a shell YEARS ago.

I would say open market here the car would be around 3-4K . Everyone that has come by the shop and looked it over has asked if I gave the guy a kiss after F***ing him that hard so.......

Edited February 23, 2009 by carguyinok

[DougN]

Congrats on the find! Now if you would be so kind as to use the photo upload feature instead of posting photobucket links, that would be great so that 1) I can see them at work and more importantly, 2) they are preserved with the thread for eternity, rather than disappearing when you reoganize your photobucket albums

BTW, Baby crap is not the lime green color, but the safari gold color found on Z's! What color is the spare tire well? Maybe that might help determine what the original color was?

[MikeW]

What color is the spare tire well? Maybe that might help determine what the original color was?

He already posted several photos of the spare tire well that show possibly #110 red. I'd look under the ash tray and up under the dash at the firewall to see the paint there.

[AZ-240z]

I noticed one of the rubber floor plugs in the rear deck floor has been painted over with the red. Pop that plug out and you may seen the original color around the edge of that drain hole.

Dan

[carguyinok]

OK, I think I have it guys. I am going with Green as stock color. Thank you on all the tips in looking for the color. I got the motor out and started cleaning away dirt when I found a rather large spot on the fire wall that looks as if it had a chem. spill on it and the paint was blistering. So after getting some of the red paint free I have found a coat of baby crap green AKA lime green as the base. As seen in the 1st photo. Plus I was lifting carpet and found the green on the transmission hump and yes also under the ashtray.

Sorry about the PB links. I am posting this next few with them aswell. But, later tonight I will load them into the site and use them from here out.

So far I can say that I have found 2 spots that are just getting at the paint for rust. No holes and nothing deep. One spot is on the Batt. tray with the other just under it. They are 2 blisters about the 3-4" across one above the other. The rest of the dark and brown color in the photos are dirt and grime.

Edited February 24, 2009 by carguyinok