OT: Garage find..., an unmolested Datsun 240Z, 23 years idle in garage |
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OT: Garage find..., an unmolested Datsun 240Z, 23 years idle in garage |
neo914-6 |
Mar 29 2009, 03:59 AM
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neo life Group: Members Posts: 5,086 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Willow Glen (San Jose) Member No.: 159 |
I'd love to buy it but not sure what it's worth or what to offer. All original paint, optional AC, very little rust that I could see, only one shallow crease in the rear quarter panel, door dings, cracked dash, tears in drivers seat, rusted exhaust, some worn door seals. Everything else is just dirty. It was only outside the garage for the past year.
How do you start cars like this? My guess would be to replace the fluids, filters, plugs, plugs wires, rotor, gas, carb fuel lines, good battery, hand crank it to see if it turns, prime the carbs, and try to start her up... Attached thumbnail(s) Attached image(s) |
charliew |
Apr 1 2009, 08:09 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,363 Joined: 31-July 07 From: Crawford, TX. Member No.: 7,958 |
I had been looking at new 77 z's and decided on a 77 toyota gt fastback as I got a new job as a service tech. at IBM and needed a work car that got good gas mileage. I had a new 76 3/4 ton 4x4 silverado with 4:10 gears and couldn't get by with that driving about 70k a year. I got a divorce and moved in with a fellow IBMer and he had a new 280z, one night he comes home after a trip to dallas and says, I got a ticket for 130 mph. I said bs and he shows it to me. I said you are screwed and he says maybe not I know a assistant da that I went to high school with I'll buy his lunch tomorrow. Sure enough the ticket disappeared. He said he was hauling ass home on 35 south and met a highway patrolman so he just let off and coasted to a stop and waited on him to come up behind him. The cop asked why he stopped and waited as he didn't think he would stop. My friend said he figured someone would be waiting ahead and he thought it would be better if he just took the ticket. Before the z he had a nova with a 327 in it that was pretty fast. The z car was his IBM work car.
Another friend has moved from z cars to type 3's and bugs to now old tractors. He has one complete z car and one for parts. The complete one is in a shed but looks rough at a glance. I think I have two sets of those su's somewhere in a 5 gallon plastic bucket with the lid on it, maybe two buckets. I get the buckets from a bbq place up the street, they make pretty good storage containers for cheap if you don't mind the sauce smell. |
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