Clive I Gotta tell you that your Efforts and achievments Really are present on this car, I can remember when you started this project and has been fun to follow you with it. your a true engineer. I hope you never stop and keep finding these banged up Z's and restoring them the way you do. They really come out Hot looking.. Z Ya soon..

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Bob Sharp Racing History Memorabillia Chairman / VP of Marketing
RDZ MOTORSPORTS / CONSULTANT
RDZ MOTORSPORTS PROTOTYPE
Black 2007 350-Z
67 Camaro Custom
Orange Late 71 240-Z Sold and sitting in a Doctors Collection

Colin Foote Never Forgotten!!

It was really painful when I crossed over the originality bridge. After that first, painful, irreversible, change was made with a drill, it has been nothing but pure joy.

Some Z's need to stay original, NO DOUBT. But thankfully Nissan made extras for us to use as parts cars, and for projects that reach outside the box.

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-Dave
76Z Turbo'd
72 In Progress---DONE!

Rick, one day I will have a stock car....hmmm I am thinking 907 green!

Scott, thanks for the kind words! I am telling you that I now ENJOY building the car even though I really like driving it. But being able to know feel comfortable enough to want to make something better and not just leave it as it is feels great.

Here is my dash now and I will be installing leds in my autometer gauges. After pics will be posted.





A mess!

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Clive Bogle President - New York Z Car Club - NYZCC.COM
1971 240Z - LS1/T56
1974 260Z-L30
1976 Fairlady Z

Clive, my man, if you are thinking about a bone stock original Series 1
in Code 907 Racing Green, I hope you don't have VIN #171 in mind,
or you will have to deal with a tough little Irishman named Kathleen!
That is her favorite car among all of them, being only 28700 miles.

I love you, brother, but not enough to part with the 171 car, much
less bust up my marriage, which is what I fear might happen if...........

All Z Best,...................................Kathy & Rick

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All Z Best,.......Kathy & Rick

1969 Z.CAR (#00013 10/69) 8/30/76
1969 ITSA.Z (#00171 11/69) 8/24/73
1970 OLD.Z (#06289 6/70) original owner
1971 510 2dr since 12/31/75
1969 1600 rdstr (our 160-Z)
1971 (#19851 1/71) sold
1975 75.Z (#01343 1/75)

Kathy and I will have to sit and have a talk

A mess!

So cleaning it all up:

Before


During



Finish product


Finished installing the PW with Joe in the doors and just need to be wired up to some power, ground and switches.

Doors off to be drilled to run wires:


New mess to clean up old mess:


Joe bored taking pics of me:

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Clive Bogle President - New York Z Car Club - NYZCC.COM
1971 240Z - LS1/T56
1974 260Z-L30
1976 Fairlady Z

Nice turn signal/Ebrake solution there, Clive. I'm still trying to figure out where mine are going to go, though I fear my solution will have to be different than yours...

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-Chris

Funny the red led is for my high beams....a little car color matching.= going on Did you change all your gauges too?

Here is the center console pretty much done.

Power Window switches:

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Clive Bogle President - New York Z Car Club - NYZCC.COM
1971 240Z - LS1/T56
1974 260Z-L30
1976 Fairlady Z

Heh heh... not quite yet... they're in the mail. I don't have to worry about turn signals and high beam, they're integrated and I just have to figure out how to wire them in. However, I have no provision for the Ebrake light so I'll have to come up with something.

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-Chris

Well the dash went in....and back out.....and back in!

First try, everything worked besides the highbeam led. I hooked it up to the light source by mistake so to fix it the dash had to come back out. Hour later dash is back in and 90% of the wires tucked away and hooked up. I just need to hook up two more wires for the power windows and they are done. All three leds work, yay! Had both doors apart a few days ago and now they are all done. Next is hooking up the blower motor, installing the heater control panel, installing a radio and finishing up the interior.

I also want to reroute the heater hoses because they are ugly right now. I have to make a fuel pump bracket for saftey. I also need to fix my coilover problem......my front collars are trashed. Ground Control asked me to send them pics before they would even let me order. They really seem interested in trying to get this issue fixed.

Center Console:


No window crank: sun fade I need to fix on NOS panels


Almost done:


Issue:



I ordered new collars and will look into cutting them down so I don't get the same result. Even though it looks horrible....this doesn't affect the car handling at all.

New rear spoiler should be here later this week and I am still on the fence about fender mirrors or not.

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Clive Bogle President - New York Z Car Club - NYZCC.COM
1971 240Z - LS1/T56
1974 260Z-L30
1976 Fairlady Z

Holy crap, your inner area of the spring rubbed bad enough to do THAT??!

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-Chris