Last week I went to Florida for a week or so and gave Jim, owner of all the cars below a call to stop by and check out his garage. If you are ever in the Tampa area or within driving distance I would say it is worth the trip. Jim is a stand up guy and knows his Z stuff. Enough of me, time for some pics:

The man himself outside the garage:


Bone dry 1/70 car waiting its turn:


1970 FairLady:




HLS30-00058:


Floors!



HLS30-00016:



Vintage Z and HLS30-00042



Very clean Z - Burt Diamond if anyone knows who he is :flamedevi


Me with Burt's old flame:

Thinking about making an offer, it needs to come back to NY:


69 car too but forgot the vin, I do like this one:


Work bench:



Walls:



Left side of garage:













I forgot to take pics of car #19 and his turbo roadstr. Had a great time and will make a trip down again soon....maybe next years x-mas party!

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

EVILZ,

what a wonderful collection. I will fly over the ocean to see it personally as soon as I can!

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T. Link
Germany
1971 240z (HLS30-16506)

Clive,
Thanks for the pictures - I almost feel like I was there with you. What a fabulous garage and collection of Z's. Ross

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Ross Williams
1978 280Z Black Pearl Edition 38k Original Miles

Wie gehts, mein freund!

If you would like to make it THIS year and can get the time off, and make
flight arrangements on time, Kathy and I will be driving down for this
year's Christmas event of the Sun Coast Z Club, of which Jim and Carl
are members. We traded some of our timeshare points so we could
stay near Tampa.

The reason I said this is that we will have a 2-bedroom facility with
kitchen from late Friday afternoon 12/11/09 thru early Tuesday morning
12/15/09. You are welcome to stay with us at no cost while we are there
and of course we could provide ground transportation on those days
since we will have our car. No, you wouldn't have to ride on the cargo
deck of a 240-Z; we will be using the Honda this time!

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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)

Clive, I'm not sure I've ever seen a happier picture of you!

And I believe that green 240 road car with the triples was Paul Newman's personal car.

Frank

Great pictures, thanks for sharing Clive! Does Jim have a separate area in the garage to do the dirty work on his Z collection with a lift, etc?? Just curious....

Phil

Dirty work?

Only time these cars are dirty is tear down. No lift, which he knows he needs. You can eat off every car in that garage but three. The other 14ish are MINT.

Rick, thanks for the offer. I did hear you guys were driving down...you will have a great time.

Frank, if you knew Burt you would know why. I also owe you a pm.

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

That's why I asked the question, the shop looks immaculate and I wondered where the "real" work happened!

Everything but body work and paint happens right in there. I hope when other go down for the x mas party....someone will take a pic of #19...my fav!

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

I Think i just had a Z Gazum. Great pictures of an awsome collection,
thanks for sharing Clive...









1972 240-Z
2007 350-Z