Guten Tag Rick, thanks for your words, even those in german. Perfect.
Believe me, I would be glad if my english would be better but
its good enough to understand you all. Even though sometimes
I have difficulties to understand technical terms. But I learn!
Lately I floundered when I red important things about "dog legs".
What are dog legs? A dog? Legs? Do dog legs deal with a Z?
In the meantime Frank cleared me up. Thanks Frank!

Nice to hear that you have or had relationship in germany.
Saarbrücken, Dresden - good places. We live here at the bottom
of the black forest. It's lovely.
It would be great if you come to germany. You are ever and hearty
welcome and of course: lets talk about zzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Thorsten

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Im jahre 1867 kamt mein Grosse-Grosse-Grandfather nach Amerika aus Frankfort. Seine Eltern waren " Volga-Deutsch". Ich habe nur ein Jahr des Deutschen in der Hochschulle, aber ich erinnere mich an viel.

Franz

Frank, why "Franz"?
Thats your nickname?
Your roots from "Frankfurt" are interesting, long ago.
In this minutes we are celebrating the fall of the Berlin wall
all over this country.
Thorsten

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Welcome, and no spekan the duetch accept for Bier on my behalf. (if I spelled that all right.) I've been to Austria and Germany before and can understand the need to drive a Z there, that's all I could think of while there, and how to get to the brothel without my parents Knowing. (never happened) If you come this way, bring us some Motzarkugen's, (spelling) the chocolate round thing, they are the best thing in the world as far as candy goes. So you couldn't find a 240z there hey. ? Now wasn't the 240 for Europe equiped with a 5-speed and less the emmisions? Must be a hard find. Of course I didn't see a single Z car while I was there. Well, welcome again, and enjoy the ride, when you get it.

Hi Paul.
"Bier" thats right. Compliment! Yes its like a needle in a haystack here.
Z cars are very rare, the classic ones, not the actual 350 or 370 z. They are outsiders but people who are owning one are grinning the whole day and unsuspecting people are puzzling why? Indeed, I'm sure to come to CT and I will not forget these chocolate rouns things, which are called "Mozartkugeln". People say they have sthg to do with this great austrian composer. A whisper! We had some clasic z's here in germany, between them those 260s 2+2 with long wheel base. They are not so attractiv and also a needle ....
Glad to be here in your club!
Thanks again, Thorsten

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George Beck was born Feb. 19th 1831 in Bayern or Bavaria, Germany. His Father's name was Peter and his Mother was Barbara Beier. George and his wife left Bremen and traveled via river barge to Bremerhaven , where they board the German ship Dorette on Sept. 22, 1856.

George arrived in New York Harbor 22 Oct. 1856. He enlisted in the Union Army in August of 1861 and became a Naturalized American Citizen Oct. 5th, 1868.

I have always been very proud of him...
FWIW,
Carl B.

Well Carl, at least my relatives were smart enough to wait until AFTER the war was over to come here!

I'm trying to decipher what your saying Frank and all I get is your Grandfather came to America from Frankfurt in January 1867, and something about Deutschland???? Yea Thorsten those candies are in honor of Mozart and have his picture on them. I brought back a box from there, along with a case of beir. (20 years ago you could, I don't know about now.)

Very interesting to read all these things about your german roots. And, Carl, I was ever sure that your family must come from here, Beck is a typical german name, the last name of the current prime minister of Rheinland-Pfalz for example.
Paul, you can get these candies here incidentally in virtually every shop. What a paradise!
I would like to tell you whats the actual situation with the 240 z. Seems as if the forwarding agency will bring this fine car to Miami harbor on Saturday. And then it goes on a 21 day long trip across the ocean. It will arrive here on christmas. What an adventure and what a wonderful gift! Do you know a better one?
I'm raring to post pictures when it's here.
Thorsten

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Frohe Weihnachten! What a wonderful gift!

Jawohl, ist ein gut geschenke!

Dear experts, there is a question I've forgotten to ask you. We have unleaded petrol here in Deutschland like in the US. What do you put into the tank of a classic Z? Does the car need lead additives? Sorry
for this amateurish question, but I think this might be important to know. As I remember unleaded is no problem, isn't it?
Thanks a lot!

Thorsten

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Very good question, and I'm glad you asked it before your 240 arrived!

My very early 1970 240Z has the "E-31" high compression head. It began at 8.9:1 compression, and was milled to about 10:1 compression now. I use only high test benzine (94 or 97 octane) in my car. Anything less makes it run poorly and diesel after I turn it off.

The next cars (1971-72-73-74) had different heads on them with lower compression. When you get your car, look on the driver's right side of the engine. On the head, just behind the first spark plug, there will be a 3-digit code telling you which head you have. If it's an "E-31", use only hi-octane fuel. If it's anything else, you can probably use lower octane fuel, but I would not use anything less than 82 octane in any Z.

Some of this will be trial-and-error (experimenting). I don't know much about the octane levels in European fuels today. But if you only put 1 or 2 Liters of fuel into your Z, you can test it to determine how well it runs on each blend. Then you'll know what not to use.

There is no danger in putting the best gasoline into any Z, except it hurts your wallet!

I can hardly wait for you to get your car!

Frank

Frank, thanks.
we have 3 different petrol qualities here:
1. Super unleaded 95 ROZ (= octan)
2. Super plus unleaded 98 ROZ
and "V-Power" or "ultimate" 100 ROZ

thast means, I could use No 1 "Super", or?
Thorsten

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Yes, absolutely!

I think I want some of that!!!

We would call some of your gasoline, "racing fuel" here!