Hi Mark!
Welcome to the club. As an original owner of a '71 240Z in Silver I can only offer my "unprofessional" opinion on this but if you are restoring the car to original or near original specs, then I would say keeping to the original paint scheme could help with the cars ultimate resale value. It is especially true if you have a numbers matching car (engine and body). If you plan to "resto mod" the car, then I would say "anything goes".
I am still getting over the fact that an unmolested '71 Z with only 22K miles that I personally checked out recently sold on BAT for $310K
Of course this was a pristine "out of the box" example of a bone stock 240Z. It seems that the early Z cars that are kept close to stock condition are getting the most money. Are you planning on painting your car yourself? If not, we know an expert painter in the area that has painted a number of our club members cars including mine back in 2002. Here is a recent picture.
Good luck on your project!
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