Needs a total resto but a wealth of parts are included with the car, seems a little pricey to me but some one will likely buy it up i'm sure... Tom

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Now on my 15th/update/16th Zcar, Z's4vr....

Tom,
Looks like an '85 300ZX to me How about posting a photo or link?? Ross

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Also Known As Clayton Pace

Thanks AJ for the link, come on Ross you've got to do a little digging... Tom There's that darn 85 again too..

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Now on my 15th/update/16th Zcar, Z's4vr....

To have a 69 Z is priceless IMO. I hope some one hear grabs it. Now, he says it has the original 69 hood. In my best memories, that should have the raised center that is vented all around. Unless that was Japan only.

No vents on the American 1969 240Z hoods. But their inspection lids were different for awhile.

A certain number of the very early 1969 cars had inspection lids without lips on them (which later were added and fit under the closed hood). Those very early lids relied entirely upon the nylon clips to hold them down. Underhood air pressure soon overcame the holding strength of the clips, allowing the inspection lids to pop open at speed. The lip was soon added and that problem was solved.

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By the way ~ in terms of 1969 cars, we're talking about only a very small handful of individual units. The car was introduced in Oct69, with the first car sold on 22Oct69 (that was our member Jim Fredericks' car #00016). By the end of October only about 100 cars had been delivered from the factory.

By the end of Nov69, a total of only about 470 cars had been shipped out.

By the end of Dec (and the end of year 1969), a grand total of 587 cars had been shipped. The next-numbered car (#588) was shipped in Jan70.

Of those original 587 cars made in 1969, about 143 of them have been located and are known to exist today. This car (HLS30-00194) was a White car with Black interior, built in Nov69. In Jun01 it belonged to David Lavan of MIT.

The 1970 year saw monthly production growth increase, with over 900 cars delvered in Jan70. By Apr70 they had delivered more than 3,000 cars total (Oct69-Apr70). Each month of the 1970 production year, they released more cars than they had the previous month, but by Sep70 (the end of the 1970 production year), a grand total of only about 10,000 cars had been built and shipped.

The USA got about 7,000 of these 1969-70 LHD cars, with the rest going to other countries.

After 40 years, there are VERY few of them left. Finding an original survivor (like Clive's wonderful all-original Feb70 car #1905) is a rare gift indeed.

Frank

Thanks Frank for the kind words.

If you take a look at this pic:





You can see the early original hoods do not have reinforcement on the hood corners. I will try to save the hood on my car because they are original to the early cars. As far as a 69 car, I would love to have one also but the time is not right for me. #1905 may be the closes I will get to an all original early Z.

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

And I'm still hoping to coax it away from you!
Frank

Well if it does go up for sale, you and another person I know would like it before I post it for sale via other sites and Ebay. Honestly this is the reason nothing has been done to it yet.

Keep it or sell it......

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

Face it, Clive ~ EVERYBODY would want it. Our member Jim Frederick in Lutz, Florida would probably snatch it up in a heartbeat, and restore it like his other 30+ original early 1969-70 carz. You can look his name up on YouTube and see a brief walk-around in his Z Haven garage. He has many of the important early Z cars. I'll try to send you a link.

It would take me 5 years to properly restore #01901, and I'd have a tough time housing it in the space I have. But I'd DO it, simply because of how important I feel these carz are. It would be a money-pit (and I already own one of those ), but I consider the restoration of the very early Z carz to be more important than my own silly welfare.

You seem to me to be a pretty sober guy, but my fantasy is to someday get you drunk enough to trick you into selling me #1901, then running like the devil before you sober up. As time goes on, I suspect you're gonna realiZe what a gem you have there, and I'm afraid you're gonna get pretty tight-fisted about it. Then NONE of us will have a shot at the car!:lol:

Cheerz!
Frank