RE: Spotted: Datsun 240Z

[Terror Factor]

Those cars are gorgeous! I'm not sure when I started noticing them, but it might be when I started viewing 'Wangan Midnight' (Japanese anime, bit like Initial D, although I liked Initial D alot better).

They are quite rare tho', and getting rather expensive. There's a lot more choice/availability in the States, AFAIK.

[simonrockman]

I don't think they are at all Mustang to drive, they have a lot more poise and less grunt. They feel more E-type.

Simon

[jason61c]

scholesy said:

Jeez back in about 2007 you could pick a cracking one of these up for £2-3k, I don't know where that extra 1 at the front suddenly sprouted from in the last 5 years, I would like to own one but for that price I can think of more desirable metal really!

You couldn't buy a good one for that price 5 years ago, maybe one hiding its filler.

What other classic for the same cash would you get?

[ukmike2000]

Plastic interior, heavy lump of an engine, crude suspension, very basic mechanicals - just about perfect in fact! From the days when cars had testicles. Looks a lovely car and has set off the "want glands"

[macdeb]

Beautiful car They just don't make 'em like that anymore.

[handbraketurn]

Very handsome.

[spiritof'76]

Went to view this some years back at Dan Perkins Nissan at Waltham Cross......... wanted it badly but was £30k at the time If i could have raised the cash i would have had it

[Cable]

Beautiful cars; I wish I had picked one up a few years ago now...

Would prefer one more in the Japanese style of tune like below, but to each their own

[tommy vercetti]

Philbar said:

Spotted this at Donington taking part in the Masters Historic Racing Championship Finals back in October...

I like that

[so called]

I posted a thread a few weeks ago of a car I spotted in Portland in the US. I wasnt sure what it was and there was some disagreement as to what it was.
Very nice all the same.
Sorry about the link but my photo uplod doesnt want to work.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[nismo48]

I thought that too..
They have never been that cheap..
£2-3k

jason61c said:

scholesy said:

Jeez back in about 2007 you could pick a cracking one of these up for £2-3k, I don't know where that extra 1 at the front suddenly sprouted from in the last 5 years, I would like to own one but for that price I can think of more desirable metal really!

You couldn't buy a good one for that price 5 years ago, maybe one hiding its filler.

What other classic for the same cash would you get?

[Tinykin]

simonrockman said:

I don't think they are at all Mustang to drive, they have a lot more poise and less grunt. They feel more E-type.

Simon

Exactly. First time I have heard of the Mustang analogy. I remember it as more based on a Healey and was more a competitor to Porche at the time.
At the time Datsun still had quite a bit of Austin DNA outlook in its cars.

[exocet ape]

love it!

[richiep]

StottyZr said:

This pulled into my local petrol station a while back. It stopped us in our tracks and we just stared (and took a photo)



Beautiful

That car's nickname is Growler - well known in the Z Club, owned by a guy called Mike in West Yorkshire. The black and gold does indeed work great as others have commented.

For those who said they'd prefer a more Japanese treatment to the slightly Americanized look of the car for sale, here's my Z - a genuine Japanese market '71 Nissan Fairlady Z-L:







There's actually a recent photo of it on the road (driving through Alderley Edge) in the Northwest region forum Spotted thread.

[tommy vercetti]

exocet ape said:

love it!

[infradig]

There are some great looking 240z's in this thread,just a pity the subject matter isn't one of them. Candy apple paint,slot mags and oversize white letter tyres,all remind me of the people who used to own them in the late 70's early 80's. Wannabe Corvette drivers,that had graduated from mk1 Capris but couldn't afford a mk3.
Which brings me to the linked ad for that 3000e,I wonder how that missed out on the candy paint,fur seats and hideous slot mags period of its life,I once scrapped a pretty solid 3.0GXL just for its headlights so I'm as responsible as anyone for the shortage and hence value of survivors.if I had the space( and a spare ten grand) I'd rather invest in that than a customised Datsun,although the 240z I drove 30 years ago was a much tighter drive than any Capri I've ever driven.

[Fantuzzi]

Seeing my uncles on Sunday, bought it a few weeks ago, after selling it a few years ago and regretting it.

Awsome car.

[StescoG66]

richiep said:

There's actually a recent photo of it on the road (driving through Alderley Edge) in the Northwest region forum Spotted thread.

That is simply gorgeous. The basic shape is just so right, so fluid. And red is the colour without a doubt - although the blue one photographed in the showroom as lush too.
Now as a contrast, compare that to the downright aggression, brashness and vulgarity displayed by the German brands currently.

[Dr Banjo]

StescoG66 said:

That is simply gorgeous. The basic shape is just so right, so fluid. And red is the colour without a doubt - although the blue one photographed in the showroom as lush too.

Cannot argue with that.

[MadDog1962]

As others have said already. These are simply gorgeous cars. Quite well made and easy to look after. Quite possibly the best classic Jap car from the 70s.