1972 Datsun 240Z SOLD

RHD Datsun 240Z For Sale
Chassis No. – HS30-019**
Date of first UK registration - 01-01-1972.
Colour – Metallic Silver.
Mileage – 78, 000.

The vehicle was originally purchased in the UK before being exported to Botswana (papers are available) in early 1972 by the original owner who was serving in the RAF in the UK and upon learning that he was to be posted overseas he took the vehicle with him to Botswana. The first owner used the vehicle in regulation road rallies across Zimbabwe in his 14 years of ownership upon which time he sold the vehicle to the second owner who was an Englishman expatriated in Botswana working as the Workshop Manager in the Francistown Nissan dealership.

The vehicle was exported to South Africa in 1986 where it was registered with the Classic Z Register in 1990, in that same year the car suffered hail damage and a light restoration to repair the body damage was undertaken which took until late 1994 to complete and the engine was rebuilt at the same time. The vehicle was re-finished in a Nissan South Africa market-specific colour, Silver Jade metallic at the time of restoration.

The vehicle returned to the UK with its second owner in 2006 and was passed-on to Duncan Pearcy of the Z Farm in 2010. The vehicle found its third owner via auction at the Silverstone Auctions sale in 2010.

The vehicle has had only four owners in total from new, I acquired the vehicle in 2012 and I have owned the car for the past seven years.

As the vehicle was located in various hot & dry counties for the first 34 years of its life the vehicle has benefitted from a structural standpoint and is very solid with no signs of structural welding at all. There are signs of blistering on the rear arches, the bottoms of front corners of the doors and on the front wings. These areas that will require attention to complete the vehicle to the standard I would have liked if I was keeping the vehicle.

In my time as the current owner, the vehicle now carries numerous modifications mechanically:

• GAZ Coil Over conversion by Fourways Engineering.
• Fully-Floating Wilwood Front Brakes – Radially mounted Six Pot Calipers with 310mm x 32mm curved vane ventilated discs mounted to 7075-T6 Aluminum Hubs, Bells, Grease Covers & radial mount Caliper Brackets.
• Front & rear Nismo Long Wheel Stud Upgrade with lightweight 7075-T6 Wheel Nuts.
• 1” Wilwood Brake Master Cylinder upgrade.
• All Brake lines replaced fully using Goodridge -3 Stainless Steel hose & Stainless Steel fittings throughout.
• Techno Toy Tuning GTX2 Front Lower Control Arms and Tension Rods.
• Rose jointed Steering Arms.
• Techno Toy Tuning acetal Steering Rack Bushes.
• Front & Rear uprated Anti-Roll Bars - Front 1" Dia. / Rear bar 7/ 8" Dia. with PowerFlex Urethane Bushings.
• Techno Toy Tuning Rear Lower Control Arms.
• Whitehead Performance Billet 300M Extreme Duty Racing Stub Axles – 39 Spline.
• WHP Billet 4340 Porsche 930 Style CV Axle Adapters / Companion Flanges – 39 Spline.
• Wolf Creek Racing CV Half Shaft Axle Conversion (Porsche style CV Joints).
• New Wheel Bearings Front & Rear.
• R200 Long Nose differential conversion – 3. 9:1 ratio
• Quaife ATB differential with all new bearings, seals & gaskets, built into R200 housing by Quaife.
• Techno Toy Tuning Moustache Bar – hard-anodized black.
• Fully-Floating rear Disc Brake conversion – Wilwood radially mounted hydraulic / mechanical sliding Calipers with 300mm x 22mm straight vane ventilated discs mated to 7075-T6 Aluminum Bells & radial mount Caliper Brackets.
• Rota RKR 15x8 ET0 Wheels in Black.
• Yokohama Neova 205/ 50/ 15 Tyres.
• Original 2400cc engine.
• Ported Cylinder Head.
• Lightened & balanced rotating assembly.
• New Oil Pump.
• Weber Heritage Triple 45 DCOE Kit with K&N Filters.
• Facet Red Top Fuel Pump and Filter King Filter/ Regulator.
• Full ZStory Stainless Steel Exhaust system – 6-2-1 Race Header with twin-box Classic system fitted.
• Lumenition Optronic Ignition.
• Rebuilt original 5-Speed Gearbox.
• New Starter Motor.
• New Engine Mounts.
• New Battery.
• Headlight Relay upgrade & Harness.
• Engine calibration carried out by AT Speed – 157bhp dyno sheet.
• Original Interior fitted.
• No sunroof.
• Perforated Leather Nardi Deep Corn Steering Wheel.
• Tax Exempt Historic Vehicle
• MOT Exempt Historic Vehicle.

Additional upgraded spare parts are available by separate price negotiation:

• A complete low mileage RB25DE Neo Engine – stripped for inspection.
• Two standard RB30 S2 complete engines.