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For sale here is what has come to be known by my friends as ‘the mad max datsun’
s. Where to start............
imported from the usa at the end of last year, customs cleared with all paperwork and title and nova so ready to register as a historic vehicle. Which will be tax and mot exempt due to age.
as you can see it’s a very distinctive car with the super wide body. I cannot find another one anywhere with this body but believe it was built as an imsa race car in the 80’s/ 90's. We are unsure if it was raced, but the modifications would suggest it did. More recently it was used as a road car stateside, and was cruising the streets of st louis missouri for the last few years.
the last owner distressed the bodywork to make it the ultimate rat-sun drift car. I have found some photos on online forums from a few years ago in the states.
so the car itself is a holy-grail 1971 240z, s30 coupe body and not to be confused with the later 260 and 280s
2. 4l straight six, with manual 4 speed gearbox.
its pretty heavily modified but does retain the 2. 4l in line 6 running on twin sus. The engine number would suggest it is the original engine.
having not met the builder i don’t know what internals it has but would guess not standard. It sounds superb and revs very freely. It has performance headers with straight though 3” s/ s exhaust, a large ally rad, msd ignition, oil and water pre heaters etc etc.
the body is very wide. Its mainly fibreglass/ kevlar and the whole front end you can pick up with 2 hands, its extremely lightweight. Its all removable on d-zus fasteners so full on race car.
the wheels are from a nascar and run 0 offset so look brilliant. Its got discs up front with braided lines throughout and sits on koni adjustable coil over shocks all round. These are the insert type no the cut and weld it jobs that seems a bit sketchy to me. Camber plates all round too.
inside its no frills. Full nascar style cage with heavy duty reinforcements. The cage extends forward and rearwards to the strut tops the pair of kirky lightweight seats and harnesses are surprisingly comfy and are bolted directly to the cage.
custom pedal box with individual front and rear reservoirs and no servo, and has brake bias bar. Removable steering wheel as would be impossible to get in without it ( and i’m quite slim!)
hydro hand brake, which probably explains the damage to the rear end! Will get onto that later....
the dash is mental, but i love it. You’ve go a gauge for every conceivable piece of info you could wish for, loads of toggle switches for fans, fuel pumps, heater etc etc, and push button start/
in the rear its wheel well has been cut out and replaced with a proper fuel cell. An edelbrock 12v pump mounted at the back fuels the twin carbs.
s. When i got the car it had some damage to the rear. I think the last owner had been re-enacting fast and furious tokyo-drift and ripped the hydro a bit to hard and hit something quite solid.
we have reshaped the rear quarte quite successfully with a body dozer but there is still some work to do. The fender flair i managed to salvage and although damaged if you are handy with fibreglass its quite an easy fix.
the rear suspension was tweaked so a full replacement suspension unit has been fitted to the rhs rear. It now drives straight and true. The door shut is creased but i have sourced a replacement panel and sill section which needs welding in, but will come with the car.
rus. Wise she's pretty good. There is the odd bit here and there but nothing horrendous, especially for a 240. i know these cars well and it hasn’t gone in all the usual places.
so in sumamry she starts runs and drives, and sounds amazing. This is a rare opportunity to restore a very distinctive 240z. This car would cost a small fortune to build to this spec. Ands what's it worth done?? just looks at the others for sale. You don't get much change out of 35-40k these days!
whys it for sale??. i could restore it myself but i’m flat out with other projects. With a car as individual as this, i would rather let the new owner restore it as they wish and to their own taste.
happy to send more pics, videos etc on request, just as 07900 99 79 69
