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Arne

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  • Birthday 01/09/1957

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  1. Actually, I posted the results here, too. See this thread, more pictures than I posted on my website. http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=133714
  2. Yeah. I talked to several people who wanted to patch the hole before I talked to Scott. When he explained the way he did it, it was so obviously the correct way to do it that I knew immediately that I would have him do it. This is the only way that makes sense. Now that the paint is complete, the roof looks great. As expected, you'd never know that a sunroof ever existed there.
  3. I plan to be there, even if the car isn't ready that soon. But it looks like I'll have it back in time to get it at least partially assembled.
  4. E-mail notices of replies rock! I can get here and see it before it gets deleted!! That was my hope. My reading here was helpful as I prepared for the job.
  5. Edit: Someone posted asking about the future color of the car, but that post disappeared after my reply was posted. I'm pretty much a factory kind of Z owner, but visit here for research, and ideas for a possible future project. So this Z will be repainted in factory 905 red. I've been documenting the exterior refresh over on CZCC http://classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30588
  6. Finally got the pictures from the shop. First, the donor...
  7. Hi, guys. I don't post much here, but do visit for research now and again. I'm much more active on CZCC.com since my Z is mostly stock. But I thought I'd share this here as well, since I did some reading here on this subject prior to having this done. I just got my '71 back yesterday after having the roof reskinned to eliminate the sunroof. Here are some before and after pictures. I don't have pictures of the process itself just yet, we couldn't get his camera to download to my laptop (bad USB cable, I think), so I'll have to wait for him to e-mail them to me before I can post them. Soon, I hope. The guidecoat on the primer makes the roof look a bit wavy in the pictures. Trust me, it's not. The work was done at Evolution Auto Body, a one-man shop (Scott Daniels) in Salem, OR, basically next door to ZTherapy. I don't know how many S30 roofs he has re-skinned, but I do know that mine was not his first, probably more like his fifth or sixth. I could tell the first time we talked that he knew exactly what he was doing. And he is incredibly affordable. I supplied the donor roof, and the total was all of $450! He invoiced me 14 hours at $30/hr. That included a couple hours to do a touch of rust repair under the windshield seal on the donor roof. I dropped the car off Monday afternoon, and picked it up late Friday, so four days. I can't recommend him enough for this type of work. The job was fairly straightforward. Drill out all the spot welds on the donor panel to remove it intact, cut the bad roof off the car and grind down (not drill) the spot welds on the car, and re-weld the new panel into place. I'm certain that any competent sheet metal guy could do it, but I'm glad I picked one who has done it on these cars before. Scott also cleaned and applied a nice glossy epoxy to the underside before he welded it on as part of the job. Perhaps it's not a stiffener, but it sure seems like it might be. On the trip back home (60 miles) the car seemed much quieter, even without any headliner. Now that the car is back home, I'm going to strip it the rest of the way down and deliver it to my local paint shop week after next. I would have let Scott do the whole re-paint, but he said he is so busy that he's not taking in any full repaints right now. But he said squeezing in a roof skin job was no problem. So I'll have the rest of the paint done locally.
  8. Go West, young man... There are still relatively rust-free 240Zs on the west coast, not just California, but Oregon and Washington too. (No road salt out here.) And even the ones we call 'rusty' here are way better than the average Z from the mid-west or East of the Mississippi.
  9. Everyone other than the US and Canada. It would be more accurate to call the two styles "USA" (or maybe North American) and "Rest-of-the-world" rather than Euro or JDM.
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