I"m writing this for my buddy mike do to the fact that he would rather be a lurker than help contribute:-D
Well my buddy Mike picked up this car about 3 months ago as a little project, His goals are to make a daily driver that would see some track use. At first he was looking at picking up a 510, but decided on a 1973 240z.
He found a z that was sitting in someone's back yard as a project that never got started, the car was pretty much a pile of junk, the interior was trashed and stuffed full of parts. So the first thing that needed to be done was clean the car out and to start stripping the car.
Next was the body work, luckily the car wasn't in that bad of shape. It had your normal rust that you would find on a Z of this age, but nothing to major. So we loaded it up on a trailer and took it over to a friends house. Once there we started working on the body panels getting rid of the rust and shaving a few things here and there. Once the body was looking good we shot it with a coat of por-15 and called it a day.
From my buddies house the car made it to my garage, and thats where we started to tackle the suspension. First thing we did was tear out the front suspension and start to rebuild that. Luckily for Mike and Me we have a full machine shop at our disposal at work, so anything that is going to be reused has been media blasted and painted. Not really much else to say so i'll let the photos speak for them selves.