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These Aluminum Body Panels were introduced to the Public at the 2025 SEMA SHOW in Las Vegas. They were manufactured by Yahagi Industry Company located in Japan. The 240Z vehicle was in the Toyo Tire Booth at the Show. Front Head Light Bucket Front Hood Bottom Side of the Hood Right Front Fender Front Cowl Panel Front Aluminum Grille Right Front Fender Roof Right Rear Quarter Panel and Fuel Door Rea Hatch Pic Rear Panel left Rear Quarter Panel Flyer that describes Weigh Savings between Steel Panels and Aluminum Panels They would not give the price at the show but say it would be give out at the end of the year. I believe they are waiting till the Tokyo Auto Salon Show happening in Tokyo in January 2026. They were planning a production run of 100 of these Aluminum Panels. The well known Japanese Performance Company-Star Road is handling the sale of these 240Z panels. The panels have an excellent fit and well constructed. I would definitely recommend them.

11-25-2025. My new fender and hood came in from Resurrected Classics today. I quickly hung the fenders on and took some pics to show how well they fit. Very impressive. High quality parts. The box does say "Made in China", but they are VERY nice pieces. I also went ahead and got the front tires mounted on to the front wheels. The wheels are 16X8 with 0 offset, the tires are 205/55R16.

Well, once again we are at the end of track season. Long story short, the car is broken, but I'm excited for what next year brings! Longer version; After a successful outing at the Ridge, I decided to join my Canadian amigos for a weekend at Area27 up in Oliver BC, for a members track weekend, some wine tasting, and a general good time. The tow up was smooth, it took about 8 hours to get there. I've brought the car into Canada before, and it's reasonably painless, but I got searched pretty thoroughly (thanks Random Searches!) on the Canadian side. I dropped the car off at the track on Thursday night, and got squared away for a fun Saturday ripping around the track. We got there early on Saturday, I put the car together, fueled up and suited up to go out for the first session. First problem was the car felt like it wasn't pulling at all on the straights. Area27 is a properly long track, with some serious straights, so I should have been making some inroads there, but the car refused to pull hard at the top end. Second problem came as I started my second tour of the track. I shifted down to 2nd gear for a hairpin, then went for third, with nothing there. No box of rocks, no grinding, just no third gear. Alarming to say the least, but more frustrating as there wasn't an obvious cause of failure. I pulled off, looked under the car, saw all the linkages were in the right place, and had to call it a weekend. Any issue was clearly internal, and not fixable track side. Ended up with about 20 hours of towing for 10 minutes of sorta driving around the track. Womp-womp. Cut to getting home, getting the car unloaded, getting the transmission out of the car and opened up. It became pretty clear pretty quick what the problem was: Immediately upon pulling off the cover plate, the 3rd gear dog ring was nowhere to be seen. Well, that's not true, there was a piece of it over here! Well that's not supposed to be there! You can also see a big gouge in the main drive gear on the right side of that photo. Great, more parts to replace. That was it though. A dog ring shattered, ping'd off the MDS pinion and that was that. I suspect some of the gnarly downshifts I had at The Ridge the month prior were the cause of this, and when I towed up to Area27, this was most of the way destroyed. Shifting out of 3rd, into 2nd, and then finding 3rd to be MIA sounds like it was holding on by a thread, and just abandoned ship all at once. Parts are here, I'll probably take some time today or tomorrow to stuff the transmission back in. There are a few little things I'm working through, but nothing serious or major. Mostly cleaning and refreshing safety gear.