Finally got one. 1971 240z. Body is very straight, no rust.
Picked it up off a guy in the bay area who really needed to get rid of it. At the time when I looked at it it started and ran fine, tranny was not shifting too well, and had no top end. Its got a 327 sbc engine in it and a turbo 400 tranny. Its also got a Holley pro-jection fuel system on it which is kinda cool and worth some good money on ebay still. It wasnt tuned at all however. After I paid for it and tried to drive it home, it started making huge knocking sounds, i am 99.9%sure its got rod knock cause the engine is in pretty bad shape.
I pulled the motor apart today somewhat, its got an edelbrock manifold on it, spal electric fan setup, moroso electric water pump, not bad and its wired pretty neatly.
Its also got some blue springs and it sits nice and low.
The engine however is shot.
I was originally going to rebuild it and put an auto behind it, but now I am itching to put in an LT1 with a 6 speed, just a nice cam, some exhaust and intake work and just smash around in a 350whp 2500lb car.
BTW, after all was said and done(HUGE problems getting it home, i lived 200 miles away, left it on the road, had it towed away, had to pay fees, had to rent a truck to finally bring it home) After all was said and done, I still got it for a steal.
What does everyone think its worth if the engine was in good shape(as if i was to simply rebuild it?)
THe guy who owned it before this last guy was very proud of it, its got cool v8 240z badges on the back and inside, very neat touch.
Here she is: