Wow! I just looked at this Z back at the beginning of Jan. The guy's name was Luke right? I was looking at the pictures and everything started to look familiar. I hope your fix goes better than finding out it was a 280Z.
Here are some pictures I took of it too
http://s86.photobucket.com/albums/k89/speciallyspiked/71%20240Z%20Jan%201%202009/
The majority of the parts were in a van right? I think he might have switched the VINs cause he was telling me about junking another 240Z where he got a lot of the spare parts off.