78_280z

After getting it home I realized I had gotten my self into a huge project and was extremely worried. The car smelt awful. Hasn't been washed in years. Engine bay looked catastrophic. But quickly realized I would be alright. On her way home!! Here's some pictures after I got it into my garage. I didn't take very good ones regret it now but I was still felt over my head a little and didn't want to show it off yet (Don't mind the crappy camera the pictures get better soon ): I then focused my attention to the interior because it smelt so god awful of dead mice and a terrible biohazard completely making my garage smell. Ripped out the carpet to see the floors only saw one hole (So i thought) and help clear out the smell. Over all found only one dead mouse trapped in the cubby hols behind the seats.

Where to start... Well back story on the car and I. I am currently 19 and a tech student in college. I have been in love with the s30 design for along time and no clue why it started. I am big into my cars learned a lot on my own and own a lot of toys. Currently fulltime student and have been working long nights to pay for parts also putting in long hours mostly my weekends into working on the car. So About half way through high school a Datsun add popped up for sale on a Facebook buy/sell page I am part of. It had popped up for a few months price dropping slowly each time but I kept brushing it off. I finally contacted the seller a day before I was supposed to leave for a trip to California but no reply. Was kind of bummed by that. Came back from my trip to find the add popped back up again! 500$ cheaper this time. I proceeded to finally get ahold of the seller and arranged to drive out to the small town in Iowa a few hours away from my home to pick up the Z. Paying just $1,000 must have been meant to be . The Z is extremely complete and I almost walked away not knowing what I had and I feel I got very lucky. I have been currently working on the Z for about a year now putting in time when ever I can. I just now decided to start a build thread I will be uploading till I am at where I am today. The Z' is a 1978 280z two owner car. It really is a three owner car but the man I purchased it from never titled it in his name because he wanted to keep the owners down incase he didn't ever restore it (Huge DMV hassle for me). The man he bought it from was his friend who used to drive the car around till he went to preform a routine maintenance and snapped two sparkplugs in the head. He then pulled the head and ended up letting it sit. His plan was to restore the car with his son but his son soon grew up and was not one bit interested in cars or working with him. Pretty sad right who doesn't want a z !? So after along time of hounding his friend the man I got it from purchased it from him. He planned to also restore it but after getting the head checked out and finding it would need to be flattened nor having the proper shop or tools to do a restoration agreed with his friends and put it in a shed.... For 18+ years... Stacked with furniture and other odds and ends barricading it in. I have attached some of the listing pictures below: