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Who makes that front strut brace? It looks pretty nice.

I knew a guy that owned a Merkur Xr4Ti and his plate was FIASCO.

Title should be "Tired of living?" That look like death on a stick, mate.

Better yet, rent the storage area and clean out all the stuff from the garage that you don't need to work on your Z and put it all in the storage area. At some point down the road "forget" to make the payments and the people that manage the storage area will dispose of everything for you. Then it's not really your fault that everything gets thrown out.

Cool, I just ordered it from Amazon.com

I'd be willing to be that he has receipts totalling $35K so I think he figures that he's entitled to get all of his money back. Seriously, that's NOT going to happen with a plain old 280Z. Nissan couldn't even get all their money back on the factory restored cars so why should he be different?

I've seen one of those race at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix and you cannot believe how loud it is. It's the only car that you can hear from any point on the track while spectating and the sound is pretty much the same as a sport bike. Outstanding.

And you guys JUNK these kinds of cars in California?

Wow. I just weighed my nearly stock '75 280Z on my Longacre scales and it was 2664 (without any bumpers but with a full tank of gas and a turbo flywheel in the hatch area).

I'd suggest trying to get hooked up someplace as a subcontractor for a kitchen and bath outfit. A friend of mine does installs and remodels for a big time kitchen and bath shop here in Pittsburgh. He doesn't have to do layouts, help customers make decisions or order materials he just installs what he's given and follows the designs somebody else spent time drawing up. The best part is that the kitchen and bath company pays him directly so he doesn't have to worry about collecting money from customers or hounding people who are delinquent. The bottom line for him is that all of the hours he puts in each week are billable.

I just checked a Kyosho 1/18 scale diecast to see what they did. It's a basic white with gunmetal ZG flares, bumpers and rear spoiler. The tail lights are red and amber and the under hood area is painted to match the outside of the car (white). The interior seems to be your standard black Z car stuff. It also had steel wheels with hubcaps when I got it but I've since swapped on some GMP Can Am wheels and tires that are much more meaty and it gives the car and aggressive street racer look.

I'm farther west, in Pittsburgh PA.

Thanks for the quick responses to a post by a long time lurker.

So now that JSK is out of the Datsun parts business, where can I get an aluminum spacer for a 240SX throttle body?

I'll chime in because I hated college. It took me 5 1/2 years (failed out at one point) to earn a four year degree in communications because I couldn't stand all the bullcrap theory and nonrelated classes that I was forced to take. My first year in college I worked day and night at the campus radio station (which didn't help my already poor grades) getting hands on experience with all aspects of broadcasting and I also took on an upaid internship for no school credit to get my foot in the door of a real radio station. During my last four and a half years I moved up to constantly working at local commercial stations doing part time announcing, commercial writing and production, running syndicated music and sporting events-whatever they wanted to pay me to do. I wanted to drop out of school several times because I could easily get a full time job in radio but my parents kept convincing me to stick it out and get my degree. Eventually I graduated exactly at the schools minimum GPA but immediately had a full time job at a commercial station and took my evening time slot from nearly last in the Arbitrons to first place in one 6 month period. I never looked back and kept advancing in the industry until I eventually bought my own (small town) radio station. I sold it several years back for a nice profit and now I work in a retail/internet business that a good friend owns. My parents were also upset with my grades in college but I kept telling them that they didn't matter-it was the hands on skills that I had developed. It was only when I started getting lucrative jobs in radio that they finally began to understand what I had been trying to tell them all along. FWIW, all the "top" students (bookworms, no real hands on experience) that I went to school with have never even worked in the industry. It was nice to go to a reunion show up more than a few people who looked down on me while in school. My point? College taught me almost NOTHING related to what I wanted to do but my degree has opened a lot of doors along the way, especially with large corporations that get lots of applicants. A degree says that you have started and completed something and potential employers want to see that you have some kind of drive and determination. Attending college but not getting a degree is going to hurt you more than anything. Suck it up and finish the degree. A general business degree will open doors for you EVERYWHERE. I've hired a lot of people over the years and a degree listed on a resume always looks better to me than none. With that said I HAVE hired many nondegreed candidates over ones with one simply because of the actual skills and experience they brought to the table. I feel you're first mistake is drinking in bars with tools. Cut out the beer and time wasting and put that money into a savings account because you're going to need a lot of stuff when you move out of your parents house. I feel like you're not telling us the whole story regarding your siblings and how your parents paid for their schooling but are not cooperative with yours. Stop being a rebel, show some maturity and start making an effort to get along with your family. Friends and coworkers come and go but the only people that you can REALLY count on is your family. They're stuck with you for life so make the best of it. You can either choose them to be great allies or powerful enemies-your choice. Sorry to be preachy but I've been in your shoes myself and I've turned out pretty good by following this advice.

I am hoping someday to be on a jury in a case like that. There is NO WAY I could ever let that kind of award be given, even if I had to one by one choke the other members of the jury to death. This kind of lawsuit is totally irresponsible and serves no purpose other than to line the pockets of ambulance chasing attorneys.

That's what I was going to suggest. You can either borrow a lift and look for them yourself or have a PI sweep the car with something electronic. I'd suggest that if you find something you do NOT just throw it away. Instead disable it by taking out the batteries and reinstall it exactly where you found it. Then keep the car under video survellience and get the guy on tape when he goes to check out the bug. Then you'll have made your case for a RO.

If you really want this to go forward you need to get other vendors involved. MSA is obviously not willing to foot the entire bill but what if two or three other companies would split the order? Try contacting Gabe at Techno Toy Tuning and see if he willing to preorder any. Beyond him I have no idea who may be interested in placing a large preorder. Good luck with everything, I'd take two sets (eight wheels total) if they ever become available.