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Looking for personal experience from those that have sold cars, mainly racecars, via the internet. Which sites have you used, eBay, Racing Junk, BAT and what were your results. Is selling a car just like selling parts on eBay or this site. Can you put too much info in your ad that might harm your sale or is more info always better. I am thinking if you leave a little info out you could generate some phone calls and then use your personal skills to help sell the car. I'm thinking of a price between 11.5 to 12.5 for my car so it is not a high end race car but one someone can buy and go right to the track and vintage race with HSR, SVRA or NASA. Tom

I am looking for L&R headlight buckets(can't believe I just sold mine and now I need a set). Complete front lower valence - both corner and center pieces. Also a Bre type rear spoiler - short one. Trying to piece together a 240 C production car for HSR Group 3 & SVRA Group 8 to go along with my 260 Group 5 & Group 6 car. Tom

Just picked up a 11/70 240 bare chassis - has front suspension/steering rack/column/wheel & rear suspension/r180 diff - 14" steel wheels with tires - nothing else. No doors, hood, hatch, interior or any lights or wiring. 1085 lbs. I am thinking of transferring everything from my 260 race car to this chassis to trim down my bulky 2350 lbs.

You could always let your car winter at S30 Motorsports and just fly down to drive it every so often. I am sure you have extra flight miles...... Clark won't mess with it too much.

Keep both. Use the 280 as your daily driver and restore 240 over time. That is you can afford to and have a place to to keep the 240. Wish I still had my 72' 240 which I got in 1979 and drove in high school.

Fellow Hybrid Z'ers need a little input. This is my sister-in-laws car she bought new in 1990 and drove until 2005 when she bought a new 350Z. She asked me what the value/sales price might be for this car. I usually only keep up with 1st gen cars since that is what I race. It has 142K original miles with an automatic transmission. Leather interior and carpets are in great shape,t-tops probably removed a dozen times in its lifetime with all accessories, guages, lights, a/c etc in good working order. It has been garaged kept and only used for weekend cruises since 2005. She is considering selling it or keeping it for my nephew to drive when he turns 16. What price range do you guys think this would sell for?

How do all these cars make it to the Great Northwest? Don't know what's better, there or Arizona. Reproducing that competition hood buldge would go well with the 3 piece rear spoiler I got from you.

Looks great. Hope you plan on redoing the front crossmember and steering rack to keep it all nice and clean.

Very nice. What data panel is that? Doesn't look like an Aim or Motec.

Nevermind, couldn't figure out how to put the pdf file on here. Try again later.

Thinking of doing some paint & graphics to the race truck to match it up with the red trailer. What do you guys think?

I try to do period correct on my car and drivers suit(except for the Bayern Munchen decal on rear quarter) so you are getting the right ideas from everybody. Just added Smokin Joe Camel sponsor decal and GTU. PLATA - nice pic of PLN. Would love to add a tribute 280zx racecar to our stable. Hard to find any around, especially with the body kit already installed.

I went through the similar problem with the big box saws( 2-Poulans & 1 - Mcculloch) after the three 2004 hurricanes came through central Fla and I had about 25-30 trees to cut. Finally realized you get what you pay for with small gas tools and went with the Stihl 20" Farm Boss and it hasn't failed me yet and it has been 8 years. Bought it from a local small shop to get the personalized service also. Can walk right in and get it serviced there compared to trying to get Lowes or Home Depot to do anything. Tom

Are you talking about the black pickup truck in your sideview mirror? Plus you get to go to all the WKU Hilltopper games and your close to Nashville. Almost went to WKU, but followed my 2 older brothers to Lexington and UofK. Now the closest I get is driving by on our way up from Fla to visit family in Louisville.

Very nice find, reminds me of my first 240Z I got back in the 70s. White is perfect color. Tom

Sounds very healthy and it looks like you have some wide meaty tires in the back, but probably not enough to handle all that power!!!!!

A lot depends on weight of the car. That is the first thing the Hoosier rep asked me while I was gridded for my last race. At 2500 lbs he said around 32 psi hot is what I should be shooting for. Hope that helps a little. If your car weighs less then you should be around 28-30 psi. Tom Sorry, but forgot to mention that is for their Vintage TD tires. Bias.

We are running that setup on both of our race cars. We have a set of stock 15x6 rims I could use to check clearance. How do you think your Weld rims compare to those?

I learned the hard way also. Trying to run a stock setup in a race car. Before all you stock spec ITS guys chew me out, I know you have to run that configuration, but most ITS guys will tell you their brakes need checking and servicing after every race if not during a race weekend itself. I found happiness once I completed my setup with a complete Wilwood system, m/c's, calipers, bias adjuster, and vented rotors. For extra cooling I also use cooling ducts. Replace all rubber hoses with stainless braided hoses. If you are not at that point many people either do a set number of laps during a track event and then come in for a cool off period or if you start to lose them during a race you can do a slower lap or abuse your motor and drivetrain to slow you down more for a lap also. Remember Braking 101 - Brake Hard and Brake Late. Do not ride the brakes into a corner like you do on the road. If you run a stock setup try track specific pads you put in before you go to the track and a good fluid. Change pads back to your street pads once you get home. You can do a break in at home and have those for your spares ready to go if you need to switch out at the track.

Go buy a lottery ticket right now because you have the lucky horse shoe in the right place.

Installed my Traqmate Data Acquisition system in the racecar and trying to find a date to some testing.

It looks great and I was looking at schemes from other IMSA Z cars from back in the 70s to emulate but wasn't sure if they had corporate partners if there would be copyright or trademark infringements. Because you know Jim McDonald could not call his local diner McDonalds without getting sued by the big McDonalds. I wish I could find one of those old cars to bring back to Historic racing but they seem to have all disappeared. Racing bodies love to have cars with true historic racing backgrounds in thier fields now. I can just see an old barn or garage with a IMSA GTU Z car setting there wanting to get back on track.

Are racing liveries trademarked? Can you copy any cars scheme without getting into trouble? If I wanted to copy the IMSA Coke Porsche would I have to get permission from Coca Cola to use its likeness?

You can have the first Z car in the DTM if you do the complete body....

Using edit features from my picture viewer.