ziptieracer Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 Well, I finally got the first stage of my project done, which was getting the garage all setup and tearing apart and cutting up my old project to fund this one. Old project is finally cut up and some of the parts have sold, so I'm finally starting to get some funds for the Z project. I purchased a '70 240Z about a month ago for $600. It hasn't ran in 10 years and it has a bit of rust, but it still looked better than everything else I looked at for under a grand. It also has a 5spd tranny in it, and it came with a bunch of extra parts, including and extra 4spd tranny and an extra r180 diff. I figure after I sell all the extra parts I'm not gonna need, I should be pretty close to even on the purchase of the car. On to the pics. Its got a fairly decent scrape on the driver's fender and door. The driver's side rocker(passenger side is about half as bad) Bottom of one of the fenders And now it's finally in the garage ready to get worked on. So the next stage I have planned is to start stripping her down and see just how bad the rust is. The rockers are pretty scary looking, everything else I've seen so far doesn't look that bad. As long as there isn't too much rust that compromises structural intregrity, I'm gonna keep it. Anything structural gets fixed before the swap, anything cosmetic or surface rust will be treated to keep it from spreading and the damage can be fixed at a later date after the swap is done. I don't want to end up with a flawless beatiful looking Z-shell that sits in my garage for years on end. im on a limited budget and getting it running under it's own LS-1 power is priority number 1. I'll post some more pics after I get it more stripped down and can take some better pics of how bad the rust spots are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubin Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 nice find for a good price hopefully the rust shown there is all u gotta worry bout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaysirX Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 I live in San Diego also. PM me so I can come check out your ride and talk shop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paz8 Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 And I thought that rusty Z's were an EAST coast thing. Looks not that bad, your off to a good start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LS1 240Z Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 looks like my car lol, ive seen 2 cars on this site that pretty much look like mine. im doing the LS1 swap too. just hope that rust isnt too bad. you would figure that in california you could find a rust free Z lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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