Hey guys,

 

thought I start a thread about my progress with my 300zx. Well I bought it for really cheap which now I am not surprised at all :P Most would scrap this car but I have a lot of spare time and I do a lot of work on cars so I'll do most of the work by myself. The Z I bought had a blown headgasket, destroyed main bearings, busted and rusted chassis, the whole interior had fungus and mildew all over the leather seats and trimming....if this won't draw you back from buyinf it than you are as crazy as I am :cool3:

 

Soo I started stripping the car to pieces, the engine is already out and dissasembled, interior is out also and now I'm stripping the other stuff so I'll have just the shell to work on. Did a couple of pics so feast you eyes on the rust :P

 

 

Here it gets nasty...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So now I'm surrounded with a huge pile of parts, I took most of them already to my warehouse like the engine and interior, want to focus on the bodywork and rust repair for now. Now my garage is pretty empty :P

 

Well that's about it for now, just need to remove the rear suspension, fuel tank and brake lines and it's ready for repairing and welding. Hope to become a fully paid member pretty soon...:P Wish me luck lol.

can they not be reversed over ??

can they not be reversed over ??

 

Looking at it yesterday...I saw that the shell is almost like mirrored, except the firewall obviously but that could be swaped. Everything looks symmetrical on both sides...but anyway I'm still going to try to fix this one.

 

Oh and I just remembered...I saw many people on here mentioning ebay replacement panels but I never saw any on ebay...either I'm not searching good enough or I'm missing something.

You must have a lot of time on your hands bud! All the best, it's going to be one hell of an achievement.

i dont think you have much choice but to fix this one up anyway, unless your mega rich, like said above a lhd in europe is very scarce,

 

At least when its done mate you still shouldn't be too much out of pocket when it comes to selling it i assume?

Nah I'm not mega rich :D

 

And yes, I thought that if I would need to sell it I could even make a profit. If a decent one is from 6k and upwards, and this one hopefully will be with no rust and a rebuilt engine and new paint job it's going to be worth far more than I will spend on it, and I hope the prices will jump sky high in a few years when people start to realize the value of this car...the reason I'm fixing it also.

Nah I'm not mega rich :D

 

And yes, I thought that if I would need to sell it I could even make a profit. If a decent one is from 6k and upwards, and this one hopefully will be with no rust and a rebuilt engine and new paint job it's going to be worth far more than I will spend on it, and I hope the prices will jump sky high in a few years when people start to realize the value of this car...the reason I'm fixing it also.

 

 

thats what i thought, well done and good luck mate!

Mate

Don't listen to any of the negatives.All rare classics need loving sugar daddies to keep them alive.If you end up with exactly what you want and another one gets kept on the road even double the money would be worth it

I take my hat off to you and hope everything goes really well :tongue_smilie: