Been for sale for a while now and not sure if it was posted here before but this is a rare UK 300zx with low miles and ultra rare colour. (yes they did have a yellow UK 300zx) Colour looks odd in pictures so I hope its not a respray.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-NISSAN-300-ZX-3-0-TARGA-TURBO-2D-AUTO-280-BHP-/272254129787?hash=item3f639c567b:g:dKkAAOSwBPNXRctw

 

I don't think I've ever been as jealous as I am right now.

I agree though, as much as I'd love to own all of those cars (and more), I'd always prefer the Z.

 

Going to make you more jealous now Jay by saying he used to own a mint Honda NSX and he now has this sitting in his garage.

http://www.carbuildindex.com/14736/lamborghini-diablo-refresh/

Edited September 23, 20169 yr by Gaz 300

Going to make you more jealous now Jay by saying he used to own a mint Honda NSX and he now has this sitting in his garage.

http://www.carbuildindex.com/14736/lamborghini-diablo-refresh/

 

I know, thanks for helping :lol:

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I know, thanks for helping :lol:

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My bad spelling being corrected Alic.

NSX is just in a whole other league when it comes to the JDM cars. Unfortunately I have to say it's the best one they built. But then it was allot more expensive NEW as well.... ZX is easier tuned though, and that feel off the turbo kicking in is great.

Yeah your right there Gary.......I'm keeping a close eye out for one, thanks for helping too on watching for the type I'm after...

 

The 300zx gets under your skin Sudesh and you will not be happy till you get another one mate.

I started looking at Honda NSXs and 911 Turbos (996) about 5 or 6 years ago before I became ultra-attached to my Z. The prices of both cars have skyrocketed, the NSX especially. When I was looking they were sub £20k and you could get a reasonable one for that money, now, to find a good one, a manual too, you're looking at £30k+, the 911 996 Turbo got down to around £15k, but that's now mid 20s (however it's not as exclusive as the Z32) I don't think I'd get the value in terms of performance over the increase in cost, however they are both a better drive.

 

I've come to love the 300zx even more than before and I think they've 'becoming of age' which has made me want to hold on to it even more. They've almost become 'full circle' as the horrendously modified and poor examples are gradually diminishing. Their appeal has increased as a result, not just for me, but for the general public I think.

Yeah your right there Gary.......I'm keeping a close eye out for one, thanks for helping too on watching for the type I'm after...

 

No worries mate glad to help were I can.

I started looking at Honda NSXs and 911 Turbos (996) about 5 or 6 years ago before I became ultra-attached to my Z. The prices of both cars have skyrocketed, the NSX especially. When I was looking they were sub £20k and you could get a reasonable one for that money, now, to find a good one, a manual too, you're looking at £30k+, the 911 996 Turbo got down to around £15k, but that's now mid 20s (however it's not as exclusive as the Z32) I don't think I'd get the value in terms of performance over the increase in cost, however they are both a better drive.

 

Consider as well that you could pay over €250,000 for an excellent NSX-R. I can't imagine there's a Z32 in the world that will get more than €40,000 in the next few years!

Consider as well that you could pay over €250,000 for an excellent NSX-R. I can't imagine there's a Z32 in the world that will get more than €40,000 in the next few years!

 

I can think of a few that has that spent on it and a few that would be worth that.

I can think of a few that has that spent on it and a few that would be worth that.

 

But we're not talking about stock cars then, right?

But we're not talking about stock cars then, right?

 

A precedent has been set by a UK trader for a 20k Z (over priced but its there) and in 2 years time if one of our holy trinity of club Z's (JP Si Andrew)was to go up for sale then I would not be surprised if 40k was asked.

Not sure I can see them going that high to be honest. 240zs haven't really reached £40k yet. I think in about 5 years time we'll see very clean examples go for £15k-17k, realistically, the £19k UK one is unlikely to sell at that price (although I know what a certain wide-arch shorty went for), you can put whatever price tag you want on a car, but whether it will achieve it is another matter. Over inflating values can work on some things, but there still isn't quite the market for that with the Z32 although it definitely has reached retro/classic status.

 

What I have noticed is that in the last 5 years, their values have doubled (they had reached the bottom of their depreciation curve in around 2010 where they flatlined for a few years). Regularly for example, you'd see 'fairly' good Z32 TT manuals going for around £3,500, they're now going for around £6k. You can still get sheds for a lot less as well as NAs and autos, even their values have increased slightly. To add, even though 300zxs have started coming back into the UK as the grey import market for these cars has started to come alive again, their values have also gone up in Japan too, especially on the later models.

Edited September 23, 20169 yr by Funkysi

As nice as the 240z's are they were never classed as a Jap super car so I think the z32 will surpass them. In my opinion the z32 300zx will rocket in price as the numbers dwindle but that's me looking at prices of Ford Escorts and the like. Time will tell and in two years time I might remember to bump this thread.:)

Been a member of many car forums and clubs for longer than I wish to remember the above conversation has been discussed many, many times on many marques of car, trends go up and go down too, many E type jag owners found out in the mid eighties the car they thought was worth £200k and just had a £50k rebuild was very suddenly a £20k car, and now yes they are back as classic cars are on the up.

 

But, as much as we all love the zx it just is not a classic in the true sense, we all talk about it been one but the fact is in 1990 it was ground breaking and an amazing car, but it has been eclipsed now by newer technology, and more over style. It will always be there as an icon of the early nineties, like the earlier hot hatches that were new then. But to be talking £20k now is nonsense and that trader is fishing for a massive pay day, no way did he pay anything like that for it, as a trader you would be mad to risk that much cash on such a fickle market.

 

 

Enjoy your zed for what it is instead of getting hooked up on its future value, who cares really, they are 25 year old cars, mostly rusty and mostly worn out, yes I said it and you all know its true, granted we have some exceptional cases on here, but the main body of z32 on the UK roads are simply mediocre, that will not rise in value, quite the reverse if issues are not attended to. So to continue with this £10k, £15k, and £20k pricing is just trendy market manipulation not real value. Of course those with the really good ones can and most likely will just not sell below a "certain" price, but a price that in main does not apply to many.

 

As a long term fan of the zed, ( had my first one over twenty years ago ) I speak it how it is, I feel the same about other similar cars like the Toyota Supra! madness prices at the moment on sale, but do they actual sell in big numbers at those prices? now that is the question.

 

Enjoy your ride for now, only garage queens have any chance of the big numbers, and that is a shame, I made the same mistake having covered around 22k miles in 12 years, yes a got a reasonable price when selling but looking back I did not spend enough time in it to enjoy it, of course I could be totally wrong and we have slipped into a parallel universe where a 1970 RS Escorts would sell for £40k .......... oh crap they do !!

 

Jeff

Been a member of many car forums and clubs for longer than I wish to remember the above conversation has been discussed many, many times on many marques of car, trends go up and go down too, many E type jag owners found out in the mid eighties the car they thought was worth £200k and just had a £50k rebuild was very suddenly a £20k car, and now yes they are back as classic cars are on the up.

 

But, as much as we all love the zx it just is not a classic in the true sense, we all talk about it been one but the fact is in 1990 it was ground breaking and an amazing car, but it has been eclipsed now by newer technology, and more over style. It will always be there as an icon of the early nineties, like the earlier hot hatches that were new then. But to be talking £20k now is nonsense and that trader is fishing for a massive pay day, no way did he pay anything like that for it, as a trader you would be mad to risk that much cash on such a fickle market.

 

 

Enjoy your zed for what it is instead of getting hooked up on its future value, who cares really, they are 25 year old cars, mostly rusty and mostly worn out, yes I said it and you all know its true, granted we have some exceptional cases on here, but the main body of z32 on the UK roads are simply mediocre, that will not rise in value, quite the reverse if issues are not attended to. So to continue with this £10k, £15k, and £20k pricing is just trendy market manipulation not real value. Of course those with the really good ones can and most likely will just not sell below a "certain" price, but a price that in main does not apply to many.

 

As a long term fan of the zed, ( had my first one over twenty years ago ) I speak it how it is, I feel the same about other similar cars like the Toyota Supra! madness prices at the moment on sale, but do they actual sell in big numbers at those prices? now that is the question.

 

Enjoy your ride for now, only garage queens have any chance of the big numbers, and that is a shame, I made the same mistake having covered around 22k miles in 12 years, yes a got a reasonable price when selling but looking back I did not spend enough time in it to enjoy it, of course I could be totally wrong and we have slipped into a parallel universe where a 1970 RS Escorts would sell for £40k .......... oh crap they do !!

 

Jeff

 

With respect, you're talking absolute rubbish in the part I've highlighted!

 

There are plenty of examples on this forum alone that are having serious amounts of money and workmanship put into them, so to classify the "majority" as being rusty and knackered is simply hugely disrespectful...

With respect, you're talking absolute rubbish in the part I've highlighted!

 

There are plenty of examples on this forum alone that are having serious amounts of money and workmanship put into them, so to classify the "majority" as being rusty and knackered is simply hugely disrespectful...

 

I don't think he meant the majority of cars on this forum, he meant all the cars in the UK as a whole. How many of the zeds in the UK are not on this forum? Must be quite a lot, I would hazard a guess at considerably more than are on it (really hard to know though of course). And as members of a one make club, you would assume the cars on here are better than most.

 

Look at the spread of cars on gumtree and ebay, I think I would agree with Jeff's assessment there... so many are "projects"

 

Plus, being pedantic as ever, he actually said "mediocre", not "rusty and knackered" :tt2:

With respect, you're talking absolute rubbish in the part I've highlighted!

 

There are plenty of examples on this forum alone that are having serious amounts of money and workmanship put into them, so to classify the "majority" as being rusty and knackered is simply hugely disrespectful...

 

 

"Absolute rubbish" Hang on, spend real time up close underneath even many shiny one`s and you will have a different opinion, you know I speak from direct experience here, I have stood under maybe 3 thousand zeds in my time maybe more including 1996/97 ones and I know the truth hurts but the facts are there to see, of course there are exception ones, never said any different, in fact quite the reverse if you read through it again. I also was not saying they are all shitters, what I was trying to illustrate was the big, big numbers are not going to be attained by the general cars.

 

Jeff

Part of owning an old niche vehicle is taking an interest in its value IMO. Some might not agree with me, but I think a majority probably will. It's not necessarily because we'd all like to see a profit, it's more the fact that generally the car is getting noticed more and its appeal is increasing, that's what I like about appreciating classic values, it reflects on the public perception. There are many reasons why we own these cars and this is one of them whether one likes it or not - the over riding factor is it is also VERY important for insurance purposes.

 

They don't need to be garage queens to be clean and tidy, but you do have to be careful where and when you use something that's so old and doesn't have the construction or protection of new vehicles. My Z gets used a lot in summer months and taken on quite epic road trips, but I chose not to drive it in the wet or the damp when you can't use the full potential of the car putting it at risk from collision and also corrosion, especially in the winter - you may as well pour hydrochloric acid all over it and pelt it with rocks. I'd sooner get my kicks out of it on a nice hot summer's day. :D

 

As for the majority of Zs being rusty and knackered, Jeff raises a valid point, however as Chis has said, there are an increasing number of restored or clean examples appearing on the forum. Whilst I may have agreed with that statement a few years, ago and there are still a LOT of rotten horrors about, it's becoming less and less of a 'thing'. So many have been broken up for spares, left to rot in fields etc, those that are on the road and being cared for are becoming more prevalent in terms of ratio. There are far less turds around then there use to be when the market was flooded with rotten heaps or cars that had bits of fibreglass and plastic nailed to them in a feeble attempt at making them look 'better', all those cars did was drive down the values and also the perception.

Edited September 23, 20169 yr by Funkysi

Part of owning an old niche vehicle is taking an interest in its value IMO. Some might not agree with me, but I think a majority probably will. It's not necessarily because we'd all like to see a profit, it's more the fact that generally the car is getting noticed more and its appeal is increasing, that's what I like about appreciating classic values, it reflects on the public perception.

 

As for the majority of Zs being rusty and knackered, Jeff raises a valid point, however as Chis has said, there are an increasing number of restored or clean examples appearing on the forum. Whilst I may have agreed with that statement a few years, ago and there are still a LOT of rotten horrors about, it's becoming less and less of a 'thing'. So many have been broken up for spares, left to rot in fields etc, those that are on the road and being cared for are becoming more prevalent in terms of ratio. There are far less turds around then there use to be when the market was flooded with rotten heaps or cars that had bits of fibreglass and plastic nailed to them in a feeble attempt at making them look 'better', all those cars did was drive down the values and also the perception.

 

Yes, yes and yes,

 

Jeff

"Absolute rubbish" Hang on, spend real time up close underneath even many shiny one`s and you will have a different opinion, you know I speak from direct experience here, I have stood under maybe 3 thousand zeds in my time maybe more including 1996/97 ones and I know the truth hurts but the facts are there to see, of course there are exception ones, never said any different, in fact quite the reverse if you read through it again. I also was not saying they are all shitters, what I was trying to illustrate was the big, big numbers are not going to be attained by the general cars.

 

Jeff

 

I've spent time under a number of Zeds, thanks. And surprisingly, they weren't rusty rotboxes. So I speak from direct experience as well!

 

But as we can probably assume that the "majority" of cars are present on this very forum then you saying that the majority are crap is disrespectful, as I said previously.

I've spent time under a number of Zeds, thanks. And surprisingly, they weren't rusty rotboxes. So I speak from direct experience as well!

 

But as we can probably assume that the "majority" of cars are present on this very forum then you saying that the majority are crap is disrespectful, as I said previously.

 

No not meant that way at all, maybe my clumsy way of saying, and it maybe a surprise as much as we all love it here there is many, many zed owners who are not on this forum, the UK is a large place and we had thousands of long term customers on our books and a good proportion were not on the forum as it was not their choice so the generalisation was not exclusively pointing at members here.

 

"Disrespectful " ? never !! why would I want to be? this has been my working life for what seems like forever, and seemingly yours too albeit for a massively shorter period of time which may well attribute to why the difference in the zeds you have looked under as well as the reason that any particular zed is with you.

 

Jeff

We all have the right to have different opinions and openly discuss it here so don't get to upset on what is said. I mean 40k for a 300zx in two years time how mad is that.:lol:

No not meant that way at all, maybe my clumsy way of saying, and it maybe a surprise as much as we all love it here there is many, many zed owners who are not on this forum, the UK is a large place and we had thousands of long term customers on our books and a good proportion were not on the forum as it was not their choice so the generalisation was not exclusively pointing at members here.

 

"Disrespectful " ? never !! why would I want to be? this has been my working life for what seems like forever, and seemingly yours too albeit for a massively shorter period of time which may well attribute to why the difference in the zeds you have looked under as well as the reason that any particular zed is with you.

 

Jeff

 

I'm simply basing my opinion on those I've seen with my own eyes and the build threads on this forum and elsewhere.

 

What you seem to be saying is similar to one of dan300zx's old hobby-horses, which is that we (as collective owners) shouldn't even consider that our cars may be worth good money one day, because they just won't be. Your rationalisation for this is that they've been overshadowed by the likes of Supras and whatnot - basically, later cars.

 

But how many old Escort owners would've imagined that their cars would be worth big money in the future...? I used to own Opel Mantas all the time when I was younger and I regularly paid £200 a time for a car that I'd run into the ground and then scrap. Nowadays, even the scrappers are selling for thousands! I'd have never predicted that.

 

Long and short of it is this: as these cars become more rare, the price will increase for the examples that remain. This is basic supply and demand. The dealer who wants £20k is undoubtedly dreaming at the moment, but I don't think it'll be too many years before we see good Z32s changing hands for 5-figure sums.

Yes Mondo, agree in the main and don`t want to offend anyone here, hey up lets make a pact and meet here in twenty years time see who was right ! Lol beers on me if I was right and beers on me even if I was wrong eh??

 

The Portuguese have a word "calma" and you can guess what it mean, they use it all of the time when talking and having discussion`s with "friends"

 

Calma my friends .... lol

 

Jeff