Stephen

Looking good mate.

Did you race down in the kia pride? Lol

Not seen one like that before.

There's so much crap being written about the z35, rumours of hybrids, twinturbo 4cyl's, a return if the zx even targa equipped cars. There's an article on that page about how they wish to make a spiritual successor for the 240z errrr wasn't that the plan with the z33 z34 and oh wait they aren't just spiritual successors but a whole timeline of Fairlady's http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2013/08/nissan-preparing-new-z-car-as-240z-spiritual-successor.html I really wish something concrete and reliable would come out. I also wish Nissan would stop pissing about, the z got progressively large and complex over time which, it was criticized for with the 280zx and z31. Then they finally made a good fairlady again with the z32 shelved it and realised something on equal par to the car they invented a decay debit more previously saying it would be the return if the dirk aft and hark back to the original concept. 10 years later they are going to bring back the 240z fairlady, come on guys stop messing about.

New strip looks great.

My 89 had lived outside for the vast majority of its life it's not rotten at all. It is still a 15 year old car though one that does rust.

It's the way forward, eligibility for classic insurance cheap daily cost and gives you freedom to take the zed apart for maintaince without the stress of getting parts and rushing things.

As soon as you can afford it get as many if the water pipes as possible changed and then the cambelt or if budget allows both at the same time. If you can get those done even on a low mileage motor, rubber rots, then you will take away the main weaknesses that occur. With winter fast approaching be careful with that new car, they can surprise esp in the wet. Look forward to pics and your progress, welcome.

Not one I can do on short notice but I spotted a sign on the roadside last night at silly o'clock. It appears to be a family car show for Children in Need, last year raising £1.1m link provided. http://www.carfest.org/Content/Welcome-to-CarFest-South Some one might be interested and if yiu go let us know if it was good and it may be one to top on the Calander to arrange next year :)

Well done, get driving it now :)

Yup, my dad paid a fair few quid for his. Looked after it with main dealer servicing etc etc and as I say it just fell apart and he paid to fix and it sold for about £2k. He was gutted.

It's a quirky and interesting engine, it's a far older design than many realise and it obviously extremly tuneable, being able to bolt on more rotors is crazy. I still don't like it though lol.

Maybe he was a dud then cos honestly it was crap.

So yeah, not offically owned one but worked on lived with and driven yes.

Not directly it was owned by my father. Il give it it's dues it went back and forth on long jounerys a fair few times but the common issue with flooding came up a few times, the interior fell apart at any given oppertunity the sump rusted out from the inside out, every mot included suspension repairs and the underside liked worse than a car two or three times it's age. He could get low 20s out if it but on average mid teens. He brought that car a few years old with reasonably low miles, owned it for four years and lost thousands on it, he was gonna sell it earlier but he brought it with his retirement bonus and couldn't bear the finicail hit. It had all the extras, areo kit the lot. It was a pretty disappointing experice and my zed ran timeing a round it and came to it's reduce a fair few times.

I swear gulwings are even a pain in the ass when the chassis is designed for them originally, you end up with ugly pneumatic struts exposed and most importantly if a gull wing car crashes and cones to rest on it's roof your screwed, the SLS has some explosive charge in the door to blow it off like an air bag in the event that happens iirc.

Oh right, I hadn't seen any at home but last two times I've been here ice seen a handful of them.

Genuinely a crap car based mostly around gimmicks and quirks. They took an iconic Japanese sports car threw away all the good things and kept the crap then made it worse. They kept the silly uneconomical, unreliable and unusual rotary engine, reduced it's power output ignored the fact that 230hp for 12-16mpg is in today's climate just embarrassing really. Then they stuck two ridiculous doors in the back which are barely of any use and simply up the curb weight significantly. Drop the rx8 Mazda go back and pretend you didn't do it and make another rx7 use a chassis based around the mx5 to keep it cheap and small, modify it a touch to make it a tin top, then use the focus st or rs engine out thier parts bin again keeping down production costs and stick a price tag of about £30k on it you would have a Stella little sports car to rivail Porsches boxster, instead of the dinosaur with half a ton of crap added to it they currently are producing.

I've seen two teslas and an aventador this week aswel, tesla are Dutch right? The BMW both were at home.

The doors lift up like a gull wing style and leave exposed chassis which looked to me like dry carbon...

I'd never buy french thier crap. I'd never have another vauxhall either they are even worse...I quite like the new fiestas for a small hatch or the BMW 1/3 series for something bigger.

It's like a prototype that didn't get toned down, needs time to become less out there.

May be worth getting a set machined up, one would be a touch expensive but for four it could be more worth it.

You could potentially run 2 1800 cfm fans, but the z rad isn't that big...

Do who's seen one then now they are out? I've seen two, had a nose round one aswel funny thing it's like a cartoon.