Alfadog

There was a website of a guy who had a 240ZG (replica I think) with them, looked great. Can't find it now though

This is my parts car I got about 2 months ago but then went on holiday for a month and stuff. Anyway, got around to taking pics finally. It's a beast and really dodgy, don't be deceived by the pics. It's utterly covered in bondo. I picked this up at about 1am on a Thursday night. I left for Ireland on Friday. So I really didn't have any idea what I paid for until I came home a month later. It's alright, it runs. It's just rusty and uncared for. Not beyond restoration, but you'd have to be pretty dedicated. It was apparently bought by his father in 1979 (2 years since new) and kept in the family all these years. For a car in this condition it's not exactly a selling point as it just shows the family suck at basic car-care rather than bringing forward a sense of trust. Anyway, why did I buy it? Well, scroll and find out Again, don't think the paint looks nice and metallic like Kyteler's and don't think that it doesn't look rusty. It's bad. The front left stainless trim was held on by a lump of BONDO. Real pity about the smashed in rear. The boot trim looks reasonably straight apart from that... that's one part I'd really like. The boot is full of crap. The badges look like they would crumble into a thousand small pieces upon the lightest drizzle of rain. See in the first picture from that lot all the cracked paint, and spray paint down near the bottom? That's all bondo under there I guess. Has the original stylish (cough) steel wheels though. The spot just behind the side glass on the right was no more than a bubble when I first attacked it with a screwdriver. 3 minutes later I decided to stop before I start peeling the side of the car off. The inner skin appears reasonably solid though. All the scratch marks on the bodywork are not from my mad hacking away at the rust hole (which was incidentally not without a strange sense of enjoyment), they are just bad preparation with the bondo. In fact, the hardest part of making that gash was getting through the inch thick layer of bondo. It's the same all along the side gutter. Weird place for a car to rust I would have thought, but perhaps it has just been sitting collecting crap in there for a few years at some stage. Bonnet isn't too bad, reasonably straight, but who knows how much of it is metal. By the way, all that light brown on the bonnet, roof and glass is just dirt. washed on from being under a car cover and being rained on. Onwards!... The interior stinks like petrol. The cause of this I took a picture of and will explain in a moment, but basically after taking these pictures my eyes really sting and are starting to go red. If you hit the seat, it will expel a cloud of dusty smoke that has an odour not dissimilar to my grandma's (rest her soul) closet, except about 50 times as concentrated. When I got the car, there were floor mats (3 of them on each side) and a small collection of shells. Also a rather large collection of beer bottle caps. I have since thrown this all in the bin. The mats made an odd squelching sound when I peeled them off the surprisingly decent condition floors. The dash looks as though it may have been an attempt to model the Grand Canyon. Luckily it has a blue mat to cover it. Yes and the seats you may have noticed... well yes I can now confirm that the seats from a Clown Car do fit the seat rails of a 240K. No but seriously, they're just recovered originals. The seats had 2 seat covers on each. I also took these off and into the bin, as they felt like you were sitting on a stray cat while driving. The bits of broken shell underneath the covers acted as the cat's claws! I have not been so brave as to take the second cover off the rear seat yet, because frankly I am scared. The seal between the side windows has deteriorated and some Einstien decided to seal it with silicone. Or snot maybe. Oh yeah, and it's manual! Haha! That's the reason I bought it. Engine bay shots! Yes under all that dust, mud and oil is a fire breathing monster. Actually the car doesn't run all that badly. It just makes you cry from the fumes. It is bodied KHGC110-015654, which is about 12,000 cars after the other one. Just goes to show what a bit of continuous care can achieve. It's four years newer. I included a picture of the fuel pump just to show the amount of crud in the engine. I'm not sure but I think there may be a stalegtite forming there. Oh and make sure to click on the second last picture - that's the exhaust system there and a clue as to why the text looks blurry right now. Later models have all this pollution control stuff you see including a tube from the exhaust coming back into the inlet. I have a feeling the guy who had the snot idea came up with the idea of disconnecting that. Oh yeah and the radiator... hey, what radiator?? OK that's all for now. It's probably not as bad as I'm making it out to be, but it's pretty f#^*ing bad. I'll be hopefully swapping the transmissions, and then trying to sell it to someone with a better tolerance of petrol fumes than me. If I can't do that for a decent price, I'll part it out (oh boo hoo) and give it to a wreckers. So, anyone collect beer bottle caps?

Yeah, very rare though. The C10 and C210 also did... IMO the sedans look pretty boring. But mod them a tiny bit and they look awesome. P.S. those first two pictures you posted are C210s.

" Ai nooooooo Skyriiiiiinnnnnneeeeee " Yeah what Michael said. They had a theme song too. Oddly, the actors playing Ken and Mary changed in almost every ad. Ken moreso! Actually the first Ken & Mary ad was for the Hakosuka in 1972. But it really took off with the C110 for some reason. At that time I guess a lot of young Japanese men and women related. The ads were always very artistic and slow - not trying to portray the car as a sports car, but rather a enjoyment car for living with - for love. BTW Michael/anyone, Alan gave me the theme song (2 versions - the original and a KARAOKE version) on cassette tape. Do you know of any decent way to capture the song onto computer without losing too much quality? Then I could send itto you to listen to while driving :)

I'm sorry to say that it is still auto. However! Not for long... hopefully. I'll post pics tomorrow to prove it Front lip came from where most of the other parts came from mate - Japan!

That's just me having a play around. Was given the plate by a good friend I met up with overseas, and wanted to take a pic with it on to show him. Here in Queensland they have this new style of personalised plate called the "Euro" plate. Looks a bit like a European Union plate. With all the imports and the very strong Japanese-car scene here I would have thought a Japanese style plate would be very feasible. Interestingly, there are Japanese numberplates that are all in english. These are for cars that leave the country and need temporary registration in another country. My friend told me this and showed me pictures. Anyway, enough of my rambling. Thankyou for your comments, it means a lot to me

Woo! New bumpertastic. Took some more pics too.

New rear speakers as the old ones were never really good. These are better and help balance out the stupid level of bass coming from the boot.

I like your progress

Nice engine bay man !

Great car, always liked 205 GTi's

is it...... yes... electric windows! you bastard. Give me them! Those wheels aren't bad, those ROH things are horrid. Get something that suits! Like what Michael suggested. Otherwise nice! Interesting re-covered seats. I want to pick off all of your JDM bits... On a side note I think it would look neater with chrome mirrors as its such a dark blue, and my wheels are 14x7.5 and 14x9 but you wont fit those without flares. I wonder how wide you could go on the back without flares or rubbing? Michael?

Four...? Who's the other? Or do you count as two

You have a C110 too then? Post pics! You know about the whole "Ken & Mary" thing dont you?

Hey nice av

I thought you were meant to post your pictures in the other forum?

Finally, more pictures. Firstly a couple of a Nissan Sport Corner dealership sticker, and a restored splashpan. The more exciting ones follow

Love the paint!!!

Your car is very different to all other Capris out there (S14 rear finishing bits - who woulda thought!) so I'd suggest some different wheels.

I bet it goes a lot faster than it looks Nice

and some of its arse end, mind

Yes, that is awesome. And I love that colour. I'll paint a car that colour one day... dunno about the flares though, but would have to see them in person before saying yay or nay. MORE PICS PLEASE!

Was going to make a topic about this too - awesome car man. I never realised how much work has gone into that car! Pity there's no picture of when you JUST got it... Love the 145 seats!

cant, my driveway goes CRANK! like this : ___/ (but the pictures kyteler showed you were from before it was lowered a bit more)

Yes, and a fkn low one at that!