>pic semi relatedPurchased a 240z in decently shit condition as my 2nd project car. First was just suspension, brakes, and interior work. Now I will be doing a complete tear down, fixing dents, repairing rust holes and such, and going through the process of putting it all back together with new parts and upgrades. I've never done body work before and am not really sure where to start. Is there a good place do research with specifics on how to fix rusted holes and repair body panels back to a stock look?
>>295045The old Roadkill cast have interesting YouTube channels. Steve Dulcich has several videos where he details how to do body work and paint.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkpl391reM4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQR9NTIR6JQ
>>2950452I can't answer your question but as a 240Z fan I to stop by and say nice car. My first car was a 1973 240Z/1974 260Z frankenstein I bought back in 1988. Car cancer got it the same year. Found a near all original 1971 240Z in 1993 and drove it for 10 years before having to let it go. I still regret that decision to this day. I still have the VIN#'s memorized for both. :^)
>>2950452>I've never done body work before and am not really sure where to start.youtubeNEXT dumb question
>>2950452How much did you pay for this jalopy and why didn't you just post a pic of its condition?
>>2950508>I still have the VIN#'s memorized for both. :^)That's awesome and hilarious bro, my old roommate had the VIN #s off his high school Subaru memorized it was a riced out Legacy wagon lmfao
>>2950452I did a project car like this over the course of 10 years (including 6 years hiatus) A while ago now but I watched vids from the likes of Pete at swrnc (the old ones) and others which I forget which had some detail on the sheet metal work. You just need a bit of inspiration and a bit of an idea of what to do then just go for it. You'll work it out. You'll need a decent welder with gas, preferably inverter which you can turn right down low. 0.6mm MIG wire is the best for body panels but can be hard to run right being so thin. Get an angle grinder (preferably 2) maybe a dremel, large and small chisel, large and small hammer, spot weld drill bits. It takes a lot of hours, just put on some good music.
>>2950508>260Z frankenstein I bought back in 1988Did you buy it for $100 and forget its worth about $15k today? Don't take it personal, I'm jealous you got definitely got it dirt cheap and it appreciated in value by doing nothing.
Was this thread created just toget this link in?https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN0SuqPcbLqGvImGUuOaCsLXTseGiBN02Though that video series is not your normal restoration stuff, it shows plenty of basic techniques.
>>2952579No, I bought it as a 1973 240Z and paid $1,000 CAD for it. Looked good (looked exactly like the attached pic but with wire spoked rims) and was mechanically sound. When tracing a wiring issue much of it didn't match the Haynes manual and I couldn't figure out why. Turns out the front half of the car was a 240Z and the back half was a '74 260Z.How I found that out was pure chance. I had the car for about a month and one day while fueling it, I saw a guy in a car on the road next to me waiting at a red light looking at me. A few moments later he backs up and pulls into the lot, parks, and approaches. I was like 'uh-oh.. what's going on here...'. Guy asks if I bought it off so-&-so. (Yeah, I did.) Then he said he used to own my car and sold it to the kid before me. Told me he got it for nothing as the front half was literally torn off in an accident. He and a buddy found a 240Z at a wreckers and welded it onto the 260Z. Well that explains the wiring mystery. Needless to say I wasn't too impressed but caveat emptor.Exactly 6 months later I hit a protruding manhole and heard a weird crunch type noise and the steering suddenly felt slightly odd. Got home and found the frame broken just behind the front-left wheel. Closer examination found the floor boards and frame extensively rotten. I ended up selling it for parts to a member of the local Z car club. My 1st car, it was fun to drive and a very learning experience. Balancing those twin-side draft carbs was a real chore.Honestly, at the time I wanted a 5-speed 280ZX turbo w/ T-roof but couldn't quite afford it.>>2952486Nice. My 1st Z had a 6-digit serial #, my 2nd one had a low 5-digit #. I had it on the IZCC and some guy had a car that was 1 digit before mine. He sent me copies of old documents showing the name of the shift supervisor the day my car rolled off the assembly line in Japan, and the clearance papers when it entered the USA (via Port of Long Beach irc). Somewhere I still have those papers.
>>2952990>Somewhere I still have those papers.Every estate sale I go to there is a filing cabinet or some shit filled with crap like that. Manuals for vintage cars, vintage tools, vintage stereo equipment. It always gets me excited because sometimes, sometimes there is something tucked away somewhere. That is how I got a Pioneer SX-727 with the full lot of manuals, the brochure from the dealer, and the original receipt for $40 on the last day of an estate sale. It was inside a cabinet they weren't selling and hooked into the house speakers but no one had looked inside and they were happy to get rid of it. I also got an Atari 2600 and a rack of games with manuals the same way.Also, paperwork stashes like that sell for a bit on eBay. Not a lot, but they sell reliably and are easy to ship.
>>2952990>No, I bought it as a 1973 240Z and paid $1,000 CAD for it.So, you paid $500 real dollars for it and its now $15,000. What charity are you donating it to when you die?
There is a guy doing a full year down and retire on YouTube. How can you be this stupid?
Here you go, faggothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B13vXFj37RIIf you don't end up machining your own ball joints you should probably just kill yourself
