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2-owner almost all original car. My father began maintaining this car when he was a mechanic at the Datsun dealership in 1971. He later opened his own shop and the owner continued to trust him for all of the maintenance. He did a partial restoration about 15 years ago. The owner got too old to enjoy the car and gave my father first choice. Since my father had nowhere to store the car, I obtained it, and I'm technically the second owner. I got it in November of 2009 and drove it daily for over a year. I bought a more practical car and since then it hasn't seen many miles. It has ALWAYS been garage kept, but those who know these cars are familiar with the battery acid corrosion problems in the right front floorboard and frame rail. There is pretty severe corrosion in that area. There is also some rust in the rockers and the driver's side floorboard. There is virtually no rust other than that. See photos. Original color is green as can be seen in a few of the pictures. It cranks, runs, and drives great. I hate to sell it, but I'm moving to Chattanooga for work and won't have a garage to store it in. I also don't have the time, money, or expertise to make the repairs to the areas affected by rust. I have receipts for all of the work on this list and more.

Good stuff:

Black 14" Enkei 92's from the 80's in great shape

New tires

New Eibach lowering springs

New adjustable Tokico Illumina shocks

New polyurethane bushings throughout the suspension

Custom 6x9 speaker box across the rear panel. It's wired up but the speakers aren't currently installed -- they will go with the car.

New 3-point retractable seatbelts

Headlight relay (takes the amp load off the headlight switch which causes them to fail and they're super expensive to have rebuilt. Also reduces voltage drop, making the headlights a whole lot brighter)

New clutch slave cylinder

New battery

Bad stuff:

Needs work on the right front frame rail and floor pan

Could also use rockers and driver's floor pan

Has some minor dings and bondo

Some panels have clear coat peeling, some have newer paint

For sale locally in Knoxville and Chattanooga, TN. Local pick up only, no delivery.

Paypal or cash accepted.

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This father and son duo terrorize the UK countryside in Datsun 240Z pair

Wed, 12 Nov 2014

The Datsun 240Z got a lot of things right when it was introduced, with handsome styling, strong performance and a reasonably affordable price. And while the coupes grew a strong fan base in the US, they remained quite a rarity in the UK. Decades later, a father and son in England have latched onto the car and bonded over their shared love for two completely opposite takes on this Japanese GT
There's already quite a collection of exotics in Mel Streek's garage, and his rat rod 240Z, which he calls the Ratsun, definitely doesn't fit with the rest. On the outside, the Datsun looks ready to fall apart, but it's mechanically perfect underneath. Alternatively, Mel's son, Ollie, has a completely different take for his Z with its perfect, shining paint.
Both Zs sound amazing, though. They have a mechanical, somewhat course exhaust note that's intoxicating to hear. You can definitely tell there's some work going on under the hood. Check out this video from Petrolicious for a father and son who both find something to love in these classic Japanese coupes.

Fiat contemplating sub-brand to compete with Dacia, Datsun

Tue, 05 Feb 2013

You can add Fiat to the admittedly short list of automakers considering a low-cost brand to rival Dacia. The inexpensive Eastern European brand from Renault-Nissan has performed on the balance sheet like a premium model line, and the money the alliance is taking off the table is encouraging other players to deal themselves in. Pretty soon Nissan's Datsun sub-brand will join the Dacia party, going on sale in Russia, Indonesia and India and will claim even more rubles, rupiahs and rupees for the parent company. Volkswagen recently said it will make a decision this year on a budget line for the Chinese market. With the euthanasia of Lancia and plans to move the Fiat brand upmarket, company CEO Sergio Marchionne wonders aloud to Automotive News Europe whether there could be room for a new budget brand underneath Fiat.
We're told that the initiative has been in the idea box for five years and even moved to the stage of name considerations, like Innocenti, but worries about profit kept it from realization. If such a range were to be developed, Marchionne says it couldn't be built in Italy and stay within budget, and the company is "analyzing its manufacturing capacity outside of Europe to see if a low-cost brand is viable."

Datsun reveals new On-Do budget sedan in Russia [w/video]

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When Nissan revived the Datsun brand name, it essentially hit the "undo" button on the rebranding it undertook decades ago. But this time, the Datsun name is being used solely as a budget brand for developing markets. The reborn marque launched in India this past July with its Go hatchback, returned in September with the Go+ minivan and revealed the Redi-Go concept just last month. And now it's back again with the new On-Do sedan.
Launched in Moscow by CEO Carlos Ghosn, the On-Do was designed and engineered in Japan specifically for the Russian market - Nissan's fifth largest worldwide - where it will be built at the AvtoVaz plant in Togliatti. Decidedly budget-oriented, the Datsun On-Do is a four-door, five-seat econo-box measuring 172 inches long, 67 inches wide and 60 inches tall with an 18.7 cubic-foot trunk which Datsun describes as class-leading. Punctuating an otherwise bland shape is a large front grille and lighting front and rear that looks (and very well might be) bigger than the wheels.
Not that the Datsun On-Do needs a big contact patch to transfer power to the road: motivation is provided by a 1.6-liter engine with a grand total of - wait for it... wait a little longer - 87 horsepower. Which might strike you as a reasonable amount of muscle, considering the 400,000 rubles Datsun is getting for the On-Do (but consider that translates to about $11,300). That's a couple grand more than what Nissan gets for the Micra in that other giant northern country, or about the same amount it gets for the Versa in the US (which sells in Russia for 499k in rubles) - both of which are powered by what is in all likelihood the same 1.6-liter four but producing 109 hp. Of course Russia has different tax rates than the United States or Canada, but with such little power, the Datsun would fall into Russia's lowest tax bracket.

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