Datsun 240Z | Buyer # 39; Guide
1970 Datsun 240Z sports car from Japan.
With the exception of its wheels aftermarket, this 1970 240Z belonging to Bob Wieda East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, is original.
Made in Japan was still an epithet in 1970, stands for a copy of poor quality of the real thing So it is little wonder that the automotive world has been on collective ear with the Datsun 240Z For the first once, fans put aside their prejudices and threw dollars at dealerships to buy a dealer of Japanese sports cars have played along, denying the choice of color and adding options like spare wheels and tires, and that blatant margins that pushed the actual selling price of the 3526 MSRP up to 5,500 but the customers came, saw and bought anyway, with an enthusiasm that modern Nissan desperately hope to find.
The 240Z wasn t the first company of his sports car in 1600 and 2000 roadsters won races, if not the fervent loyalty of the likes of MG and Triumph Roadsters were too cramped and primitive as MGB, and developed only a public modest coverage of its paris, Datsun 240Zs sold side by side with roadsters in 1970, hoping to sell Zs 1600 per month once production capacity approaching But the Z so that, for 1971 Datsun halted production roadster at the end of this year, the 240Z sales exceeded 2000 by months and years used Zs were selling for more than their original retail price.
The 240Z was different from open cars, sharing its assembly plant and sugar scoop headlights rather than the cam head U-series four-cylinder used in the roadster 2 0 liter usz cars have an extended version of the 510 sedan the series, aluminum-head motor April 2 liter straight-six shared bore and stroke, rods, bearings, valvetrain and a cam driven by a duplex chain with setting 1 8 liters to which four fed the 510 with higher compression pistons, larger intake valves, the timing of more radical cam and a pair of Hitachi-SU carburetors, it was evaluated to 150 horsepower at 6000 rpm, with a red line 7000-rpm.
Only a four-speed manual transmission was available in the first row A was automatic three-speed offered in 1971. A promised five-speed manual like the roadster 2000 but never delivered in America, despite its availability in Europe and Japan with if the hot sales in the States, there wasn t much incentive to add five more costly COG while the rear live axle was king, Z suspension was fully independent MacPherson struts were used in a lower front arm with helical spring struts, in the back were improved 510 of rear suspension of the rear semi-solid disc brakes front arm and drum rear fins cast iron were considered more than enough in 1970.
The interior was free, but not the naked amateurs liked the tachometer and speedometer in separate nacelles directly in front of the driver, with three pods on the dashboard above the console reserved for least gauges and clock Two thin buckets, wearing vinyl were hot things to the time, as the console, the steering wheel has a wood plastic thin rim, and square recesses in its three wire spokes imitated lightening holes a person in traditional sports car wheel Datsun even thought of adding a dead pedal.
Driving the acceleration which is 240Z reveals tests today middle of the pack in 1970 reported 0-60 times 8 7 seconds with a quarter mile into 17 one second to 84 5 mph, but the six-cylinder is smooth beautifully The unactivated rack and pinion steering feels truckish at slow speeds, but the car lighter moves faster and Z shows a moderate but relentless understeer, at least at highway speeds.
As a note to the history of the original Z, Nissan reintroduced the car in the States in 1997, selling refurbished about 50 cars car carrying a 12 month 12,000 mile limited warranty, and included a review complete powertrain, an all-new interior, repaired or replaced brightwork and trim, increased sound insulation, a larger-scale cooling system and an improved sub-layer.
1970 Datsun 240Z The original Japanese sports car Autoweek, 1970 Datsun 240z, original.