kain

13bt to the rescue., stock engine, stand alone, and a gt35r and some 1800 pimaries, 1600cc seccondaries and your good to go.

d0nfry

that car needs to be crushed and recycled to scrap metal. wtf would you buy that ----

90dx

If it is a solid rust free car that price doesnt look too bad.I guess it depends on what they are worth in your area but where i live they are worth good money.I would ****** that up in a second as I love 240's

davcivic

That's the thing I haven't even seen one for sale around here, not a 240 anyways, you might see the older 280z but not a 240z.

what would be better getting a CRX and turboing it or maybe a hatch?
been there, done that....
I like old cars and this thing looks cool...

salesmonkey

i always find the cheapest cars in florida. in florida, imo, the car market is a lot lower then everywhere especially washington. not saying you cant find a good deal here. just the market as a whole

Tom-Guy

Oxymoron; you just contradicted yourself, son.

When I was working at Auto Solutions, and playing with Triumphs, one of my coworkers was a 240/260Z fanatic. We traded cars a couple of times. We were both well versed in how rust manifests by the time we parted ways.

Long story short: the rust is about ten times worse than it looks on the outside. Rust bubbles in FL humidity probably mean it's potato chip consistency and you can shove a screwdriver through the bubbled area and probably for an inch or so around it. It's good to see that the doors aren't rotted out towards the bottoms, make sure you pull back carpet and poke good and hard at the floorboard with a screwdriver. Run a magnet over the body to hunt for bondo stuffed in rotted out holes - car is old; single valence non-treated body panels mean the car has had enough time to rot into the ground 3.5 times since it rolled off the showroom floor.

240's are going for a lot of skrill if the mechanicals are original and such, and the car is clean. If you like it, get it, but keep price worth the headache. If you don't think you can fix it (rust! not mechanicals!) or maintain it then pass it by and hope someone older who owns a garage to store it in picks it up and preserves it.

Personally, if it's not worth keeping original and you want to play with it, I'd get a 280Z engine and stuff one of the Maxima diesel cranks into it. 3.2 liter stroker, IIRC, MMMMMM yummy.

davcivic

Yeah that's why I said my brother-in-law was there to check it, he is a body/paint man. He checked the bubles, we went behind them, and I'm talking about 3 bubles about 1/4 inch around, it's solid, well those buble spots have to be taken care off, but it's still not going thru. The car has no carpet right now, you can see the whole floor, nothing bad. Looked under the car, looks solid.

The no rust Florida car comment makes sense when you compare it to any snow/salt state. I know there's better states for old cars, dry and warm, but this isn't bad. The humid weather isn't as bad as the snow. If it was a close to the beach car then I would worry, but this guys has owned it for a while, 10+years in Central Florida.

If I do get it, it will be fixed up as a complete restoration, slowly, no rush, a lot of things would be replaced, most to factory/stock specs, except for the heart of it. Engine will probably change, depending on my research. Maybe the stocker can be bumped up to something nice, just not stock.

Tom-Guy

Sweet, sounds like a good car. If you're really into it... walk up with cash and see how much you can beat the guy down.

turboDA6

those cars are sweet, ive seen them go for 20+ with rb26dett's in them. no smog, possibilities are endless.

J-SMITH69

no way in hell you should pay 3k for that car.

leeann paid 200 for hers with a new engine