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1973 Datsun 240Z #1669258
30/12/2023 11:52
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Try this out for a restoration by the legendary Swiss guy "My Mechanics"

"I make a new one"


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Re: 1973 Datsun 240Z [Re: Edinburgh] #1669261
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He had it easy. Look at the 260Z that Yorkshire Car Restoration are rebuilding (well, until they decided to rebuild if with stupid flared arches and rebuild the boot floor; I like original!)

I miss my 240Z, thirty years on...

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Re: 1973 Datsun 240Z [Re: Edinburgh] #1669265
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I will.

Don't tell me you already know of My Mechanics as well as CEE Neil shocked


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Re: 1973 Datsun 240Z [Re: Edinburgh] #1669295
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Re: 1973 Datsun 240Z [Re: Edinburgh] #1669296
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Have you seen MM's work so far Neil? Not forgetting his Insights channel where various stages are tackled - the dent-pulling is particularly fascinating.


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Re: 1973 Datsun 240Z [Re: Edinburgh] #1669300
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You see everybody, YORKSHIRE !!

A proper place, not like some weirdo place like on the Avon or Severn.

Re: 1973 Datsun 240Z [Re: PaulL] #1669302
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Originally Posted by PaulL
not like some weirdo place like on the Avon or Severn.


Tread carefully there Paul laugh


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Re: 1973 Datsun 240Z [Re: Edinburgh] #1669307
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We're not weird on the Severn, webbed feet is natural down here, lol

Re: 1973 Datsun 240Z [Re: PaulL] #1669327
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Originally Posted by PaulL
You see everybody, YORKSHIRE !!

A proper place, not like some weirdo place like on the Avon or Severn.


I tried to go and visit them a couple of visits ago, before they changed premises. Unfortunately Google didn't know about them, but did know about another restoration company with a very similar name, also in Yorkshire. Joe will attest that there was some confusion for a while laugh

MM Simon? Whodat?


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Re: 1973 Datsun 240Z [Re: Edinburgh] #1669329
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Neil, My Mechanics.

I see what you mean about the 260Z restoration, it is totally insane; I would happily believe the entire car was actually manufactured in "filler" , with some accident repairs using metal patches shocked

It's a different, more realistic in many ways, world in YRC to the clinically sanitised one of My Mechanics; having said that they are both superbly skilled.

I really admire the tenacity of the Yorkshire chap after trawling through well over 2 dozen of their videos although I'm not keen on the banal chat and constant musack behind the scenes, you don't get that in MM.


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Re: 1973 Datsun 240Z [Re: Edinburgh] #1669332
03/01/2024 08:48
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MM: I realised just now... and yes, I have.

I know what you mean about the background musak on YRC; drives me crazy. But then, you and I were brought up in more genteel times laugh

Steve - the father - has a better delivery than son Ryan; less about how absolutely disastrous it is and more about the shaping and fitting. But they're both pretty good, though Joe tells me they weld in the wrong direction.

MM's Z is barely rusty, to be honest; California car? My 240 had more rust than that in 1986.


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Re: 1973 Datsun 240Z [Re: Edinburgh] #1669333
03/01/2024 09:29
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Yes the kind climate was a factor in the purchase I think.

It's the pursuit of 'perfection' which is intriguing - it seems there are limitless resources though.

I liked the dry ice application for removing sound-deadening laugh


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