Well, I finally picked her up. Here's some pics. 1st thing to do is get her running. Besides replacing all the fluids and hand cranking the motor to check nothing is ziesed up, is there anything else you guys would recommend doing before starting her up. Thanks.

 

Nice. Now it may be the low res on my monitor but is that ZXR missing a wing?

 

looks great... not too bad of shape... looks like its got a lil lower front end damage but all in all it looks great.. specially the clean dash... but the only thing i dont like is they put a sun roof on the car....

 

It does have the rear wing and also a front air dam that got all jacked up when unloading the car from the auto dolly.

 

Yup, I had the sunroof put on back when I first bought the car. I'm the original and third owner. I'm debating on keeping the sunroof or restoring it back to a slick top.

 

slick top!!! slick top!!! slick top!!! stay original with such a rare Z.

 

My advise .. dump the front airdam as it is not stock... make it slicktop, loose the steeringwheel put in a OEM radio... You want these stock!!!

Funny im the second owner on my car

 

Give Me The Steering Wheel!

 

That dash is looking sweet for it's age are there any cracks. Nice car I leave the sun roof until you decide to do a full scale restoration. I think otherwise the boy's will never let ya here the end of it. My friend put a sunroof in his 1969 Mach one no wait he said the po installed it, I told him I thought it was beat. The car has since been stolen so maybe the sunroof Will help recover it (but I doubt it).

 

I can understand how most would think it sacrilegious to restore such a rare car to anything other than stock, but I've been wanting to mod this car back since I first bought it in 79. Steering wheel, sunroof, air dam where all done by me back then. Also had some AR Libre on the car when I had it. Next in line were performance and suspension mods but marriage and family kinda put everything on hold. Besides the wing and the stipes, is there anything else that identifies the car as a ZXR, i.e. vin number?

 

there is the badging. if you have good ones get them to a vinal shop so they can make you spares and while your at it get more and sell to people who need them or who are doing a zxr clone.

 

Man... if I got my hands on a ZXR... the shell would be restored perfect, but I'd be dropping in a HIGHLY modified L28ET.

 

id do what NismoPick said. id restore the body and interior to all origional and just do a turbo swap.. there werent that many of those cars made and the only thing that says its a ZXR is its exterior... if you want to mod a ZX id say pick up a turbo 280ZX its just so hard to find a good ZXR like the on you have...

 

Haha says who i have one like that aswel they are a dime a dozen LOL

Yeah decal kits !! im up for a set ... im talking to a shop allready

 

I MIGHT WANT A SET FROM YA BUT I'LL MAKE MY z A 280RZX

 

i should get the decal set and make a clone, my car IS already done AND silver!!! that and its modified too!!

 

wonder how my car would look if it had ZXR ghost graphics......

 

Dude... Do NOT Mess with your car!! It's looks awesome just the way it is.

Rod.

 

I agree fully, but the idea of ghost emblems has me thinking.... more to follow on that.

 

ive just been throwin some ideas around here and there on to what i want to do with my car.. as soon as i could save enough money im planning on getting it repainted one LAST time... most of you cant see it but the car was Keyed a few years ago and theres no way i could just touch it up... id have to repaint the entire car over again.. so.... before i do get the paint job... im gonna play around with some ideas first before i actually paint my car one last time... but yeah... the ghost graphics were just a thought... =)

 

i'm not a huge fan of flames on a z but if you can ghost some with the zxr added into the flames that would look pretty sick. I'll try to photochop some up.

 

I disagree. I think a set of ghost ZXR decals looks pretty sick based on what you have there. Just gotta make sure the ZXR ghosting colors compliment the rest of the car.
On a side note, you have some pretty damn good photo editing skills there, Ice.

 

Dude you just showed me the way. ZXR with the MSA body kit. It is the MSA body kit, correct?

 

thanks man!!!!

 

yeah it didnt come out too bad.. but if i were to actually do it.. i wouldnt get decals but have them painted on.. then clear coated over... instead of the blue id go with a darker charcole gray with a black pin strip and the rest of the car silver... the black would match the black rubber ZXR wing.. it might actually look pretty sick.. you might also wanna concider doing the turbo swap too... make it better than the origional ZXR...

by they way it is the MSA AERO KIT II