paging the Datsun museum...
 

Could there be a nicer example??

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1972-datsun-240z-382/

That Z is probably one of a few that can actually claim "no rust anywhere!"
I don't care for the color combination, but it is in very pristine driver shape.

If a guy (or gal) was restoring a '72 240Z, these pictures would be a treasure trove if originality was the goal!!

Looks exactly like my 73, including the wheel caps.

Until I worked on it…

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1768189620.jpg

Always a fan of the 240z. The 280 started losing my attention. After that? I just didn't care.

Sold for $76k. Seems like a lot--but everything seems like a lot of $$ lately.

I watched it too, honestly, I thought it was going to go to 6 figures.

I had a lot of these cars and have been lusting for another for a decade now. Random chance, the channel through which all of my best cars have been purchased, has not smiled on me in this time.

Yep. Really nice example but it sold for a bit less than my Cayman GTS which is 5x more car. I would have figured around $40k max. Somebody really wanted it.

yeah, that's a stupid high. I thought those excess buying days were diminishing..

My dad had a '72 240Z in 1972, it was brown metallic with headers and the exact slotted aluminum wheels shown as coming with that auction as extra rims. He truly loved that car and only gave it up for a new '74 E-type roadster with wire wheels. both cars were 4-speed manuals.

I have great memories of driving the Z as a 15 year old, it was really responsive. We were talking about it in 2014 before the old man died, my dad said, "that thing went like a MFer." :)

Actually, it was on the cheap side for what it is. Many have gone for 6-figures, not sure what happened here. And the value of collector cars has nothing to do with how they perform next to some common production sports car from 2026.

Jay Leno in a Chevy swapped 240 z
 

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