I really, really want one of these

The ride height is a joke, but otherwise I just can't help thinking this is the coolest car I've seen in ages. I would love to do something like this myself (although with an original 69 Skyline), but I lack both the mechanical skills and freedom from having to answer to a wife and daughter...

http://speedhunters.com/archive/2009/11/04/car-feature-gt-gt-that-240z.aspx

That's cool. So's this:

if you get it up a tad higher, the arches won't fit as smoothly as they do now, and it'll never look as awesome.

ascona wrote:if you get it up a tad higher, the arches won't fit as smoothly as they do now, and it'll never look as awesome.

To me, it would. It's a rat-rod, so it isn't the ride-height that makes it, it's the general attitude of the car (courtesy of looking so beat up).

nice looking rat rod. needs more power though to go with the looks. wayyyy more power.

I remember seeing that same S30 on the Motor Mavens website. pretty cool shit, ride height, offset and all. That makes it for me.
but i personally would not leave it looking so beat up. they're pretty cars, and it would look soooo much better if it was clean.

that 2000GT is money though.

Turbojett wrote:I remember seeing that same S30 on the Motor Mavens website. pretty cool shit, ride height, offset and all. That makes it for me.
but i personally would not leave it looking so beat up. they're pretty cars, and it would look soooo much better if it was clean.

that 2000GT is money though.

I get the aesthetic appeal of that 240, but I'm more on Turbojetts side here - I'd rather it were cleaned up and polished to look like new. Plus those wheels need to go.

I like the idea of owning a rat rod. Dodge has the right idea.

thewalrus wrote:

Turbojett wrote:I remember seeing that same S30 on the Motor Mavens website. pretty cool shit, ride height, offset and all. That makes it for me.
but i personally would not leave it looking so beat up. they're pretty cars, and it would look soooo much better if it was clean.

that 2000GT is money though.

I get the aesthetic appeal of that 240, but I'm more on Turbojetts side here - I'd rather it were cleaned up and polished to look like new. Plus those wheels need to go.

the wheels aren't so bad, but I'd have gone with a set of Wats myself. They go good on basically every pre-90's car from Japan.

VS wrote:I like the idea of owning a rat rod. Dodge has the right idea.

as for the z, saw it a while ago on the 240net boards, and it got generally the same reception, some hated it because it wasn't restored, most loved its unique raw-ness.

I side with the later.

I like it but wouldn't want to own it. Always wanted a white 240Z in original condition (maybe with retrimmed leather seats).

And my previous post wasn't trying to compare the 2000GT to the 240 or anything - I just thought it was awesome to have that car and the Stratos in the same pic.

the 240Z and 2000GT were done by the same guy, though. It was Goertz, wasn't it?

Goertz worked with Datsun before taking his design to Toyota, so the 240Z is really an in-house design.

yeah i read up on it. the 2000GT was originally supposed to be a Nissan, co-developed with Yamaha, but Nissan scrapped it and then Yamaha took it to Toyota.