Down to bare metal

[badq45t]

LOL! Yes for sure it was too orange and you couldn't really tell that from the brochure, it wasn't until I saw one in person that I was like ERRR no. Thankfully back in 84' I had ordered a Non-Turbo (insurance on a Turbo for a 23 year dude was 5k) with analog/cloth and T-Tops as that fit into my budget better. That was mid-January 1984..2 weeks later the dealership got a big load of new Z's and my brother was driving past the dealers and called me to go have a look (of course when he got home no cell phones then). I drove down and saw a Red and Maroon both had the leather/digital packages and knew immediatley I didn't like like the Red but the maroon with maroon interior was sweet. Made a deal on the stop to up my ante to the only package other than T-Tops. I am super glad that I got that package, yes the digital stuff created more issues over time but the seats are amazing to this day and leather holds up way better than cloth.

[TWA88T]

Thanks man, yea love the red, funny thing is my wife and I looked at the 1000s of red color swatches at the paint shop, and picked the one we liked... turns out it was a Nissan 350z red.... which made it even better... yea I definitely wanted a new red the original "Aztec red" the Z was looked way too orange to me.

Maybe its time to update the tag line, it's been on there for probably a decade.

[badq45t]

Love the color, funny if that original red had been that color when I bought mine in 1984 I may have gone with it, I was looking for fire-engine red and 84's red wasn't thus i went with maroon. Looks great, I love you tag line that Nissan had it right 30 years ago, for me it was 38 years ago January when I saw a new Z in the showroom as I drove by and banged a U-turn to fall immediately in love with the car.

[TWA88T]

Ohh yea.. can anyone post a Pic how this rear lock assembly is supposed to go together....

[TWA88T]

I'm not dead.. trying to get car done by end of May, for the summer driving season.

[badq45t]

Getting closer gotta feel good, keep posting!

[TWA88T]

[TWA88T]

[TWA88T]

Finally made it into the paint booth!

[badq45t]

Agreed, that looks like your making progress

[TWA88T]

Getting closer

[Z_Karma]

You can always upload them here, it's a bit cumbersome and it's bugged, in that the first time you try and "send it to the server" it fails, but works on the second try and it's limited to 5 images per post (edit: increased to 10 images).

You can use imgur and hotlink the images still. But the trick to it is that after you upload an image to imgur (either a created acct or with no acct) right click the image and select the option "open image in new tab" Then go to that tab and use that URL for linking, that way it will display the image, free of the link or redirect back to imgur.

i think the images that are uploaded are resized or optimized in the forum settings somewhere, but as a habit i always use Irvanview to batch edit a folder of images i want to upload here and resize/optimize them before uploading (1600*1200 and 80% typically) this helps save server space and makes for faster loading.

[TWA88T]

I have a ton more pics to share.. Anyone know a good pic hosting site... Photo bucket is garbage now.

[mwolvinm]

Stop it--- I may have to stop and visit Jim, Jack, or Evan this evening!!!

[TWA88T]

It was either that or i Jimmy a beam across there to help lift.