Hi
Thanks Mike - the trouble with these guys is they're very afraid of
alienating their readership - I guess they have more subscribers who own
Sunbeam Alpines than those with Datsun Roadsters - with that in mind I
thought it was a great article.
Coincidentally I have today received the transparencies from C&SC - they
include some nice angles not shown in the mag. I'll scan them at work early
next week and add them to the site v.soon, along with some nice
transparencies of the same car in a Practical Classics article around 5 years
ago.
There's been a little stink caused by one of the datsun Z photos in the same
mag profiling Fourways, the well known Datsun Z/Aston Martin restorers.
Apparently, the firm told Mick Walsh, the Editor in Chief of C&SC, that the Z
was a genuine Fairlady Z432-R (the super rare twin cam racing version of the
very rare Z432) and he quoted this in the mag. These are as rare as rocking
horse poo in Japan, let alone anywhere else in the world. I'd previously
heard that Fourways had a twin cam S-20 engine kicking around for some while,
and the donor car, a bog standard Fairlady ZL 2.0, which they've had for even
longer. Replica or fake, it's not quite what it said on the tin and it's
upset the guy who is having it built. He's a great guy who would never dream
of passing it off as the genuine article. Egg on face of probably the best
known Z restorers in the UK.
Rob
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