Recently, I got a very nice clay model of the HS30-H Fairlady Z-G blunt nose. But this story started 7 years ago, in May 2019, when an Australian JDM-parts-dealer shared this on his Facebook page. I was immediately hooked. Could it be an actual clay model from the design-phase of the G-Nose? I started to go through my archive, and discovered that Nissan Indeed used 1:1 scale clay-models for styling and “rapid prototyping” by the standards of the 60ies. In 1965, they switched to 1:4-scale clay models: They were used for flow testing in Wind-tunnels, water-channels and also for designing the exterieur. I contacted the seller, but he told me…

So, I collected and got gifted a lot of cool stuff again over the recent weeks, and I have more updates coming in the next days … First, I finally got a set of good reproduction Carb insulators for the Mikuni 44 PHH’s thanks to my man Glenn who helped me with those! He was also kind enough to put a few nice freebies, like the 2026 JCCS calendar and a BRE fan into the box. Thanks mate! I also got an original admission ticket from the 1969 Tokyo Motor show, where the S30 was shown first. This will go nicely into a frame next to the S30.world museum opening…

Time for another update: After some weeks of waiting, finally the Bride MO seat rails arrived. After studying various solutions, and by wanting to keep it Japanese, I ended up with the bride MO type rails: A first check to see if they fit in the car, showed it all works well: Next step: Fit them to the seats: I used some existing holes, but need to drill a few new ones. So this is all just a quick mockup to see if it all fits: First result looks good. One problem I noticed is that the door handle will touch the seat so it needs to go slightly higher…

I’ve been collecting stuff again. But this time there are some more exclusive items than usual: First, a French “Sport-Auto” magazine. I usually don’t buy random magazines with Z-reports inside. But this one features a quite special car. Not the original Fender Top mounted turn signals. It appears to be a car with quite an interesting mix of parts. and I will definitely have to look at this one closer. Maybe it will also end up in my Knowledge-post about the Development of the European spec cars. It could be one of those rare early prototypes, seen here. Then, I got a Japanese Fairlady Z parts manual, which includes the…

I have been doing loads of small things over the Christmas holidays, and also got many deliveries of recently acquired stuff. Let’s take a closer look at what happened in the past few days. First, I got various deliveries of Books from Japan fore some nice holiday-season reads: But then I thought i should better do some actual work on the car. So I installed the passenger seat: It’s actually the first time I can sit inside the car since 12 years or so. The reason I installed this car, was to figure out which route to go with the seats (OEM or aftermarket) and find a suitable solution for…

Yesterday, the postman delivered a big package from Japan again. This time with a load of cool documents. The first one (Bottom right) is the Race and Rally preparation manual. I bought this one for a friend, since I already own one. But it’s always cool to see those. The second one is a combined S30S(A) / GS30S(A) brochure for the standard Fairlady Z / Z-L and the 2by2 versions. See also Color samples at the bottom right: For whatever reason, one of the Japanese lots included a US-Market 240Z Brochure. Not something I would usually buy, but since I didn’t have it in printed form yet it’s cool to…