SourApple Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 Why can't I find any other Citrus Green 280 ZXs on the net? http://charlottesville.craigslist.org/cto/3234004855.html For that matter, why can't I figure out how to post a photo right here (X)? Link to comment
crackerjack69 Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 You paste an img from an appropriate host (photobucket, tumblr, etc.) Link to comment
ArchetypeDatsun Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 I believe fewer than 100 or so were made, it even made on some old movies like, the incredible shrinking woman, things are tough all over & t.j. hooker. I seen one other one on craigslist in the bay area a while back but it had black hub cabs and matching green interior parts. Link to comment
SourApple Posted August 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 So there's one on the West Coast (possibly the Midori?) and mine on the East Coast. Could an upset of this delicate balance be what the Mayans had in mind? The factory colors were Citrus outside and Black inside, so maybe there's a clone running around. Link to comment
ArchetypeDatsun Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 I doubt there's a clone unless someone really loved that color, I'm not a big fan of the color but because it's factory I would leave it the way it is. These are more rare than 10th anniversary 1980 Black & Red or Black & Gold around 2000 of those were made and 500 of those were the black & red I believe. Also the 79 280zx-R are rare too but on the west coast I've seen like almost 10 of them and they made 1001 of those. The only thing I have of a 280zx-R that I was lucky to buy is the rear whale tail spoiler that was never installed. Link to comment
SourApple Posted September 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 You know, the rarity and the ballsiness of the color really grows on you. I'm serious! I've gotten such an attitude around high-end frou-frou cars in my area, and only an unaltered Porsche 356 humbled me. When I drive my Honda Oddyssey, it's like being invisible. Did I happen to mention I'd trade it for a light colored Goldwing? I've had a recurring dream about a light colored Goldwing. Link to comment
ArchetypeDatsun Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 I know of a guy who use to come get a drink back when I was a bartender who told me he picked up a goldwing that was sitting at a shitty motel for almost a year and he picked It up. Found another ZX but this one needs work asking price is a bit much. http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/cto/3231150867.html Link to comment
Skib Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 you cant find any because there almost non existent. they where not a regular production model. there where only about 100 made Link to comment
ArchetypeDatsun Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Yep by looking at the condition of the last post I did I'm pretty sure most are in that condition or gone. Link to comment
SourApple Posted September 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Hey 541, thanks for the link. I just called the # and talked to the now former owner for over an hour. He sold the car to a guy named Don who lives in San Francisco area. Interesting factoid: Datsun ran out of engine blocks in '79 and didn't have enough to cover orders. They substituted Mercedes blocks to fill the order, but ONLY put that engine in the Citrus Green models since there was a smaller demand for that particular color. Not all of the Citrus Greens have a Benz motor (mine does NOT), but the one 541 posted supposedly did, the former owner tells me. Link to comment
ArchetypeDatsun Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Hmm that's interesting, you really won't know if it was true until you see it. As far as I know no way Datsun shared engines with any other manufacture it could have been aftermarket swap. I know Benz had a straight 6 with the same displacement as the Datsun L6. Link to comment
Skib Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 the former owner tells me. hes full of shit. Link to comment
SourApple Posted September 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Aww Skib, that's the response he said everyone would have. And he was so friendly... he only mentioned secret government conspiracy theories three or four times but not once did he mention alien abductions. Link to comment
Skib Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 lol I had an old datsun guy try and tell me there was no such thing as an L26 before, after I mentioned thats what I had in my Z. he swore up and down there was no such thing..... I had to show him the stamp on the block. Iv heard lots of storys from old POs ect that are whimsical and ignorant. show me pics of the motor with the matching numbers body tag and Ill believe it, until then hes just another dude tellin storys. cuz thers a lot of those Link to comment
Skib Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 thats all L motor........ Link to comment
ArchetypeDatsun Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Yep it's funny because there's plenty of those guys around here. Link to comment
wildmaninid Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 My truck had a shortage of blocks when I did my ka swap, so i had to put a mexican ka block in.......... Link to comment
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