The
24 Hours of LeMons race at
Thunderhill usually features wild and zany cars like these, seen at the
May 8 event. Zcar owner/racer Wade W is entering a tasteful BRE-style 240z for the upcoming August 8-9 race. Wade is an accomplished road racer with 6 previous Lemons events completed and a top finish at 18th place.
The ZCG crew is helping build the car with drivers Scott S, Mike O, Josh C, and Wade. The chassis with no drive train, interior and a broken suspension was donated. In order to save money, the drivetrain, suspension, wheels, tires, gauges, and seat is coming from the 280ZX Lemons car that met it’s untimely end at the Thunderhill event in May this year. The roof was cut off the 280ZX to remove the cage then Paul Moor cut the roof off the 240Z to re-install it. Almost everything from the dead 280ZX was used to resurrect this rusty basket case of a 240Z!
Our good friends at William’s Autobody threw some paint on the car with left-over paint in the classic BRE pattern for free and saved time by not prepping the body for spray beforehand 🙂
Josh at ZCG helped remove the interior, every bit counts in the weight reduction process.
The license plate is a bit optimistic, a proper L-series will fill this engine bay
Stay tuned for more updates on the build-up and let’s wish the team good luck on race day!
[…] the full report HERE. Details on the 1973 Datsun 240z “BRE tribute” build can be found HEREThe crew at ZCG is lending a hand again with track prep and logistics. Returning drivers are Wade W, […]