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Good Evening all, I found this site following suggestion from Datsun Tim, having posted some pictures of my recent Roadster purchase on FB . It is a 1968 SR311, bought at private auction in Japan. It is silver with a blue hardtop and red interior. I have never seen a Roadster in the flesh and bought this based on one photo. I started my love affair with Z cars when I bought a1991 300zx Z32, TT 2+2 in 2003 I then bought a 1995 300zx TT SWB Z32 slicktop, then a lovely 1981 280zx with only 6K miles on the engine from brand new, then i bought a 2005 350Z Gran Turisimo limited edition. I was thinking to buy a 240Z or the Roadster, Roadster won. The car is now on a boat to Dublin Ireland where I live and should get it end of Feb. I am very excited with the purchase, but did get a bit disheartened with some of the Datsun experts comments on my pictures, seems there are some anomalies and things not correct with the car. I will try get the pics up here but am not too tech savvy. Patricia

Welcome and congratulations on your new acquisition. We are here to help. If you like you can send a link to your pictures and I will help post them. I left FaceBook and never was a fan. Looking forward to seeing your roadster.

Steve

Cant wait to see the pics. As with everything associated with Facebook, take it with a grain of salt.

Welcome Patricia, very nice car. They are jealous .).) Japanese aesthetics are not for eveyone.
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Welcome! I've been drooling over your car from your facebook posts. I can't wait for you to get the car and get some more pics! The correctness only applies if you're going for a museum/exact stock example. As long as you enjoy it keep it!

Welcome Patricia, Happy to see you here

Hello. Congratulations on the purchase, how exciting!

Welcome Patricia,
We all are JEALOUS of your new acquisition especially of your hardtop. In the USA, I would guess that greater than 50% of all owners prefer making the car their own with slight modifications, another 10-25% prefer Resto-Mods ie highly modified cars with either body, suspension and or engine swaps.
I, personally have 3 roadsters, 2 with engine swaps and a low number 67.5 2L, SRL311-00148

Even my 67.5 2L has a Modified Suspension, shorten RX7 rear axle, "1500" grille and Toyota VooDoo Blue paint. I promised myself that modifications to that car would be reversible, but the list of modifications keeps growing.... LOL.

Its your car, ENJOY THE RIDE.

PS A Restored car has had the most value in the past, but RESTO-MODS of 240Zs are eclipsing Restored examples, so the market might be changing.

Maybe that's because Restored Japanese Cars are still vastly under valued.

Amen brother!

You found the right site. For the most part, these are not pristine collectors cars. They are cars that are used and enjoyed. I think for a lot of us, the goal is the as-new car but the reality falls quite short.

Ireland is one of my favorite countries. The countryside can only be enhanced by seeing it from the open top of a roadster.

Hello fellow European! The people on here know there stuff, so its the right place.

Thank you all for the warm welcome, I forget where I have joined up, as it is still abour 4 weeks before I receive my Roadster from Japan. I have just found out that it will be the first SR311 in Ireland and the UK. Excited