I'm going to agree with Steve on that one and also leave it at that (except it was the A box and not the B). I actually sat in (Greg wouldn't let any of us drive it except for Arty Annetts for some reason that's escaped me as it's over 30 years ago) the first 240Z delivered to Lennock Motors in Canberra, but I actually drove the first one delivered to Boorowa (NSW) back to Canberra as some rich farmer type dude bought it on sight and Greg had only stuck in the showroom over there for the exposure (beats me why, Boorowa was a hick town then and still is now but we sold a lot of cars from there). It was dropped off the transporter direct so we hadn't done the full pre-delivery on it. I recall that I was rapped and wanted one with a passion, but they weren't cheap (something like $4800 on road plus insurance etc) so I had to be content with my 1200 Coupe which cost around $2500 on road which I finally got enough cash together to purchase it in early 71. I bought my first 1600 in '72 and my mum wrote it off but it was bought back off GIO and rebuilt by some crowd in Wagga and now it's down on the South Coast (NSW) all restored and looks great and the rego plate is MR510 if anyone has seen it.
Anyhow, I'm waffling here, point of the email is that it had a 5 speed box, carpets heater, PB radio, radials and a few other things no doubt out of the box from Capital Motors - the Boorowa car also would run up to 120mph and beyond too and handled like it was on rails, but the steering was heavy a low speeds, you got a workout parking it - I sometimes wonder what happened to it. regards Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Lamb Sent: Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: L18 SSS block ID (and parts for sale) >All of the first 240Z sold world wide had 4 speeds and rubber matts. I'm going to disagree with you an leave it at that - all Australian delivered Z's came with CR 5-speed GB. 4-speed was a factory option, but I've never seen a car with a 4-speed GB. Oh, and I owned an early 240Z for a while (RHD car #388), it had the original drive train...and had a CR 5-speed GB type FS5C71B. --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
