This Fairlady 432 has just sold @ Sotheby’s classic car auction for $253,000.

"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30) 03/17/2015 at 22:42 • Filed to: Datsun, Fairlady, 432

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This Fairlady 432 has just sold @ Sotheby's classic car auction for $253,000.

jkm7680 > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 03/17/2015 at 22:50

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Holy sheeeit.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 03/17/2015 at 22:52

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But it's still ten shy of a 442.

Obruni > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 03/17/2015 at 22:53

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crackpipe

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 03/17/2015 at 23:00

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This can go around a corner and win rallies.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > jkm7680 03/17/2015 at 23:01

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Not an even rarer 432R, but still very rare. I can't imagine my Z with a Hakosuka DOHC motor.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Obruni 03/17/2015 at 23:01

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I don't think you know what it is then, its not a 240Z.

gergey - Wishes vette was Datsun > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 03/17/2015 at 23:25

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sweet jesus.

I'd love a totally ordinary 240Z, with EFI and disc brakes all round. More ambitiously, a 6MT and a newer straight 6

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > gergey - Wishes vette was Datsun 03/17/2015 at 23:29

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Restomoding ruins them, original motor with triples is fun and sounds great.

gergey - Wishes vette was Datsun > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 03/17/2015 at 23:39

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Difference in opinions then, everything I drive has a full set of discs, or a differential hydraulic wet disc setup for vehicles with individual wheel/track braking. No way I'd trust my life to drum brakes.

Also, keeping something carburated for the sake of "originality" is obnoxious

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 03/17/2015 at 23:41

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I figured it would be high... but quarter-mil is WAY high.

But I guess Toyota 2000GT earlier broke a million, so the pedigree is not entirely unexpected... considering the same Yamaha project spawned both cars.

Yamaha pitched their 2000cc sports car concept to Nissan in 1964, who decided not to bite, but used some of the car's under-development traits on the S30 Fairlady design. They acquired skilled engineers when they bought the Prince Motor Company in 1966, which is the source of the Skyline GT-R's S20 DOHC 4-valve engine. The S20 is what makes a Skyline GT-R a GT-R, and a Fairlady Z 432 a 432... 4-valves per cylinder, 3-dual-throat carburetors, and 2 overhead camshafts.

The Yamaha 2000cc sports car project was later further developed and pitched to Toyota, which took it, as the Toyota 2000GT coupe.

A 2000GT and a Fairlady Z 432 are essentially automotive half-sisters, under two different last names.

The Magic Rev Matching 4Runner > gergey - Wishes vette was Datsun 03/17/2015 at 23:46

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EFI vs Carbs is totally a matter of easy vs a challenge to me. It's not so much originality, cause that's sort of over with triple carbs, but the feeling that they evoke. Hardly anyone I can think of would buy a 240z for the high tech-ness of it. And the whole thing about trusting one's life to drum brakes doesn't make sense to me. I'm not trusting the brakes, I'm trusting myself with said brakes

The Magic Rev Matching 4Runner > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 03/17/2015 at 23:49

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I need this now:

http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/02/engine…

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 03/18/2015 at 00:08

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I wonder what a 432R would go for, there are only 18 of them, something like that.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > The Magic Rev Matching 4Runner 03/18/2015 at 00:10

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Join the club!

Street Surgeon > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 03/18/2015 at 00:26

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Awesome car, and they say a vehicle is worth what someone would pay for it, but from a die-hard Nissan/Datsun/Z Car guy it's still crackpipe.

Street Surgeon > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 03/18/2015 at 00:34

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Whoa, whoa, whoa. Restomoding these cars ruins them for you perhaps, but people build their own cars for themselves. Certainly there's something to be said of a factory set sports car but then again it doesn't hurt to have something that's reliable, comfortable, faster than a modern-day Camry etc.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Street Surgeon 03/18/2015 at 01:19

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You can ruin a fat 280z all you want but the number of clean 240z are smaller by the year, so many rusted in back yards waiting. A classic car is art and we shouldn't ruin them. I have a 5 speed and triple carbs as well as rear disks that don't alter anything. Buy a 370Z if you want modern and comfortable. Modern rims are awful on old Zs too.

Street Surgeon > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 03/18/2015 at 09:01

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Well, what you would call "ruining" a 240Z many, many, many enthusiasts would call enhancing :) It's great that you like your car, and if anything modifying the originals should only make your own car that much more special for you right?

If it's any consolation if I did buy an older Z car it would definitely be the more stout 280Z version of the S30 chassis, I'd ditch the uber heavy crash bars/bumpers, convert it to EFI with an L28ET motor (though a turbo'd KA24DE would be tempting!) and perhaps a 6-spd 350Z trans and call it a day :)

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > gergey - Wishes vette was Datsun 03/18/2015 at 16:03

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That black one

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and the 432