1973 Datsun 240Z

Try this out for a restoration by the legendary Swiss guy "My Mechanics"

"I make a new one"

He had it easy. Look at the 260Z that Yorkshire Car Restoration are rebuilding (well, until they decided to rebuild if with stupid flared arches and rebuild the boot floor; I like original!)

I miss my 240Z, thirty years on...

Neil

I will.

Don't tell me you already know of My Mechanics as well as CEE Neil

You'd be amazed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L8e5-XgzjU&list=PLi4p-Atl-NoUoh0obyMxhy6O2C56w__rc

Neil

Have you seen MM's work so far Neil? Not forgetting his Insights channel where various stages are tackled - the dent-pulling is particularly fascinating.

You see everybody, YORKSHIRE !!

A proper place, not like some weirdo place like on the Avon or Severn.

Tread carefully there Paul

We're not weird on the Severn, webbed feet is natural down here, lol

I tried to go and visit them a couple of visits ago, before they changed premises. Unfortunately Google didn't know about them, but did know about another restoration company with a very similar name, also in Yorkshire. Joe will attest that there was some confusion for a while

MM Simon? Whodat?

Neil, My Mechanics.

I see what you mean about the 260Z restoration, it is totally insane; I would happily believe the entire car was actually manufactured in "filler" , with some accident repairs using metal patches

It's a different, more realistic in many ways, world in YRC to the clinically sanitised one of My Mechanics; having said that they are both superbly skilled.

I really admire the tenacity of the Yorkshire chap after trawling through well over 2 dozen of their videos although I'm not keen on the banal chat and constant musack behind the scenes, you don't get that in MM.

MM: I realised just now... and yes, I have.

I know what you mean about the background musak on YRC; drives me crazy. But then, you and I were brought up in more genteel times

Steve - the father - has a better delivery than son Ryan; less about how absolutely disastrous it is and more about the shaping and fitting. But they're both pretty good, though Joe tells me they weld in the wrong direction.

MM's Z is barely rusty, to be honest; California car? My 240 had more rust than that in 1986.

Yes the kind climate was a factor in the purchase I think.

It's the pursuit of 'perfection' which is intriguing - it seems there are limitless resources though.

I liked the dry ice application for removing sound-deadening