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Initial Pictures:
These are a handful of pictures when I first purchased my Z in April '04. At
this point I didn't really know anything about cars, so I just tried to find
everything that looked broken.
These pictures are of the hatch area with the carpet removed. There was a pretty
serious rust issue underneath the tool kit foam, which I later found out is a
typical leak-casualty area. There was a yellow wire running from the stock
receiver area to the front of the car, along with some other wiring that didn't
seem to have a connection.
The outside of the car was not in perfect shape either. The rear-left quarter
panel was smashed and rusted severely, and there were a handful of other areas
on the car where the paint was bubbling, hinting at the rust underneath. The
paint on the chrome trim was also peeling and worn.
The passenger side headlight and fog light were completely waterlogged and
rusted. Among the suspicious parts in the engine bay, the crack along the seal
for the air filter to the resonator stuck out. Inside, the cover was partially
torn off the steering wheel.
The clear box underneath the dash on the driver's side turned out to be the
brain of an old Viper alarm system. The center picture shows most of the garbage
I took from the car when it first came home. Plane tickets, a hunting license
from 1994, and other strange mementos from different cities and townships in the
area showed that this Z had gotten around quite a bit. There was also a pair of
Audiovox 6x9s (blown) sitting in the stock rear speaker holes.
I didn't even know that you could purchase new wipers and blades inexpensively,
so I ended up sanding and repainting the peeling wiper blades on the front. It
took an hour and lasted nicely for about a year or so, but the finish has
started to wear off a bit, so I'll probably be purchasing new wipers along with
blades in the near future.
I used a razor blade to remove the peeling paint from the rear trim, and the
chrome underneath was actually in decent shape. All four wheels are the 86 NA
style, arguably the ugliest stock 300ZX wheel. The rear left wheel was also
missing the center cap. Both rear reflectors had a significant amount of rust
underneath, and the clip mechanisms sat loosely in the holes because the rust
had eaten away at them. The dash was in near flawless condition except for a lip
that had formed above the center vent.
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