Here's what 'Quail has to say about fellow Arkansan Terry Oxandale's 240Z — click the photo:
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Here's what Terry Oxandale has to say about it — please explore, especially the street modifications:
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Terry described building his 'Z' as a "divorce recovery project.' Just think about this: He made every inch of bodywork except the roof by himself, using whatever bullshit he could find to make the molds — he made the signature 'Z' headlight mold out of a type of cardboard tube used for forming concrete, for instance. Utterly unbelievable.
Here's what I wrote and published in my newspaper about it:
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Terry Oxandale's Datsun 240Z was one of over 100 cars entered in Saturday's fourth annual Motorsports Authority Car Show. " Modified" doesn't describe Oxandale's Datsun; it's more of a reinterpretation of the clasic design. Every inch of bodywork except the roof was penned, crafted in lightweight fiberglass and painted by Oxandale. He closely followed the flowing lines of the original steel bodywork, icluding the Z's signature headlights, adding flared fenders in the style of the Datsun 280ZX GTU race cars campaigned in IMSA championships throughout the late 1970s but more gracefully executed. Those fenders house tires over a foot wide at all four corners. Gone is the 2.4 liter inline six cylinder engine the car was born with. A Ford V-8 stroked to 383 cubic inches lives under the hood now, powering the rear wheels through a Borg-Warner WC T-5 transmission and limited-slip differential. Oxandale's one-of-a-kind 240Z was built as pure racecar, but has now been modified for street and SCCA autocross use. For more photos from the show, visit spotted.thecabin.net
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Check out his website, listed above, and shoot Terry an E-mail telling him what you think.
'Quail thinks it's got to be the best 240 Z hot rod in the world.