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I have the B310 Competition Book (copy). Drums = Standard 310, but Competition shoes as per 110 and also a couple of different options for wheel cylinders.

These Drums look very much like 240Z but as indicated they're different (240Z were 9" diametre I think).

Thanks Fandatstick, that confirms what I had thought.

OK, so it looks like these drums were never listed as a stock or optional part, nor were they listed as a competition part in any of the B110, B210 or B310 competition parts catalogues, yet the general consensus is that they were a factory supplied item.

The assumption is that they were supplied only to the factory racers & never made available to anyone else, or, .... alternately, they were an aftermarket item.
Their rarity would suggest that they were probably not aftermarket & I can proudly say that at least one pair of these babies will be coming to live in Australia.

Oh goody, another item I can cross off the "I don't really need it but want it anyway" list

you've got the best list ever Chris..

the drool factor is endless..

I bought some parts off a guy yesterday, who had a collection of 1200's in his yard. (Lucky bugger) There was a 1200 sedan that he said was ZA assembled. It had been a deluxe, and he said it had lots of weird differences. The wiper motor was different, and he showed me what was left of the grill. I don't know if it was a GX grill or not, I haven't seen enough of them to know. (haven't seen any actually) But he said that it had really oddball rear drums. The wheels were on, so I didn't get a look at them, but it made me think of this thread. I'll be seeing himm again some time, so if I get the chance, I mite investigate further. just for curiousities sake.

The GX grilles were based on the same ones as other models used, but the plastic ones used different colouring.

The Coupe grille remained as the same basic injection moulding all through it's production life, but it was coloured black in a lot more places than other models.

The GX sedan initially used the metal grille with GX emblems, but after the facelift in '72 it got that less attractive plastic one. I don't know, but presume that it too used different colouring to denote the GX version.

Brake drums? Never pass up the opportunity to check out a possible lead. Good luck with this one.

Quote:Well, as can be seen, these babies showed up yesterday & are better than I had expected.

I don't have an accurate scale, so the bathroom one had to do. I weighed both together to try & get a better reading so some simple math will get an average 'per unit' weight.

OK, the bathroom scale says that the PAIR of drums comes in at under 10Lbs [about 4.45Kg] They sure don't feel like an iron drum when I pick them up.

I suspect that they will get either washed with high pressure water blasting like my alloy oil pan, or bead blasted & painted black with polished fin tops.

Note what appears to be a makers name on this one. "IZUMI AL-FIN" Both are the same.

I think Paul Gray's coupe has the SA GX grill. none of the photos really show it very well - its all painted black. but here's one pic
shows different headlight surround

there's also differences in the centre of the grill, but I can't find a photo where it shows up.