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Datsun 240Z
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Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.
Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (13) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 2,500 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
The entry ticket to blue-chip Japanese classics, with a genuine Australian five-speed specification and a survivor pool small enough that good original cars get chased. The US market values these far higher, which sets a gravitational pull.
The run is falling: the four results since January 2025 average $51,223 against $62,958 for the six before them, and the one repeat sale in the record came back 9.6 per cent lower. Rust remediation can exceed the value of the car, and the gap between a $45,000 driver and a $145,000 restoration is wide enough to lose money in.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
The placeholder rows this record held for one pass are gone. Eleven of the thirteen are auction lots spanning December 2021 to March 2026 - $37,200, $42,000, $44,749, $49,500, $54,444, $58,000, $58,250, $63,500, $68,500, $73,000 and $83,001 - and behind them sit two older markers: a modified 1969 car at $45,000 at Shannons Melbourne in February 2018, and one completed transaction at $75,000 on the Australian Muscle Car Sales ledger, the only 240Z it has recorded since 2003 and the one row here with no date published. Across all thirteen the median is $58,000 and the mean $57,857. Across the eleven-lot run, with the repeated chassis counted once, the median is $58,125 and the mean $58,264.
Read the rest of the evidence notes (8 more)
A 1973 car in Electric Blue Metallic on a 2.8-litre L28 with triple SUs sold at Perth on 22 July 2025 showing 89,930 miles for $49,500, and at Chittaway Point in New South Wales on 24 March 2026 showing 90,766 miles for $44,749. Both listings recite the same itemised Audiinos Performance service of September 2023 at 89,489 miles - the same master cylinders, the same Carter fuel pump, the same carburettor rebuild, the same suspension bushes - and the same 2008 restoration. Eight hundred and thirty-six miles and eight months apart, MINUS 9.6 PER CENT. The new owner changed the wheels; nothing else about the car did.
Price against date correlates at minus 0.578 across the ten cars and implies about $6,900 a year. The six results before 2025 average $62,958; the four since average $51,223. The repeat sale points the same way at a steeper annualised rate over a shorter window. Three independent readings of the same direction is as much agreement as this library usually gets.
The four results of 2025 and 2026 are $37,200 for a car whose service history is unconfirmed, $44,749 for the repeat-sale car with a door that will not open and a window that does not work, $54,444 for a twice-awarded show car and $68,500 for a bare-metal restoration. This record prices a good, honest, original car, which belongs above the mean of those four and below the restored one.
Five of the eleven state the true distance is unknown or different from the reading: 2,365 kilometres shown on a car the seller says has covered 106,336, 7,541 miles on a car whose true figure is not known, 20,616 kilometres unknown, 7,725 miles not warranted, 33,262 kilometres not known. Fitted across the six readings that are credible, distance correlates at minus 0.419 and implies 4.7 per cent per 10,000 kilometres - and that fit is built on a subset chosen for believability, which is not a fit at all. The penalty stays at 0.5 per cent. On a fifty-year-old car with a replaceable instrument cluster, the odometer is a decoration.
The $83,001 Cedar Creek car is not the most restored, not the lowest-distance and not the most modified. It is the one with an unbroken paper trail: first registered in Osaka in August 1973 to a buyer at the Australian Consulate, imported in December 1974, two folders of documents running 1974 to 2001 and 2017 to date. On this model provenance outbid restoration by nineteen thousand dollars.
Four of the eleven lots - three cars, because two of the four are the repeat sale - run 2.8-litre L28 or 280Z engines in place of the original 2.4, and they made $44,749, $49,500, $68,500 and $73,000 - the bottom of the run and the second-highest of it. The originality premium this market is famous for attaches to the body, the documentation and the paint, not to the engine number. The 2018 Shannons result for a modified car at $45,000 is now the weakest support in this record rather than its cornerstone.
A rally car. The British Racing Green Penrith car with roundels on its doors made $42,000, second-lowest of the ten, on eleven years of regularity events. SOURCING: auction lot pages read in full, one to one against each result. This is the strongest evidence grade this record has ever carried.
An American market averaging about US$35,800 - roughly A$54,000 - that paid US$265,000 for the best car of 2026 and the equivalent of A$463,000 for a 34,000-kilometre time capsule in 2020, and a 9,600-kilometre Australian car asking $115,000. Asks are not sales.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
Send the link. A person reads the advertisement and its photographs and sends back what that Datsun 240Z is worth, what to offer and when to walk away, with five years of costs at the distance you drive.
Backed by 13 recorded Australian sales of this model. Read a complete one on a real car first. Seventeen sections, no account, nothing to pay.
One line of email when this desk publishes a call on a Datsun 240Z, or records a new Australian sale of one. Nothing else, no schedule, and on a quiet model you may hear nothing for months, which is itself worth knowing about a car you are chasing.