Does anyone remember their first time seeing a Z and thinking WOW!

[andy19422]

Love hearing all your stories. Funnily enough my first time ever seeing a Z was this year at the Ryde car show on the Isle of Wight. It's a pity I couldn't find the owner for a chat, perhaps he is a member.

 

[Kieronpollock]

Mine was seeing this and a week after I bought it the WOW turned into WTF have I done ….. glad a took the journey

 

[AD240Z]

Was that car one of the 2 you're selling now? If not, how did that one turn out? Was it a good impulse purchase?

Yes mate - the white one I bought in 2005 .

I never did a lot to it - it’s fairly original still . I saved the money to start a refresh and spent that money on the blue one !!!

It was a great buy . I’ve truly loved it .

Here is the original z club thread on it - absolute classic z club forum

1970 240z on ebay

So why isnt anyone talking about the lovely looking white 240 on ebay, or are they/have they????? Looks and sounds very nice, isnt an early car like this worth a lot more than 4500 ???

zclub.net

 

[MCBladeRun]

A post on Reddit I'm afraid everyone, I hope it doesn't cheapen everyone else's stories I've been reading. Tbh I was looking at ford Capri's before (bit of a ford nut, love a fiesta).

Not looking back by the way; these cars are animals each and every one of them. No 2 are alike and each have personal history (I mean, what doesn't after 50 years)

 

[Robotsan]

Yes mate - the white one I bought in 2005 .

I never did a lot to it - it’s fairly original still . I saved the money to start a refresh and spent that money on the blue one !!!

It was a great buy . I’ve truly loved it .

Here is the original z club thread on it - absolute classic z club forum

1970 240z on ebay

So why isnt anyone talking about the lovely looking white 240 on ebay, or are they/have they????? Looks and sounds very nice, isnt an early car like this worth a lot more than 4500 ???

zclub.net

That thread! Nothings changed on this forum I see Also disgusted to see the price you paid

 

[Robotsan]

A post on Reddit I'm afraid everyone, I hope it doesn't cheapen everyone else's stories I've been reading. Tbh I was looking at ford Capri's before (bit of a ford nut, love a fiesta).

Not looking back by the way; these cars are animals each and every one of them. No 2 are alike and each have personal history (I mean, what doesn't after 50 years)

Nothing wrong with Reddit! One of the more normal areas of the internet I would say. What was the context? Someone sharing a pic of their car on a subreddit for classics or something?

 

[MCBladeRun]

Nothing wrong with Reddit! One of the more normal areas of the internet I would say. What was the context? Someone sharing a pic of their car on a subreddit for classics or something?

Just a casual browsing of Reddit/all one day and I saw it: this restomod car by an Aussie that I got absolutely enthralled with; the lines, the stance, the character. It had a presence. It stood strong, it had a commanding aura

 

[Robotsan]

Just a casual browsing of Reddit/all one day and I saw it: this restomod car by an Aussie that I got absolutely enthralled with; the lines, the stance, the character. It had a presence. It stood strong, it had a commanding aura

Not the one build by the YouTuber Jeff? Or are we talking further back than that?

 

[Mr Tenno]

I found this somewhere on the net and saved it back in 2006.



I think the first one I saw in person was outside @johnymd 's house . I was sold!

 

[Huw]

Remember it well. Twas 1979 during a lazy late September Sunday afternoon bike ride with my mate Alan. Just out side Abercanid where I lived at that time ( tiny little mining village in South Wales) was a Datun dealership. We thought we would go for a ride up to the garage and look at the cars after Sunday school (was a thing back then). As we peddled over the bridge from our village to the new garage complex expecting to see the usual boring mustard yellow, maroon or blue grey boxes that passed for cars back then, was a vision of futuristic loveliness.

On the forecourt were two, fresh off the boat, sleek rocket-ship shaped 280ZX. Silver 2 seater and bronze 2+2. Ok not everyone’s cuppa, but I was 10 and Dad had a Humber Sceptre, in grey. So a 280ZX was so another level. We drooled over the cars and made such a pest of ourselves the sales staff let us sit in them and gave us loads of stickers and brochures so we would go away. On getting home I waxed lyrical about the cars, to which dad replied ‘bloody jap crap’.

I‘ve had a soft spot for the ZX ever since. I bought mine back in 1991 after finishing my apprenticeship with the MOD in Bath. Funnily enough it was the same model and year as the one I first saw all those years ago in South Wales.

 

[TB24O]

Love hearing all your stories and so will being with mine, I have to cast my mine back a lot of years for this one, it was 1997 and I was driving around in my first car, after just passing my driving test in a viva to work, I had just arrived at my place of work and I hear a car roaring up the farm drive and then a thing of beauty turned the corner and you guessed it a 240z came in view!
I was sold in an instant !!
So the mission to get one started, I had to wait till I was 21 as my insurance premium dropped and yes I indeed bought my first and only red 240z for £1850
I have had her for 42 years now and loved every year of my ownership and hopefully many more years to come, nice investment as well but will never sell her but pass it to my son to drive and keep the Z heritage alive

 

[Rob Gaskin]

1997?

I reckon from your numbers it's 1977?

 

[toopy]

1997?

I reckon from your numbers it's 1977?

I think maybe the 42 years owned should be 24?

 

[TB24O]

Hi Rob , senior moment it was 1977 and I bought car in 1981, I was writing this late at night and have big fingers and been down the pub, so hopefully the jury will let me off
Anyway at least l did get some numbers right owning the car is 42 years lol
Merry Xmas

 

[Jay.]

At a track day early on - I just have been 20? Saw a red 240z with black accents having a blast around Donington - it had "Enter the Darkness" on the back spoiler.

Been hooked since, and finally bought one around 5/6 years later (after watching the prices steadily increasing in front of my eyes). I now own a red 260z with black accents

 

[Rob Gaskin]

Jay, I think that would be Steve Francis in his Ford V8 240Z.

'Welcome to the Dark Side'

 

[datsfun]

It's was circa 80/81. Location was the car park at our local Gurdwara( place of worhsip) in Nairobi, Kenya. Instead of being inside the prayer hall with the congregation, I was hangin' out with my mates and checking out the cars in car park...as you do !

And then I saw it. A metallic blue sports car with a 2 seater configuration and a swooping bonnet and I was in love .

KNZ 007 - was the registration plate !! And I was lucky enough to see the owner fire it up and drive away ...

The car had made its mark on me and I remember saying to myself, one day I will own one.

Remember s30's were never imported officially into Africa. Probably half a dozen private imports made it into Kenya so the probability of seeing one on the roads was very low.

Nissan had campaigned the 240 on safari rally 71-74 and that was the first introduction to zeds for the masses back home in Kenya ..but nit for me as I was still learning how to walk at the time .!

Roll forward 30 plus years and I always wondered what happened to KNZ 007. My fear was it would have been scrapped as back then , Datsuns were not seen as classics ( many in Kenya still hold that view ).

But it lives ...so my prayers were answered !

 

[Jay.]

Jay, I think that would be Steve Francis in his Ford V8 240Z.

'Welcome to the Dark Side'

That is the one! Other than that video I've not found any other information/pictures on it. Sounded great!