Yeah, my sons and I got "into" the Datsun (Nissan) Z-cars a number of years ago and between the three of us we had six of them. I was looking around for another one when I came across that ad. The boys raced theirs in SOLO races. I raced mine in the streets.
Hell of a fun car with a straight-six engine which would pull it away from stoplights at a
surprising rate. Would chirp going into second when I hit redline in first. I used to love to do that commuting into Denver, where there was a stoplight just before a tunnel and the chirp echoing in that tunnel was ummm....
satisfying.
Still have a faint burn mark from adjusting the front SU carb which is right by the exhaust manifold.
Fortunately, I broke its transmission before I got into trouble, ticket-wise, with it.
I gave it to the boys for parts for their Zs.
Here it is when I bought it from the impound yard of a towing company... a good source for serviceable, but not necessarily pretty cars. The lady from the impound yard is filling out the paperwork. I paid US$201.00 for it. The extra dollar was to avoid having to register it as a "salvage car," and thus not roadworthy. I got US$2010.00 fun out of it, and more. I wanged up the transmission linkage hauling ass off a light trying to beat another car to the next turn lane, and finally decided I was getting to be a dangerous driver with that thing.
I named it "Nymphie" because it was green and the clear coat was peeling off in a lot of places, so it looked kind of like a wood nymph, with leaves peeling off her. Took me a month to get it tuned juuuuust right.
A hell of a lot of fun, though! Sort of a poor man's Jaguar because the styling was copied from the Jag, but the straight-six engine was copied from the Mercedes-Benz 6-banger. I don't know who they copied the transmission from, though.
It was funny when we all met up at my older son's house and there'd be four of them parked out front. Looked like Z-City!
Zs are still kind of a cult car, and I still see them tooling around once in a while, and they still attract comment. I used to get a lot of "I used to have one when I was in college" remarks from onlookers when I parked it. I think mine was a '73, but I'm not sure.
Here's a Concourse-prepared one, not one of ours. Nice shapely little bitch. Sexy!
Terry, 230RN
(Concourse pic credit in Properties.)