Originally Posted by Zpoint

** Update **
I ended up getting my deposit back from the dealership where I ordered my Z (both times!) on May 20th. Kudos to Joe @ KoeppelNissan for doing what I thought was impossible, that is locating the exact car I wanted. By some miracle, I threw a "hail Mary" to another local dealership and they located another match that is scheduled to arrive on June 4th at another dealership a few hours from here. As much as I wanted to give Koeppel my business, picking the car up locally and saving myself a 400 mile trip was more appealing.

What I found surprising was that two of these cars popped up in the past few weeks. Understand that I have been casually browsing dealer stock on Cars.com, Ebay and the local dealerships for nearly two years now hoping to get a closer look at the car I wanted (kept tabs on 2009's and 2010). All of this while my two orders were being processed. I can count on one hand how many times I saw the car I wanted. I would have bet $$$ that any search would turn up zilch and that I would have to attempt a third order but fate smiled on me and I had two options to snag the car I wanted in a matter of days.

NissanUSA.com shows "my" car as being in stock at the nearby dealership. I know it's actually in transit and should land on Friday, or so my dealer tells me. With any luck, my local dealership can transport it here a few days afterward and that it will be in my garage early next week :-) Here's hoping that fate smiles on me this time!