What is your first Z memory?

Amuse370z

I flipped through an Option magazine that I bought at the airport for my trip back home.

I saw the ad for the upcoming release of the Amuse kit. That was when I knew that this was the car that I wanted. It was probably the best looking car I have ever seen (non-supercar).

Then the reasons to get the car just kept on flowing.

Nailzs

My first Z memory was about 1972. I test drove a used 1971 240Z. The salesman had the attitude I couldn't afford it, it was $2000, and the car had a bad slipping clutch. I wouldn't buy it.

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ltullos

Sometime in early 1971, I was driving east on the old Dallas-Ft. Worth turnpike with my college roommate and we saw something amazing headed west. Had it been possible for us to around and chase it down, no question we would have. We initially thought is was a Ferrari, but by the end of the day learned it as something called a Datsun 240Z. Fast forward 3 years and I had graduated from college and bought my 72 model with 40K miles for $4100 which was more than the original owner had paid new. It kept my pulse racing for the next 9 years and was extra special knowing I had the very best model year. BTW, That roommate also bought one in 1971 so that first sight was a defining moment for both of us.

By 1983, the 260, 280, and 300s (Z31) had become very commonplace in DFW, put on a lot of weight, and lost a lot of their appeal to me. When I finally had to move on to something else it was a turbocharged Mitsushibi Starion. It filled the gap until I was driving down Beltline road in Addison in Nov 1990 and I saw my first Z32 and had that same WOW moment I did 20 years earlier. It was nine long months of obsession until I was able to buy my first Z32 2+2 in 1991, a 1995 2+2 in 1996, and ultimately a Z32-TT in Jan 2002 which I still have today to go along with my 40th AE 370Z.

Never underestimate the power of love at first sight or the amount of joy Mr. K has brought into our lives because he had the same passion!