It's been 2 years and almost 8 months since Angel updated the status of his Z above. My story involves Angel.
Now I'll tell you my story. First notice my ID here, ZcarS30-00039. The S30-00039 was the VIN of my first Nissan Fairlady Z. Oldest Z I know of. Anyway, she was purchased in Tokyo by a US Air Force officer. He shipped her to the states. Couldn't keep her so was going to trade her in on a Datsun in early 1970. The dealer couldn't accept the trade-in (no smog BS), so a salesman at the dealer bought the Z and put it on the market. This was when there was a months long waiting list for a Z. Anyway I saw and add in the paper for a Fairlady Z. Doubtful then anyone even knew a Fairlady was the Japanese version of the 240. I did because I was telling a fellow I worked with how much I wanted a 240Z, but he had no idea what it was. One day we saw one on the street as we were driving around Miami. I told him that's a 240Z. He said, no. He said when he was just in Japan, they were a Fairlady Z.
Anyway, I contacted the fellow in the ad and got my Z without a wait, although used a bit. I had it until 1992 when hurricane andrew dumped half a pine forest on her. We got the trees off, but she was about a foot and a half tall. Also at this time there were hundreds of abandoned cars in Dade County. The county as well as scrappers were picking them all up. I didn't know it was gone till I got back from a long trip to Ohio. Zero luck finding out what happened to her.
That's the front story, except I still missed my Z. Flash forward to 2001. I see on the internet a '73 Fairlady Z for sale in Texas. After some work, a trip to Texas, and some money exchanged, said Z arrived at my home on a transport truck. Loved that car. I was SLOWLY working on getting it back to as stock as possible.
Then I discovered my love of Harley's outweighed my love of that Z, Kids were grown and lots of free time to ride with the wife. The Z was eventually relegated to not being garaged. Hated that, but that's the way it was. Now I wish it hadn't been, but that was then and now is now.
Well, I wanted to sell her, but not to just anybody. One day I was contacted by this young fellow named Angel. Yes, I am the old dude he first mentioned and his story about his buying the Z is spot on! Well one thing isn't really true. The part about getting in and out was really true. I think we both loved the car so much that I concocted that story to cover my crime of allowing a Harley to push it outside!
I've been in contact with him since, very OFF and on. The last I had seen of the Z was on it's way to be blasted.
He just told me today about this site, so here I am. My thoughts on the Z. I hope he does not cut up the body and goes with orange which he said was one of the colors he was thinking about. The reason, my original "00039" Z ended it's days being orange. Miami to West Palm, less than a couple of hours. I need a road trip, I think!
If you got this far, thanks for reading and I, more than anyone here, including Angel, NEEDS to see the Nissan Fairlady Z looking beautiful and back on the road!!! Take care...Bob