I went to Brookfield Days (city fair) in my home town tonight wearing my Datsun jacket and a guy comes up to me and says:
Him: "I like your jacket!"
Me: "Thanks. You have a Datsun/Nissan?"
Him: "Yeah, I have a '92 300ZX and a '71 240."
Me: "Alright! I have a '73 240Z myself. What do you have done to your 240Z?"
Him: "Oh, i'ts stock. I'ts going to stay stock."
Me: "You have anything done to your 300ZX?"
Him : "A bunch of track stuff, a lot of suspension work. I race it at Elkhart Lake."
Me: "Cool."
Him: "Do you have anything done to your 240?
Me: Yeah, coilovers, sectioned struts, five way adjustable shocks, S.T. swaybars, poly bushings, 6 point cage, ect.
Him: "Wow. What engine?"
Me: "It's out of a Buick Regal Grand National"
Him: "I'm a purist. It was good talking to you."
Me: *thinking* WTF?
Yeah, so what the hell? He has a crap load of suspension work done to his 300ZX that is not stock, but as soon as I tell him what engine I went with, he turns and walks away.... This is not the first time this has happened though. But this is the first time someone scouted me out and wanted to talk, but then they walked away.
From this point out, I will not tell them what engine resides in my Z car. I will have more fun talking with them when they do not know.
If any of you have not bought a Dickies jacket and sewn on some Datsun and/or Hybrid Z patches, you are seriously missing out!!! I wear my jacket everywhere (my chick digs it), and I get not only a crap load of compliments, but guys that come up and want to talk about thier old Datsuns or thier friends that had a Datsun. Makes for some cool stories It's a good time.