I'm 23.
My sister's ex boyfriend at the time had a 280zx. I saw it. I liked it. I looked up old datsuns and found the s30. I immediately fell in love. Then i found out about dropping v8's in their light chassis.... I fell in love some more.
I got my 76 280 for $4000 at 16. It had fresh paint, nice white interior, and the stock 6. I drove it for about 8 months while upgrading the suspension and cleaning up the engine bay with much help solely from this website. I read A LOT more than I posted(still do). Then I proceeded to wrap it around a pole during a storm.
Within 7 months I picked up my second 280z, a 1978. This one was in no where near the shape the first one was. Purchased it for $500 and essentially tore it down to nothing. Put on all the suspension from the first one and did all the body work and painted it. Then it sat for 4 years while I was at college where I read more and more on hybridz since the car was 4 hours away. I finished school, got home, and threw a V8 in it. That 16 year old's pipe dream of a v8 powered Z car came to fruition last September when I first got to drive it on public roads.