I'm 24 and have been a Jeep owner and Tech since I was 16. I finally decided the 13 mpg that the 5.9 Limited got was not good enough. I found a Volkswagen Corrado VR6 and got a loan and went to buy it. I got there and we went to test drive the car and I got it onto the highway (it was dusk) and about as I got it to 50 mph a deer ran out in front of the car out of the ditch and the Corrado was totalled; before I agreed to buy it. Long(er) story short my insurance paid for the car and I was sitting on $3G's from the loan.
I had always liked Z cars and a friend of mine had a Z31. I found a 73 240z L28et north of Chicago http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=140574&highlight=lovethedrift (he advertised it here too) on craigslist and went to check it out. He was asking 5K and I got it for less than half of that. Unfortunatally I live in Iowa and cant drive it for a while. I found a 72 with a 350 in it on Ebay and scored it for parts for $185!!! It's got bumpers, steering wheel, interior, rear window louver... Went and picked it up Sunday. I stumbled into the Z world by chance and am loving every minute of it.