My first Z

[bduprees]

When in highschool I dated an MG lover and almost ended up with an MGB GT. But as luck would have it I saw the Z in 1970 and started saving my pennies. I ordered a 240 in 1972 and it came in an automatic-no thank you. I went to another dealer and again it came in an automatic and the wrong color. Zs were hard to get on the East coast and there was a long wait. I pulled my deposit again and another dealer told me he won some kind of dealer lottery to show the new 260z. He received 3 at the dealership. He took one for himself, a doctor had pre-ordered on and he offered me the third providing it sat in the showroom for 6 weeks. It was locked up. The wait was excrutiating, but in the end I got to drive it out of the showroom through the doors to the street. How cool is that? I still have this car with only 40k original miles and just purchased another. Gosh I love this car.

[24OZ]

Cool story, it would have been great if you took some pics of it in the showroom and you drving it out!

[Alfadog]

Wow, that is truly an amazing story... great to have you here

[Datzun76]

Does this dealer have any 350Z's from a lottery as well?

[bduprees]

It is funny you asked, just a week ago the 350 was at the same dealership for a showing. I'm kind of a biased older version owner and thought that the engineers had raped an Audi and the love child was half Toyota Avalon. In time I may learn to love this...this well since I can't say something nice I won't say something at all. Thanks for listening. Bill