Only Z in 401 cars at home town show!

[snag point]

Where are all the Z's? Fun show, mostly Ford and Chevy. People loved looking at my Z and talking about Zcars. I would love to have some other Zcars to hang out and talk shop. Oh well.

[Walter Moore]

Been there, done that, twice.

Nice car by the way...

[snag point]

Thanks, I,m helping 2 Z guys in wally land (Walla Walla) fix up their cars. I am really building a Z club bolt by bolt.

[blue 72]

I'm not normally a fan of that green, but anything that nice I can't help but admire. I was quite surprised at my local show in July. Someone actually drug out a Datsun 2000 and I got to chat a bit with him. There is also a nice 280ZX here in Southern Utah with a custom paint job, but I've never met him at the two shows I've seen it at. I feel your pain.

[Poindexter]

Nice, clean car. Enjoy her.

I go to at least 2 different cruise-in nights locally per week. I love cars, talking cars and taking pictures of cars, so it's a natural, and luckily I have the time. So I just love cruise-ins and Shows too.

I finally just went to my first all Z Show, the NJ Show a few weeks ago and it was great to be among "family". Usually, out of well over 100 cars in the places I go, I am always the only Z- of any era. Tons of people come by to discuss the one they had and had to sell, or the one that "got away". They usually have the most reverence, it seems for the older Z cars, so I'm glad to be there.

Such adulation! I have actually been "chased down" only twice- both by other Z cars, and that's tough because I usually have my foot in it!

Edited September 7, 2008 by Poindexter

[James Salvato]

Its great that you can enter a clean s30 in a show,with show cars(muscle cars)from america,and you will get some respect.And when you get to the local track day,seems everyone likes to see it run.You get the older car guys saying,I had one of those when I was a kid.Gotta love the z car....

James Salvato

[snag point]

I had an almost 85% success rate. If they looked in the window at my Z they had some past or present relationship with a Z. One guy had a 77 280 in his garage with 34,000 miles. And "Blue 72," I agree with the color, but my green Z was in such good shape at $1,500 I had to buy her. Not many green ones left. So Green she stays. My 72 is blue, and I start working on it this week.

[rdefabri]

I was at the same show as Poindexter, then a day later at a "general" classic car show. I too had the only Z out of about 400 cars, and I thoroughly enjoyed the looks and comments.

See, at the Z show, my car was just another in a crowd. In fact, given the cosmetic condition, mine was even "ho-hum". At the general classic show, my car was unique, and it's present condition did not diminish its cachet.

FWIW - your car is quite nice BTW.

[snag point]

Your right, that is a good way to look at the whole car show scene in smaller American towns. I really worked hard to get my Z looking good for this show.

But it is old with a 10' plus paint job. I live on a farm with 1/4 mile of gravel road and the tires hold little rocks that chip the paint when I hit the gas on the paved roads. But that is the price I'm willing to pay, I drive it as much as possible. The grin factor is sky high every time I head to town. What you can't change ... enjoy what you have.