Tom, you are correct, it's a V-12. About the same gas mileage as my Escalade, about 12mpg.

Tom, you are correct, it's a V-12. About the same gas mileage as my Escalade, about 12mpg.

Yousa!! That's pretty poor mileage Randy, beautiful car though....

Since my round trip drive to work in G'ville is 45 miles and I do it 6 days a week this is how I let my cars share the joy and get their exercise.

72Z-1 day

82ZXT-2 days

03 GMC Envoy- 3 days

That will change if it raining or to damn hot then the Envoy gets the exercise.

Edited May 14, 200915 yr by cunniwj
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Ttiger. Is your 87 maxima SE nice? My dad had one new in 87 and I had one in 95. I know that was one of his favorite cars ever.

"The door is ajar"

87 Maxima....brings back bad memories. I had one in 1995-96 and all it did was give me trouble. It ran allright but electrical gremlins led me to getting rid of it. Like the digital instrument cluster that would go blank whenever it felt like it and just as mysteriously return or the shifter that occasionally wouldn't come out of park.

Very cool!!! My dad (Diseazd) and I recently re-built the motor. 97 528 M52 engine with variable valve timing, new rings, new bearings, M3 cams, ARP head studs, OBDI intake manifold and a 93 525 VVT DME.

Vogtland springs, Koni shocks, ACS type III wheels. Euro head and tail lights but I did the Acura TSX projector retro-fit with Philips D2S HID's.

I just keep thinking with all the $ spent on this car, I could have an M5

Tomwas.... Love the volvo Bertone coupe. Very cool!!! I miss my Volvo 850R wagon

Lovin soundmasterg's old school volvo as well!!!

By the way five&dime, thanks for the Bertone comp, i always liked them and wanted one, now i've been driving it about a month after working on it for a couple of months... Had my fun and now it's time to sell it... I work for a living but have been buying and selling 2,7 and 940 series Volvos as a side hobby for over 20 years now, usually 5 or 6 a year... That is one sweet dime you've got there, couple of guys in my Ct. Z car club have them also... Our Club advisor and fellow member is Bob Sharp, talk about being in the presence of glory.. What a great down to earth guy though, he even signed my ZX shock tower and a Z poster i've got........ Once I got divorced I started buying Z cars and other rides I always wanted, had a couple preludes, 3 BMW's, one Beemer was an 80's grey market 740i turbo car,had that one about a month and a half and sold it, life's too short, gotta have fun..............

I have always like the bertone body style. At one time I was considering getting one and doing a wild engine swap. But then I realized I was an idiot with no money and the last thing I needed was a $ pit. They do look nice as coupe's. And they are RWD correct?

Thanks for the compliments on my car!! I got the opportunity to take the 510 out on the track at summit point recently with the East Coast 510 meet. It was a blast. We camped out just off the track. There were 19 street cars and 6 track cars. I took tons of photos. My car was amazing on the track. We did parade laps behind Bryan Redman in a classic 911. Then a few of us discovered that the new drift track was left unattended The last photo is of Bryan Redman being followed by my friend David driving Pete Brock's old 510!!

Here is the link to all

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14049800@N00/sets/72157617556887991/

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Edited May 15, 200915 yr by five&dime

Awsome pics, ^^^^, VERY nice...

My daily driver is a 1999 Hyundai Accent. Decent gas mileage and it helps me improve my customizing techniques before I start using them on the Z.

If I counted right, I'm only the second so far who daily drives their Z... Interesting.

I used to use my Z as a daily until it got stolen in 2001. It's still quite capable of being a daily driver. I've just made other arrangemants since then. I have used a 89 Toyota Celica for about a year, a 91 Nissan NX1600 for about a year, and the 810 since 2003.

2006 Yamaha VStar Classic