Z video

[Mr Camouflage]

Gee you are a legend!! I was looking for repeats, but couldnt see any.

P.S. Next tuesday it's about the porsche 911 if anyones interested.

[26ounce]

I agree - you are a legend Rogersz! Thanks for the heads up.

I know what I'll be doing tonight! And the good thing is 10.30pm EST is 8.30 over here in Perth, the time difference working in my favour for once.

[Mr Camouflage]

I thought it was 7:30 WST. 3 hours difference? of has the eastern states daylight saving ended?

[26ounce]

Originally posted by Mr Camouflage

I thought it was 7:30 WST. 3 hours difference? of has the eastern states daylight saving ended?

OK, you have got me worried now Mr Camouflage. I'll make sure I'm home at 7.30 just in case.

[Mr Camouflage]

Well i can still hear the history channel and it sounded like the shows listed were 3 hours ahead.

[Rogersz]

Other shows to keep an eye out for were E-type Jag, Corvette

and Mustang.

[26ounce]

Thanks Mr Camouflage, it did start at 7.30.

The show was not bad but it was all very US-centric in perspective. They had a number of interviews with Mr Katayama (sp?), all these interviews related to how Nissan went about cracking into the US car market. It was very glowing in it's praise of Katayama. Without openly saying it they almost implied that the rest of Nissan verging on incompetent without him - particularly in Nissan's approach to the US market.

They showed some of the TV adverts used at the time and they were pretty funny - particularly the black gold 280zx ad which is hilarious.

A disappointment to me was that they failed to show any of the early seventies rally footage. They could have cut half of the Z enthusiast interviews to include some of this, the Nissan Sales Rep in particular was begging to be edited out. One of his comments was that the 300ZX was at the cutting edge of sports car design, this comment was made in 1995 so he must have been ignoring the GTR.

But any documentary on the Z is a good documentary, it is worth watching just for all the old footage. I'd give it ****/*****

[Alfadog]

The R33 Skyline wasn't exactly "cutting-edge" in the styling department............ pretty bland really.

"Sports car design" - whether that means the actual design of the look of the car, or the design of the car as a whole is debatable...

[Mr Camouflage]

Yeah it was very US biased. Especially when the anouncer said the 240Z came with a 4 speed gearbox. Yeah, only if you were unlucky enough to be living in the USA. The rest of the world got 5 speeds and rear anti sway bars!

[26ounce]

Originally posted by Alfadog

The R33 Skyline wasn't exactly "cutting-edge" in the styling department............ pretty bland really.

"Sports car design" - whether that means the actual design of the look of the car, or the design of the car as a whole is debatable...

I interpreted to mean the design of the car as a whole, ie suspension, drivetrain etc. IMO, a comparison of the R33 GTR and the 300ZX would have the ZX ahead on looks and not much else (donning flame proof suit having typed that).

Anyway I found the guy who made the comment kind of annoying. No matter he said I probably would have found fault with it.

[Alfadog]

well i missed it so I guess I missed out on being frustrated at the presenter more than anything ROFL

[halz]

So did anyone in W.A. tape the show?