TomoHawk

I received my bulb from Amazon, but I won't get to try them in the car for a couple months or so. I will try them in with a test battery tho, just to see the color, and brightness.

I explored my car thoroughly, and I'm fairly sure I found where the air gets into the upper frame rail. The 240Z has the plastic elbow to the radiator support, and the 280Z gets the air in the same place, but instead of the plastic elbow, the radiator support has a gap between the front & back panel, and the air flows through there to the upper frame rail.

Kats- Is there any special program about Mr K in your area?

S-type sounds fine to me... S, as in S30.

"No worries, mate" My 280S-type? :: I think it's really neat that a newspaper across the World points out something important at CZCC.

$^!#, wizz, ****, c***, ****sucker, mother****er, tits With a slightly scientific tilt- feces, urine, intercourse, vagina, oral-sex, maternal-sex, breasts The slang tilt- crap, wizz, bang, slot, sucko, bango, bazoonga! "You can prick your finger, but don't finger your Prick!"

Nice Z28! Nice ZX! (Things I've heard on the street.) I think that's slightly more than 7 now...

AH, the preverbial can of worms is open... In stead of a character, you could use BLEEP! as the replacement. On the bullrun website, they used shift-1234 or (!@#$ as the replacement, but the people on Bullrun don't have the ability to converse without profanity- it's a reality show! and "real men" use profanity. But not the real men of CZCC.

Thank you Google translator! The Dutch language is much nicer to understand (the translation to English) than German, or even Japanese. I like how they referred to it as the "S-types," like it was a kind of Jaguar. Deceased Datsun 240Z creator by Bart Oostvogels | Autovisie YOKOHAMA - Yutaka Katayama, creator of the Datsun 240Z, last Thursday after heart problems in a hospital in Tokyo deceased. Mr. K, as he was known, was 105 years. Datsun 240Z Photo: Datsun Datsun 240Z Photo: Datsun Datsun 240Z Photo: Datsun DOCUMENTARY - In a three-part video series entitled Life & Times of Mr. K, Yutaka Katayama is portrayed throughout his eighty-year career. Watch the documentary. ReticentUnder the responsibility of the Katayama was born in 1909 Nissan put on the map in North America. In the 50s were Japanese automakers reluctant to enter the North American market, because there were, according to the then management teams chances. Katayama also saw the market as something negative, but was by the then management required to do market research. In the eyes of Katayama an 'exile'. SuccessAfter market research Katayama came late 60s with the plan to introduce a Z sports car, also in the United States. The management agreed. The sports car was born. According Katayama was not a good idea to introduce the GT and Fairlady Z in the US That designation would be successful under him in Japan, but definitely not in the United States. He stated that the car will be named Datsun 240Z. And so she also appeared in American showrooms. His decision proved to be a hit. In the first year of sales Nissan sold 45,000 S-types, followed by 50,000 units in 1971 and another 40,000 in '73. Partly enormous fame generated by the Datsun 240Z Nissan on American soil and it is selling the model hundreds of thousands of cars per year. CriticalEven when the Z-label by Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn in the 2000s new life was blown into, Katayama was fetched. Remarkably, for he was already retired since 1977. From Z-project originated the 350Z, which later his successor 370Z was based. In the eyes of both Katayama overpriced cars, especially compared to the simple and affordable concept of the 240Z. The Japanese was someone who always spoke like criticism, even to the management team. He found it extremely unwise that the Datsun name was lifted in 1983 and replaced by Nissan in the United States. Never retireKatayama was never actually retired, because even when he passed the age of 100 years, he still lectures. He was a diligent car enthusiast, Nissan which owes much both sports field as sales numbers. Katayama leaves two sons, two daughters, eleven grandchildren and eighteen grandchildren behind.

We had invited Mr. K to Cleaveland for the 2008 convention. Heck, we even invited Mr. Paul Newman. Had both of them made it, it would have been a miracle... The next best thing was meeting John Morton for the 2010 vintage races in 2010. He signed my program. I didn't want to take stuff off the car to get autographed.

Here is a reports about the event, if you're interested in some http://www.classiczcars.com/topic/15248-05-convention-the-great-northeast-z-adventure/ I was unable to find any videos, probably because there were few, if any, video cameras back then.

So why don't you head this idea? Get on your 'puter and find out how to contact him. Then let us know how, and we can all make this special.request.

Wikipedia says the "President of Nissan Motor Corporation U.S.A." not the President of Nissan IN the USA. I'd expect the latter from a foreigner, but not an American, as in the video.

I suppose you could blow some smoke up through there to see where it comes out.

Would it do much harm to the chassis (strength-wise) to put a hole in there, similar to what the 240z has, in order to get some pressurized air to the footwell vent? An elbow of sorts could probably be fitted. I suppose a single 4cm hole wouldn't hurt, IF you had to. Remind me to take the camera when I go to the paint shop.

I mean who Mr. K really was, and the Goertz myth, among other things. But thanks Alan for correcting my "misinformation." Somewhere, in what I thought was a credible source, it stated that Mr. K was the "first President of Nissan USA. A book I have, maybe. Stop by the chat room!

It's in his book, and other similar video interviews. There's no reason to let misinformation to go around.

I remember the first time I "interacted" with him. It was during a Skype video-call at the 2008 ZCON. Participants were able to get up to the microphone (a computer with a webcam setup) and ask him questions in real-time. I didn't ask a question, but I was there, and he did pick out a few people, like "Mad-Mike," our club liaison Yoichi (who set up the call) and some other people he recognized. Since then, we had a video-call to him at each Z meet hosted by the Cleveland club, and I think most of the ZCONs since 2008 did likewise. A few people from the Cleveland club made a trip to the Nissan museum in Japan, and visited Mr. K as well. Has anyone else met him personally since 2008? I mention 2008 because after the 2008 ZCON his doctor wouldn't let him travel abroad. He said he was sad about that, because he wanted to visit the Ohio Z meet, since our club visited him.

Does anyone know if there are any related TV shows planned? Maybe Motorweek will do one.

that's a good point. Please start a new topic to discuss that, but not right now. ("what would we be driving if there was no Mr. K, or the Z.")

It's because there are so many people that know about him, but have never cared to read, carefully or otherwise, any of the biographical texts, so they don't really "know" him. At least we know the facts.

They got it wrong too. they said he was "Nissan’s first U.S. president" when he was the first President of Nissan U.S.A.

There is a Mustang II club here with about 50 members, and ever one of the cars is superbly restored or customized with the latest stuff. They get a good response everywhere they go.

If i didn't get the 280Z, I would probably have a Mustang II, or an Early European Escort.

I think they found a way to let air circulate and dry it out. Bigger gaps maybe?