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The car in the video was a 260...and a 350 got pretty trashed too in the accident.

Saw this car at the SEZ shootout and it was awesome. Belongs to 240Hoke on Hybridz.org and it is tastefully done mixing old and new. http://www.tunerzine.com/articles.php?id=188

Bring on the links, I'm interested to see what's out there. Japanese history along with Chinese and Korean are all fascinating.

I was a dependent, my mother was a JAG stationed at Foster and I spent the summer there working for the Facilities Engineering folks for extra money and just soaking in the culture and the experience. I loved it so much I've been stationed at Kadena for 3 years and Yokota for 2-1/2 and am trying to figure out how to get back to Kadena. I distinctly remember seeing two Skylines racing down the expressway from Nago followed a minute later by a FairladyZ police car! There were alot of really neat souped up 4 door Skylines and Laurel coupes but those 1st gen Fairladys were just hot hot hot! Even after I came back I saw a Fairlady a Marine had brought back at Camp Lejeune and wished I had stayed longer on Okinawa to appreciate it more. On a trip to Hong Kong I bought a remote controlled ZX because it was what they had (wanted a 1st gen) but also because I just loved those Z cars. I bought a 260 in '86 and my first 240 in '91 and Iv'e had one ever since.

Thank God my wife knows talk of getting rid of the Z is verboten. I've mulled it over myself from time to time but just couldn't do it.

I got to spend a summer on Okinawa in '82 and the Z and the ZX were the hot cars to have. There were a ton of Skylines and Silvias and even a few Celicas but the Z was the hot car to have. When I was able to buy a car I knew I wanted a Z, didn't know the difference between 240-260 or 280 but it had to have that bodystyle.

Thanks for the heads up bobc, another project for a three day weekend on deck.

Outstanding, thanks for all the info.

Thanks for the advice and the link.

My windshield has scratches on it from the windshield wipers that apparently were pretty useless except for leaving small yet noticable scratches. Is there any sort of chemical treatment or buffing that could remove them or would I be better off just eating a new windshield?

If you're ever able to make it to a Nostalgic Heroes car show you might see alot of them. I never really was a fan but I knew they were rare. I'm pretty sure there's one in an auto museum in the basement of the mall in Daiba park in Tokyo.

Those are awesome! You have to have a pretty decent sized knowledge base to recognize the pattern and appreciate it.

Cops are the butt of some great jokes. I don't envy them though...I don't call a comedian when my house or my car gets broken in to...or worse.

I thought he was nuts the first time I saw him but my kids loved watching him and he helped their uderstanding of wild animals and the joy of experiencing them. He will be missed around the house when Animal Planet is on that's for sure.

There's a missing picture in there between 2 and 3 that is divorce number 1 where the lioness and several friends eat the carcass of the lion.

Amazing to find a Z in Fairbanks, I would have thought they had all rusted away after 5 winters! Sounds like the perfect car to campaign in the SCCA region up there.

Awesome Z... Iwould have thought the winters in Norway would have been really hard on it.