Alfadog

Don't worry Alan, I for one find this debate very interesting. I'm sure most others do too - if they dont, they dont have to read it!! McZ has an interesting thought. I'm going to have to check out all of our other cars and then perhaps we can make it clearer as to which side most Auto manufacturers find more ergonomic? Of course, that still will not explain the fact that the rally drivers of LHD Z's had their handbrakes switched over. I think that is the biggest clue as to which side of the tunnel is the "better" for driving. I had another good question but it has slipped my mind now! Maybe a poll is in order Alan?

Mmmmm sexy steering wheel. THe other one makes it look more glossy, but I can see the proper colour in this one yep. My steering wheel spokes have been sanded down at some stage to bare metal...... then they left it. Hasn't rusted yet ! hehe I've always wanted to restore my wheel - I need to find a replacement wheel for the interum first though

Maybe us Aussies should make a list of all the AMERICAN things that are annoying???? ROFL

Why? They sell a LOT of Ferraris in Japan... plus it looks even sexier with that bodykit on

Mate, we've had them down here for over 5 years now, so as you can imagine everyone's pretty darn happy to finally get rid of them... you can pass them on to some other country in 5 years when your time is up. Until then, SUFFER LIKE WE ALL DID!

To me, that looks too dark... :-/

I feel like laughing !

that guy just had no idea hey...

Stryder, it's great to see that some Americans know about Australia's contribution. You might be surprised of hte ignorance of some Americans.... (this is based on my own experience meeting Americans who did not know exactly where inthe world Australia was and I do not mean to stereotype all Americans as ignorant fools - just some :tapemouth ) Rick, as a young Australian I REALLY feel for you blokes did back then, and in all of the wars where in some cases you were sent in as pawns. Your message brought tears to my eyes.. sometimes I get overemotional about the enormous sacrifices you did. Thankyou Rick.

Eric, You probably already know but I LOVE your car. One of my favourites on the site (can't leave out Alan's ZG can we!) One question - do you have a large version of the " http://www.classiczcars.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=3011&papass=&sort=1&thecat=500 " picture? I'd love it as a background image if you had a really big one... As for watanabes... I saw a set of black 16's go for $550 - AUSTRALIAN. That's about $300 American dollars... I would have grabbed them up but I was late by 2 months.

There were some images showing what some guy had drawn of what he thought it should have looked like - extremely simialr to a 240Z however very modern at teh same time... you know, that whole retro thing. It was brilliant :classic: ....... btw I like this kit for the 350Z the best out of all those ones at the car show :love: http://zdriver.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album48&id=ahd

I think Alan's just getting old and trying to start arguments! Either that or he is subtley spreading the word that the Z was definitely not "An American car, built in Japan" - something that needs to be spread so that those darn yanks don't one day remember the Z as a "muscle car"... no offence to the Americans here certainly. Alan, about the Japanese short people driving Z's ... you have an answer for everything!!! Let me think of another... ok was there any real reason why they changed slightly the design from the "series 1" to "series 2" cars? (you know, the hatch vents, steering wheel holes, etc.) or was it just changed because it could be? Oh and one story I find hard to believe (can't remember where I heard it .. might have been you!) was that Mr. K actually got people to debadge all of the American export Z's in the beginning, and rebadge them all to be 240Zs... is this true at all? I'm going off topic aren't I...

It's just a pity they made it seem like a POS..

hehe yep I too have the seat all the way to the front, but I wasn't brave enough to say it

I think the handbrake is fine, but then I'm a RHDer too What I don't understand about the ergonomics is how the seat doesn't really come forward as much as I would expect (it was a Japanese car after all!!) and how you can't cruise around with your elbow out the window ! Pedals, dials and eveyrthing else seem to be positioned brilliantly!

Very nice! Gives me some ideas about my uncontructed Tamiya 350Z model............ :classic: