RE: Datsun 280ZX: PH Ad Break

RE: Datsun 280ZX: PH Ad Break

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PascalBuyens

2,868 posts

283 months

Thursday 25th April 2013
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urquattro said:
have to make do with an e type
Sorry, feel so gutted for you.... (not)

EdM

182 posts

174 months

Thursday 25th April 2013
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so not squandering his time then...
s m said:
EdM said:
straight out of Petrocelli and btw - does anyone know if Petrocelli ever actually finished building his house..?
If he hadn't spent all his spare time fooling around with naked girls on motorbikes, racing E-types and driving that Challenger across the mid-West he might have got on better .......

A friend had one of the 280ZXs back in the late 80s....he was always doing "stuff" to it in his parent's garage. It was a bit of a basket case but nice when it was going

speedster1950mr2

20 posts

150 months

Friday 26th April 2013
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Brilliant jap nissan 280 zx targa i used to own one in the 80,s smooth,stylish,mine was silver over black,real flash for the cash then,and differant,auto was smooth and fast enough,bodywork was a bit how can i say,air conditioned before repaint,next model 300 was a overweight lump.like one now in the same colour!!!

mikebrownhill

122 posts

199 months

Sunday 28th April 2013
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Ahh, Datsun; I got a 120Y (bother) for my (then) young lads to learn to drive in, quite a few years ago now (but both passed first time funnily enough) and I hate to say it but it was abused something terrible and just kept going and going. Then one of them 'got the bug' so to speak and after he passed his test went for a 240Z. He used/abused that car so much, but again it took everything the young fellah could throw at it - he's a bit older now and is having his old 'Dato' properly restored but has opted to put - and yes this is the point - a rebuilt 280 motor in it as he, and conventional wisdom, thinks it is the pick of the bunch for road use. The Z car's were seriously overdeveloped in all the wrong areas for the US market, but the engine did keep getting better each time and was/is a bit of a gem I believe.