[GH85Carrera]

Back when the 280ZX was new, a buddy at work bought one. He had the dealer find the exact car he wanted. It was all sorts of new fangled, and had a a lady's voice that told you if the door was not fully closed and other things. Pretty space age for me with my 74 914 2.0 at the time. I got to tease him because the lady voice would say "the door is ajar" with a sexy tone and I told him the it is still just a door and a jar was a storage vessel.

The funniest thing is the his wife got super jealous of that female voice and made him take the car to the dealer and have the voice changed to a man's voice. My wife calls herself a garage widow because I am playing with my car, but she is not truly jealous of a car.

He moved up to Oregon long ago, and I have not talked to him in several years. He still had that car in pristine condition.

Back in that era they were common at the autocross site. The only car that ever comes out to our autocross, that is older than my 911, is a guy with a total tack whore gutted, stripped down loud and obnoxious 240Z. It is ugly and rusty, and with flared fender and wide race slicks is fairly fast. We have not seen him in a while. It may have collapsed from rust and abuse.

Overall it was for sure an iconic car of the era.