[David]

I dreamed of all sports cars when I was kid in the 70's. The one's I hoped to afford like a Countach and the one's I knew I could afford like a 240Z.

I bought a '72 240Z the day I turned 16 for $1600. Boy was that a learning lesson! Total rust bucket. I sold it a couple months later to a junk yard for $300 because it needed to be put out of its misery.

8 years later after college, I bought a mint condition '78 280Z. I spent the next 10 years putting a bunch of money into hot rodding and painting it only to sell it to a coworker for the same $3000 I paid for it and bought my 930.

When I sold the 280Z it had 240 bumpers, front airdam, rear spoiler, headlight covers, and 15x7 wheels. Under the hood it had a rebuilt '75 280Z engine bored 0.040 over with Nissan racing pistons cut down to 9.3:1 compression, cam, headers, and a 280ZX intake manifold. Behind the engine was an '83 5-speed and rearend which had the best ratios. Underneath was Eibach springs, Tokiko shocks, homemade strut braces and thick swaybars.

And the A/C worked! Funny story on the A/C: I spent a bunch of time on a Bridgeport at work cutting excess weight off the stock cast iron compressor mount. When I told a fellow Z-car guy what I did he said I was going way overboard since the ZX aluminum mounts were so light already. Doh! I went to a pick a part the next weekend and bought an aluminum bracket for probably $10.