Why didn't I buy that 1971 Datsun 240Z new? Maybe 'cause I didn't have my paper route yet?

My problem was my dad wouldn't let me buy a new 1971 Z since I was only in 3rd grade - and he wasn't getting a Z since he had five children.

Hemming's Sports & Exotics (I know, whip me). The latest issue has 3 original owner cars and their stories - Air Force Captain Dan Slagle picks up a car magazine in Vietnam and reads about the 240Z and then comes home and throws down his deposit for a new 240Z - he still owns it today and is looking at his second restoration - great story and pictures.

Doesn't the hive have some guys who have their first cars or original cars? Stories? It makes me want to go out and buy a new FR-S...........

This guy lives in the Downers Grove, IL area and has told me the same story - he bought this Z new - he also states the paint is original and another Z guy laughed and challenged him on that statement.

Well I know where my 2nd car is...but I don't want that one back. Actually, I'm not sure I'd want any of mine back - at least, not in the condition they were in by the time I was done with them!

It's not quite the same, but in 1991 my parents bought a brand-new Nissan 240SX. At the time, they had just become empty-nesters.

Fast forward however many years, and that very car is now parked in my driveway.

The 240Z is a vintage car that is timeless.

The first car i drove around after getting a license is my 1987 E-150. I still have it in the driveway. technically it was my parent's car at the time and i 'inherited' it after my jetta started falling apart at the seams. I wasn't the original owner since it's older than I am. I'm the first owner of my RX8 and plan to remain the only owner forever, though. Not sure a 2009 really counts in the spirit of this post, though.

My parents have a couple potential cars like this, though. My mom is the original owner of her MKIII supra, it's a turbo, 5 speed, all optioned out, just under 20k miles, and never driven in snow (or rain, really). My dad is the original owner of his 2001 Bullitt Mustang, again it's a bit new for the spirit of this post but it's sub 5k miles and in perfect shape. Neither of the cars are for sale, but i have dibs on inheriting that Supra

first car. dad bought it in 79, gave it to me in 92 when i turned 12. we restored it in 95/96 and i've been driving it since i was 16. original engine wasn't cutting it so i put in a v8 and changed all the suspension. 23 years later, still messing around with it

and i have a 240z and love it

Datsun310Guy wrote: My problem was my dad wouldn't let me buy a new 1971 Z since I was only in 3rd grade - and he wasn't getting a Z since he had five children. Hemming's Sports & Exotics (I know, whip me). The latest issue has 3 original owner cars and their stories - Air Force Captain Dan Slagle picks up a car magazine in Vietnam and reads about the 240Z and then comes home and throws down his deposit for a new 240Z - he still owns it today and is looking at his second restoration - great story and pictures. Doesn't the hive have some guys who have their first cars or original cars? Stories? It makes me want to go out and buy a new FR-S........... This guy lives in the Downers Grove, IL area and has told me the same story - he bought this Z new - he also states the paint is original and another Z guy laughed and challenged him on that statement.

I was a bit luckier. I was 11 Dad had 5 kids and he bought a new 240Z for Mom when we lived in Puerto Rico. Lots of memories of traveling in the back hatch area.

So I got to drive the car in PR (Being from SD Dad was a believer in early driver training) Canada, Europe and Florida. My first intro to driving on the wrong side of the road in Britain was in a left hooker and all I still remember the chant of "Keep the sidewalk and your left arm on the same side and you will survive". The french had the opposite of the Brits when it came to roundabout right of ways, and I could never recall anyways, so never boring. I would love to have that car back, so if any of you bought a two-tone 1971 from an interesting guy in Clear-water FL way back in the late 80's and need to sell it, call me!

And I will also admit that the decision to buy the FRS was because I see it as a modern incarnation of the 240Z. Too bad Nissan did not build it.

Then he sold it out from under me. No warning and no idea why, but he did. Probably did me a favour since the car had received a questionable "restoration" by an English Specialist who turned out to be somewhat less than. I would love to find that car

I got my 70 duster when I was 13. Ill be 34 tomorrow. Been restored twice, and when it was my daily, I drove it through every state east of the mississippi.

Unfortunately it has spent more time broken/sitting in the last decade than driving.

My winter project is its ressurection so I can daily it next summer.

The 240Z was the first car I really lusted over that was achievable, if you could find one for sale.

Several years ago I spied an orange 71-72 in a garage in an old subdivision. After seeing the car for years, I got the nerve up to get a phone number from a city directory and called it. Turns out the car belonged to the lady of the house and was a graduation gift from her parents. She was the original owner. I offered to buy it, but she was holding onto it because she wanted her kids to drive it. Her kids wanted nothing to do with the car! I asked her to hold onto my number. A couple of years later the car was gone. I never got a call.

I spotted the above Z in a corporate world parking lot and left my business card on it with a note "nice Z".

Five years later I run into it at a car show and I remind him about seeing it. He told me he still had my card. Then I met his son that loved the car too.