[DeTomaso] NPC - interesting design story - 240Z

[Effie Richards]

I love all these stories of how you all got to love sports cars or fast cars. Thanks for sharing them!

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> On Mar 14, 2018, at 8:26 PM, Bill Lewis <lotus0005 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>   Spring of 1963 - I was making $300. a month as a lab technician.  I
>   ordered a 1963 Chevrolet SS, 340, 4 Spd, a/c, Burgundy w/black
>   interior.  My car note was $99.  My insurance was $99./month.  Take
>   home pay about $250.  21 years old, single.  It lasted 2 months, then
>   sold it.  Hitched rides to work with a buddy in a Falcon.    ---BILL L
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>   From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> on behalf of
>   Larry Stock <larrys at panteraparts.com>
>   Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 5:58 PM
>   To: Tom Shinrock; detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
>   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC - interesting design story - 240Z
> 
>   AWW S to be young and naive again
>   On 3/13/18, 10:46 AM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Tom Shinrock via DeTomaso"
>   <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of
>   detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
>>  That's how I started out.  I bought a brand new 1978 280Z right
>   after I
>>  got my job offer letter (a month before I graduated).  I had to get
>   a
>>  loan for the $800 down payment.
>> 
>>  For the last month of school I was a BMOC :).
>> 
>>  After the car payment, school loan payment and apartment rent I
>   didn't
>>  have much left from my paycheck.
>> 
>>  Tom
>> 
>>  5186
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Jeff Detrich <jjdetrich at gmail.com>
>>  To: detomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
>>  Sent: Tue, Mar 13, 2018 10:57 am
>>  Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC - interesting design story - 240Z
>>  [1][1]https://zhome.com/History/StylingMatsuo/MatsuoZStory1.htm
>>  For many of us, the 240Z was how we got into sports cars. This is a
>>  good story about how it came to be. Lots of pictures of prototypes.
>>  Jeff
>>  6559
>>  References
>>  1. [2]https://zhome.com/History/StylingMatsuo/MatsuoZStory1.htm
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>>  1. [1]https://zhome.com/History/StylingMatsuo/MatsuoZStory1.htm
>   [2]Z Design - zhome.com
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>   WITHIN NISSAN MOTORS Ltd. JAPAN By 1965 the responsibility for the
>   Design and Development of Nissan Motors Ltd.'s automotive products
>   rested within its own ...
>>  2. [3]https://zhome.com/History/StylingMatsuo/MatsuoZStory1.htm
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