[DeTomaso] NPC - interesting design story - 240Z

[Dave Londry]

If you get the Japanese parts book and an urge to demolish your bank 
account,
the second issue of the 300ZX Turbo is pretty scary fast.

The tussle with SCCA about what you're allowed to put in is also scary.
Dave


On 17/03/2018 10:11 AM, marshall smith wrote:
> THAT is funny Mike!
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Sat, 3/17/18, Mike & Elizabeth Thomas <mbefthomas at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC - interesting design story - 240Z
>   To: "'Tom Shinrock'" <tmshinro at aol.com>, detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
>   Date: Saturday, March 17, 2018, 10:03 AM
>   
>   That was the last good looking Z
>   until '89.  The 79 ZX just got fat and lazy.  Sort of
>   made me think of a Japanese T-Bird
>   .
>   
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com>
>   On Behalf Of Tom Shinrock via DeTomaso
>   Sent:
>   Tuesday, March 13, 2018 10:47 AM
>   To: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
>   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC - interesting
>   design story - 240Z
>   
>   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]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. https://zhome.com/History/StylingMatsuo/MatsuoZStory1.htm
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