Saturday, August 30, 2008

Midlife crisis, 6 years early




I've been hankering for an impractical, temperamental, gas-swilling weekend conveyance for a while now. Dad and I went and looked at a pristine El Camino last weekend - well, it turns out that my cherished memories of the El Camino are best left as that. Completely out of the blue, because they fell into my narrow craigslist price range search, I became interested in old Datsun Z cars.

And today, I bought one. I think it frikkin' rules. It rattles, squeaks and only ventilates you when it feels like it. But just LOOK at it. T-tops, 6 spoke wheels and Ferrari red. And the interior is even decent. And it's got a great inline-6 tractor sound.

Plus, you owe it to yourself to check out the youtube ads. The 280ZX had one of the finest ad campaigns I've ever seen. Steve Wozniak and BLACK GOLD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9RX0mBZ0HA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWF-hH1nloo

3 comments:

rachel said...

it's never too early for a midlife crisis, i've found.

Anonymous said...

agreed, this car roflpwnz

Ceridwen said...

I like that the front is vaguely Porsche-ish.