LOTTERY: AEM, Z-Xtreme, "Fairlady Z" emblem, Zee-Bracket
09-16-2003, 11:42 AM
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Wow! That is Good News....
Two prizes for the price of one ticket.........step right up folks.........please......no pushing.......form a straight line.......have your money ready and the line will move smoothly...........get away kid...ya bother me.... now who's next.......there ya are......good luck sir......
lol........this is great can't wait for it to start...
lol........this is great can't wait for it to start...
09-17-2003, 09:59 PM
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Cincyspider.....
I read somewhere that the head of Nissan came to New York years ago........he went to see the play "My Fair Lady". He was very impressed with the play, and since they had a sports car in the development stage.......he decided to name it "The Fairlady".
He thought that the American buyers would love that name. When the car (240Z) was ready to go on the market, all his marketing people begged him not to call it "The Fairlady".......at least not in America. "Americans like cars that have numbers", they said. (Camaro Z-28, Olds 442....etc., etc,)
Finally he gave in and let it be called the 240Z for the American market. 240 had something to do with the displacement (I may be wrong on this) and the Z was simply the engineering designation they had referred to this version of the car as during developement.
The Nissan head still didn't give up on his "Fairlady" idea.......and all the Z's marketed in Japan and the far east were known as "The Fairlady Z"
Hope that answers it for ya cincyspider..............Cincinnati is my home town.....but I live in Los Angeles now........
He thought that the American buyers would love that name. When the car (240Z) was ready to go on the market, all his marketing people begged him not to call it "The Fairlady".......at least not in America. "Americans like cars that have numbers", they said. (Camaro Z-28, Olds 442....etc., etc,)
Finally he gave in and let it be called the 240Z for the American market. 240 had something to do with the displacement (I may be wrong on this) and the Z was simply the engineering designation they had referred to this version of the car as during developement.
The Nissan head still didn't give up on his "Fairlady" idea.......and all the Z's marketed in Japan and the far east were known as "The Fairlady Z"
Hope that answers it for ya cincyspider..............Cincinnati is my home town.....but I live in Los Angeles now........
