Bob why are you considering jettisoning the Z when you turn 80. After all, like fine wine, many things get better with age.

 

Sorry, but this is one thread I'm not joining......

 

The longer I have it the longer I think I am going to have it. That 80 is not set in stone.

 

I am on Facebook too, have 306 friends and posted many picture albums from car shows ranging from Concours D'Elegance/Concorso Italiano in Carmel to Cord/Duesenburg Museum in Auburn Indiana to Barrett Jackson in Phoenix plus a multiplicity of local car shows.

 

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Don't they say if you're young at heart you live longer! Was awesome when you first joined the forum, and just as cool that you're still posting!!! Keep it up.

 

Dang! And I thought I was the only old guy around here (I'll be 48 in a couple of weeks).
I know the first time I went to a meet with the local Z club I expected to be lost in a sea of teenyboppers and twenty-somethings. While admittedly that was the majority of the folks there, there was a much larger than anticipated number of fellow grey-haired folks (male & female!). I think it's often a case of we were into sports cars when we were younger, then family, mortgage, parental responsibilities, etc took over and we had to "be responsible". But now the kids are grown and on their own (and with kids of their own in my case!) and I suddenly find myself with extra time and disposable income --- Time to regress and hit the road!!!! I've always said my goal is to be an 80 year-old juvenile delinquent one day and I'm finally past the halfway point and loving the hell out of my Z!!! Am I too old for this? Possibly. But I've never been known for giving a flying f*** what anyone else thinks in the first place. They say you are only as old as you feel --- well in that case I'm 47 going on 27 and I plan on being around playing with my toys for a LONG time!!!

And I second the idea that we need a subforum for the folks over 35!! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE hangin' out with the younger guys (and showing them how to party old-school style!), but at times some of the threads seem to be taken over by little kids (I know they are not actually little kids, but some of them sure do act like it at times, lol. Buit then again I guess I'm guilty of it too on occassion. But a geriatric subforum would rock!!!!!!

 

Happy to see the Z is loved by young and old alike! Happy motoring! ^..^

 

That's freaking awesome!
I hope I'll have a Z at that age!

 

reading this make me feel sad...knowing that my day birthday is today. He's 59
I hope he will stay in my life longer as can be.

 

I almost thought that I would say goodbye to the Z when, 5 months ago, I was exiting the Merritt Parkway in Norwalk, CT, and one of the slip-on high heels I was wearing slipped off. My right shoe landed under the break pedal, and it pressed down on the gas when I pressed the brake. I hit the poor guy who was stopped at the stop sign. I couldn't believe that the airbags didn't open. I put the Z in my garage, and let it sit there.

I remember back a few years ago when the car slipped on a patch of ice. It bounced between the concrete Jersey barriers, and ended up looking like a "Weeble machine" of (Weeble's wobble culture). I gave it up for 3 months, relieved that I didn't have to drive it....but in reality, I was just giving it a rest.

This past time, I received $4000 for repairs. I ordered a new bumper cover, I bought a can Bondo, paint, and a few parts to straighten it out, and put it back together. I even cut pieces of the old bumper cover, and added an extended lower lip (on the Z, not on me. lol), and created a new air duct unlike Nissan's original design. I even applied red pin stripes on the hood. Everywhere I now go in the Z I get compliments on what a cool car it is. I wish that I personally could get such nice compliments.

I fell in love with my Z when I first saw it at the dealers in 2005. Somehow my Z reflects something inside of me that could have been lost long ago. I am 67 years old. I have 2 beautiful grandchildren who will one day go out into the World, and live it for all that it could give back to them. I owe as much to my Z for what it has given back to me.


huggz,


June

 

That is awesome! At 75 driving a Z?! I feel like a toddler being 17 with one. (Bought it with my money...Not spoiled) Hope many more years of motoring with you and your Z!

 

This thread is awesome and so are all you guys. I hope to live a long and fulfilling life such as yours and get to drive a sports car at that age