Hey all, just wanted to say ... I FINALLY joined the family of Z owners! I've been lurking on the forum, and wanting a 350Z for years. I test drove a dozen+ over the past four years-worth of car bugs, and the time finally came for me to buckle down and get dead serious about the quest about a month ago. I found myself a *very* clean 2008 Touring M/T, gray interior, with only 16k on the odo. I'm loving it. I can't express enough, how excited I am, but I'll attempt to through a few photos ...

I went from this:



... to this:









... the last photo is with my good friend's 1994 RX-7 TT. That thing is one slick ride, too.

Thanks for checking out the thread!

 

Congratulations. Nice car.

 

Don't get rid of your big rig, you'll need to haul stuff.

 

Congrats

 

Very clean... How much did you get it for out the door?

 

Welcome

 

Nice, another Carbon Silver on the forums, I have a Touring also. Welcome and enjoy the ride.

 

Nice pics what kind of camera did you use

 

nice.. i love the carbon silver.. and finally some high quality pics.. very nice upgrade.

 

looks great! congratulations, you and your friend are going to have a lot of fun!

 

Hey guys, thanks a lot for the 'grats and kind words about the car. I'd been looking for a low mileage carbon silver T/GT, M/T for quite some time. It's not necessarily easy tracking down exactly what you're looking for when you get as granular as color, mileage, trim level, & tranny, but it was worth the wait.

As for the photos, I was using a Canon 40D. In one of the shots, I used a couple of off-camera flashes (Vivitar 285HV) triggered remotely by Cybersyncs.

Here's one more that I didn't post because I am not crazy about portrait shots, and the flashes were set a bit too powerful:

 

Awesome photos! Can't go wring with Canon.

 

Thanks for the compliment! True that. Though I'm all about Canon, any of the major brands - especially Canon and Nikon - offer a kickass array of gear once you've subscribed to building a system around one of them.

 

congrats, nice upgrade...another Z member from Houston

 

Welcome

Nice ride! Are you finding it hard to adjust from having SO much room/cargo room and now having maybe 15% of that cargo room?

Also, I love the photography. Good set (it's nice to see the depiction away from a typical congested street/road, street signs, etc..). Good use of contrast and of the lighting on most of those as well

 

welcome, and nice shots. well worth the wait.

 

*SALUTE* Houston and Texas in general seem to have a solid presence on this forum. Pretty cool!


It is still too new to answer this question with any credibility. I am single with no kids, and I rent (& generally subcontract moving hehe), so my need for cargo capacity isn't the same as some other folks'. And frankly my desire to drive a Z outweighed my desire to have hauling capacity - I mean having a Z has literally been a dream of mine for years. I'm sure there will come a time that I need cargo space, but I'll figure it out when the time comes hehe.


Thanks! No doubt about being well worth the wait. Although I won't pretend the wait was easy (patience is not a virtue of mine) - I was able to get *exactly* what I wanted, so I'm pretty thrilled about it (if I haven't made that clear in this thread already haha).

 

love that color, nice pics as well! welcome

 

Very Nice back drop photos!!!

 

I hear ya. Same setup with me, single and no kids. I've wanted a Z for years and finally paid off my other car, so figured I'd get a fun car and keep my other for long distance driving I often drive on a 500 mile round-trip some weekends (usually 1-2 times per month), so I don't want to rack up the mileage on the Z! Besides, upper-20's in MPG on Regular gas vs lower-20s on Premium gas... it's a $20 difference per fill-up!
Didn't have as much cargo space in my other car as you did in your previous vehicle, but still have 2 or 2.5x as much as I do in the Z...