Hi , the names Ed , and heres the story of how i came into ownership of a Z32.
A couple of years ago I got sick of running “interesting” (to me at least) cars as daily drivers so I invested in a jeep, a trailer, and a track only 180SX and decided to have a go at this drifting malarkey. In the ensuing 2 years or so, I only managed to get the car on track about 7-8 times.
Whilst the few days I had her on track were an absolute blast and I have memories I will take to my grave, such as getting on the handbrake at 80mph just past the bridge in Mondello to attempt a switch entry into Honda (scary as hell), the remaining 361 days of the year were spent in abject misery as I looked at the car cooped up in the garage, and felt my soul die a little every time I turned on the Santa Fe and waited for the heater plug light to go off.
I longed for the chance to drive something interesting again, and weekends were spent playing Forza whilst beering on and doing man maths to see how I could put some fine Japanese metal outside the front door.
The following morning I would awake and say “todays the day the 180 goes on Donedeal, but I never did as I secretly longed for the next track outing when I could try and push myself and the car a bit harder than the last time.
Then I saw this car go up on for sale on a local motoring website, and I knew I had to have it. I contacted the owner and tried to pull off a cheeky straight swap, but I was denied. I put it out of my mind for a while but one day I spotted it again on Donedeal. With renewed vigor, I put the 180 on DriftIreland and it was gone in a couple of hours.
With an ar.se pocket full of fifties, I contacted the seller, and took it for a spin and bought it a few days later.
So she’s a 300ZX, Non turbo, but she’s still packing a 3 litre quad cam, 24 valve V6 sending about 222hp to the rear wheels, and beautiful noises through the quad pipes out back and I love it.
Sure there are more capable cars out there, that are faster, with better handling and maybe some that look better, but if everyone used their head and bought the widely regarded best car in a given class, then we would have no variety, and every car meet would be a sea of the same model. Plus I love the underdog , when everyone was buying Integra Type R’s I got a ST202 Celica, when the masses bought Civic Type R’s I bought a Levin , when they all rushed to buy Imprezas, I bought a B4 Legacy.
I haven’t done much driving in it so far , as she’s out of tax and will remain so until the winter has passed. But what I have learned from the few hundred kilometers I’ve put up is that it's heavy, its comfy , it can pick up pace relatively effortlessly with a nice bit of midrange grunt, she sounds best at about 20mph in first gear, T-Tops are awesome and because there so few examples in this country most people go “ WTF” when they see it.
Hi , the names Ed , and heres the story of how i came into ownership of a Z32.
A couple of years ago I got sick of running “interesting” (to me at least) cars as daily drivers so I invested in a jeep, a trailer, and a track only 180SX and decided to have a go at this drifting malarkey. In the ensuing 2 years or so, I only managed to get the car on track about 7-8 times.
Whilst the few days I had her on track were an absolute blast and I have memories I will take to my grave, such as getting on the handbrake at 80mph just past the bridge in Mondello to attempt a switch entry into Honda (scary as hell), the remaining 361 days of the year were spent in abject misery as I looked at the car cooped up in the garage, and felt my soul die a little every time I turned on the Santa Fe and waited for the heater plug light to go off.
I longed for the chance to drive something interesting again, and weekends were spent playing Forza whilst beering on and doing man maths to see how I could put some fine Japanese metal outside the front door.
The following morning I would awake and say “todays the day the 180 goes on Donedeal, but I never did as I secretly longed for the next track outing when I could try and push myself and the car a bit harder than the last time.
Then I saw this car go up on for sale on a local motoring website, and I knew I had to have it. I contacted the owner and tried to pull off a cheeky straight swap, but I was denied. I put it out of my mind for a while but one day I spotted it again on Donedeal. With renewed vigor, I put the 180 on DriftIreland and it was gone in a couple of hours.
With an ar.se pocket full of fifties, I contacted the seller, and took it for a spin and bought it a few days later.
So she’s a 300ZX, Non turbo, but she’s still packing a 3 litre quad cam, 24 valve V6 sending about 222hp to the rear wheels, and beautiful noises through the quad pipes out back and I love it.
Sure there are more capable cars out there, that are faster, with better handling and maybe some that look better, but if everyone used their head and bought the widely regarded best car in a given class, then we would have no variety, and every car meet would be a sea of the same model. Plus I love the underdog , when everyone was buying Integra Type R’s I got a ST202 Celica, when the masses bought Civic Type R’s I bought a Levin , when they all rushed to buy Imprezas, I bought a B4 Legacy.
I haven’t done much driving in it so far , as she’s out of tax and will remain so until the winter has passed. But what I have learned from the few hundred kilometers I’ve put up is that it's heavy, its comfy , it can pick up pace relatively effortlessly with a nice bit of midrange grunt, she sounds best at about 20mph in first gear, T-Tops are awesome and because there so few examples in this country most people go “ WTF” when they see it.
Here are a few pictures the girlfriend took.