We've encountered countless Datsun Z-car fanatics over the years ... that took away some of the barn-find purity of the cars. Nevertheless, Nissan's devotion to the car's heritage (while a ...

The 240Z and 510 were of course Datsuns, not Nissans, with the branding switch in the U.S. not happening until 1981. And the ...

He’s not alone. The Datsun and later Nissan Z cars have a half-century of history. Pete Evanow, a professor at California State University, Fullerton who was associated with Nissan racing ...

When I was in high school in the 1970s, the Datsun Z was the ... one through a Nissan dealer; they're identified by a small plaque on the console, just aft of the shifter. The cars were restored ...

The Datsun/Nissan Z-car, introduced as the 240Z as the ... the Z-car was firmly established as a sports-car icon. And another 46,282 Z-cars hit the American roads during 1973.

This 1972 Datsun 240Z was sold for $42,350 ... and, for U.S. cars, battering-ram bumpers more suited to a SWAT vehicle than Nissan’s original concept—thanks Department of Transportation ...

This year marks 55 laps around the sun since the Datsun 240Z introduced the Z car to the world. (Nissan originally marketed its cars under the Datsun brand name and began calling them Nissans in ...

The Nissan Z cars were offered outside of Japan, including in the United States, under the Datsun brand, and they are now considered priceless classics by car collectors. One of the most coveted ...

things like the Nissan Skyline GT-R, Mazda RX-7, and AE86 Toyota Corollas. However, if you step back a little further in history, the S30 chassis Datsun Z cars took the world by storm as an ...

In retrospect, the 240Z not only gave birth to the iconic Z lineup that includes cars like the 370Z and the Nissan Z but also solidified Nissan (or Datsun) into the U.S. market.

But the cars received one noticeable alteration ... So in the same lineup you have the Fairlady Z, the Datsun 240Z, Nissan 300ZX, the other Nissan 300ZX, 350Z, and many more-- right up to the ...

From the June 1970 issue of Car and Driver. The difference between the Datsun 240Z and your everyday three-and-a-half thousand dollar sports car is that about twice as much thinking went into the ...