<![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours! - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours! - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> The rear spoiler is hollow, and has a pretty large volume. All the better runnin' coke into New Jack City.

hootjigga

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> The He-Man mural on the front is a little much, but other than that I would drive it. In fact, I would totally drive it. All it's missing is an engine, transmission and skull shifter knob and it's good to go. This is no way sarcastic. Seriously. Someone buy this for me.

mwoeber

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Sad, really. The poor little Z has such a happy, hopeful expression; he has never seen himself in a mirror.

Seriously, start with a little rattle matte black paint over those stripes and "awesome" and you're on the way to recovery.

NovaloadMissesPolar

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Louvers, purple window tint, curb feelers, fuzzy dice, and a windshield banner, and you're there!

SweetZombieJesus

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Just when I'm ready to go on a rampage about incorrect Jersey stereotypes, unfortunately my memory has to step in and say, "oh, yeah."

SweetZombieJesus

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Bah. It still needs raised white letter tires, a t-top conversion, and one of those louvered rear window covers. Then it'd be complete.

Tomsk

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> "Oh no!
It is the devil Z!
Run away before it entrances you and forces you to kill yourself with speed!"

Oh god Wangan Midnight sucks. That car, on the other hand, is awesome.

karan1003

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> I love the 240Z and this guy ruined one.

GatoRat

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> I'm pretty sure the lettering on the chin spoiler resulted from the first words spoken by anyone when asked about the V8/Z combination...

This car needs to be preserved in a museum. It's that friggin' indicative of the era.

waynecramp

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Just to put the "awesome" in perspective--I seem to remember that was Datsun's advertising catchphrase circa 1980 or so. Kinda like seeing a Heartbeat of America" decal on a late 80s Chevy, in a time capsule sort of way.

sabrepwr

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> There's a wizard on the gas cap, too. Wicked!

kleinlowe

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> @workingonyourinvoice: Someone had to. It's a good thing no one cares how much internetting I do at work.

Paul Y. can't think of a better, shorter handle

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Did the original owner look like Andrew Dice Clay.

Ayyyyyyy.....fugget about it!

dbol1977

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> @Meat Farley: That car is giving me...Double Vision

Dr.Danger, Hasta la victoria siempre!

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> MOST. JALOPNIK. PAINT JOB. EVER.

Suba-dude

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> I didn't know a 240Z was a selectable character in Gauntlet. Must be an unlock.

"240Z needs food."

CARBOMB

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Lets see...the sweet old Caddie and right below it this. Which one looks like the booger?

Chuckie_A

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> If there was ever a car that screamed out to the heavens for a chrome skull gear knob, this was it. Good Lord. I want it.

Jorsh

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> no no no

Picarso

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Looking at this thing, my brain just stopped. No witty comments about 'awesome', no chuckles at the bodywork, just...nothing. I feel so...empty. Hello? Agent Mulder? Anyone? I'm so alone...so alone...[voodoojoo has been whisked away to a parallel universe where this Datsun makes sense].

voodoojoo

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> @Paul Y. is Going Dumb at the Sideshow: Damnit. Beat me to it.

workingonyourinvoice

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> All the 80's haterade aside, with a nice solid color paint job, this would be a nice looking car. Finish up the small block install, or put a VG engine in it, solid color on the interior, swap out the hood, you'd have a nice ride. Yeah, you could pull everything off and do a full restore on it, but you'll have a lot more money in it than you could ever realize from it.. believe me, I know....

Vintage Racer is out taking pictures

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Now that's something.

beercheck

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Must. Not. Buy. Car. And. Leave. As. Is. With. Awesomeness.

Seriously. I'd just drop an RB26 or something (Nissan) in it and call it a day. Leave the patina. Drop a system in it. Drive around with Phil Collins blaring from the system. Get a sweet skull for the back window with the light up blinking red eyes. Wear aviators. Wear a members only jacket.

Seriously. This is dangerous. I can buy this and not even be concerned about the cash. Hurry. Someone else take it. I'm getting the shakes.

petedmeatv

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> I like it - the styling is classy and restrained - as the styling on any proper sports car would be. In fact, it doesn't need an engine - it is that awesome. I'd buy it just to look at it - I wouldn't want to damage the awesome paintwork.

iantm

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> The 80s were truly terrifying times, people.

bzr

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> "Let's see. I put those bitchin' racing stripes on there. And those sweet cross-lace rims that I scored. Do I put an awesome graphic on the hood?

[Shake, shake, throw]

Yes! A 20! The mural goes on!"

SundaySunday

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> yeah, why isn't there a Burt Reynolds thread, every Friday needs a gen2 F body thread.

tenbeers

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> @Morphine: Um, shouldn't you be on the Burt Reynolds thread?

CharlzR

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> oh i just love it!
minus the missing engine part, this thing is PERFECT!

NICKNICK

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> good thing that anti-hotlink wasn't a goatse/lemonparty/tubgirl

too early for that sh*t

tenbeers

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> The ride height immediately made me think of the Rothmans Porsche 959 Rallye special.

I guess a total lack of engine makes more sense.

FЯeeMan is slowly cЯawling out of the new commenting system

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> @UDMan: When you put it that way, it starts to make sense. I can picture myself now, in full porn star regalia, driving through the Heavy Metal Boob Mountain Range with a leggy blond in a metal bikini shooting her crossbow at the dragons circling overhead.

dolo54

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> "Can I take your order please, sir?"

"Yes, I'll have a 1973 Datsun 240Z smothered in your finest 1980's Malaisonaise, please."

POLAЯ

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Something my father once said about the Vietnam war seems to apply in this situation.
"the road to hell is filled with good intentions..."

deckard97

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Someone clearly had a vision of what the most awesome car in the world would look like and they put a great deal of effort into realizing that vision. When you think of all the hours spent working on the car, and the designing and redesigning to get everything just perfect, the heart and soul that went into this project.......it's really quite tragic.

Uncle Bo, ironically aestheticized

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> This car is EXTREAMLY [sic] freakin' malaistastic!

Embrace the malaise. You cannot escape it. It is inside you (or will be, whether you like it or not)

smalleyxb122

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Three words come to mind when I see that car.... Cheesy Porn Star.
1) Male: Dark long curly hair, hairy chest, handlebar mustache, gold chain, wild print shirt with almost all buttons undone, extremely tight leather pants, black boots, lame expression, oh and maybe sunglasses.

2) Female: Very Long blond "windswept" hair, bright red lipstick, pouty expression, large breasts, print leotard, fishnet stockings, 4 inch heels, oh, and her mouth is open just a bit.

UDMan

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> @cyclopticgaze: yeah I like those seats. There was also a z maroon which would match pretty good I imagine.

dolo54

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> I'm with the guys who want to buy it to undo this indignity. It is, after all, a solid 240Z and you don't see many of those anymore.

Mike the Dog

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Snootch to the motherfuckin nootch

Dr.Danger, Hasta la victoria siempre!

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Official Cougar Bait of the 1973 Indianapolis 500!
Gordon Johncock, "AWESOME" (argh) Edition...

POLAЯ

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> I gotta say that those Recaro seats are indeed "friggin' sweet", though. They'd look hell of awesome in a period-correct orange 2002 (Inka).

cyclopticgaze

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> The bodykit's not so bad. I would just give it a paint job and fix the hood. and maybe an engine.

dolo54

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> @tenbase: God no it smells like a used diaper filled with Indian food.....

OldeEnglishD misses Polar

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Heh, Tony, let's hop in the turbozee and go get a pie. I'm stahvin' ova ere.

cyclopticgaze

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> It looks like someone took a perfectly decent Z and tried to turn it into a Filipino Jeepney. I'll have to tell yall what a hellish nightmare driving in Manila is like one day, this gave me flashbacks.

instant_karma

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Maybe if somebody on the Houston Astros baseball team wants to really show up the rest of the team for their "throwback jersey weekend", then this car could find an owner with deep enough pockets to fix the wiring issues. Otherwise, it's off to the pick 'n pull yard.

goatrope

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Great, JUST GREAT! Now every time I even see the word "AWESOME"
(UGH, there it is again!!) somewhere, ANYWHERE, I'll picture this car!!
THAT'S JUST FRIGGIN' AWESOME (ARRGH, there it is again, DAMMIT!!),
thanks guys!!

POLAЯ

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> We know Steve Wozniak drove (or at least shilled) the 280Z. Is this Kevin Flynn's ride of choice?

Maymar the technophobe

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> excuse me, is that Sex Panther you're wearing?

tenbeers

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> @SLR_BlowerMania: Definitely thinking about dragons looking for this tailpipe.

Sad part is this is a total waste of a 240Z. On the other hand, it is the perfect picture of Malaise Era modifications.

cgarison

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> @reefer:
I would assume that it's high in the front because there IS NO ENGINE. Usually, less weight makes a car ride a tad higher. Especially if the front springs were stiffened for the V8.

LexicalConverter

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> ignoring all the over the top mods, the car IS remarkably solid and rust free. Seeing that the car is still under 2K, a Purist might purchase and bring back to original ie: lose the graphics, fix the hood and get rid of all the IMSA bodywork and v8 transformation crap. I however would embrace the PCH of it all and find me a nice new crate motor and drop it in there. Shag carpets to match the door panels and would grow a cheesy mustache and wear my members only jacket once again!!!

monsterajr

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> @Ben Simons: So you're saying the guy was a Catholic Priest?

Sorry, that was tasteless.....

OldeEnglishD misses Polar

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time.

smokeydog001

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Good thing they banged off all those pictures before the real owners of that house came back home! They would've been pissed to see that parked out front!

POLAЯ

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> DATSUN 1973 240Z RESTO ROD...IN HEATED STORAGE FOR 25 YEARS ...19,721 ORIGINAL MILES...A ONCE IN A LIFETIME FIND.*

*Application to change your name to Dirk Diggler not included.

POLAЯ

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Somewhere out there.....The Dragon's are looking for a tailpipe on this Z.
Ohhh Yeah...

SLR_BlowerMania

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> @OldeEnglishD:

he was probably targeting little boys while cruising in that thing.

with that car as his bait i am sure he got plenty of "dates"...

Ben Simons

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Words fail me. Someone needs to go punch his momma.

I did see one of these that was well done once. Apparently they had put a small block Mopar engine in it because the badges had been changed to "340Z" - heh.

mytdawg

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> I don't NEED no instructions to know how to rock...

MEEEDLYMEEEDLYMEEEDLY WAAAAHHH DOODADOOTDAYWEEEEEEEEE

Meat Farley

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Looks like a car O'Bannion (and Affleck himself) would drive.

Man, I hate that guy...

SeanKHotay

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> I bet this comes with the Zac Morris style cell phone.

Hoser Dave

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> So if the decorations on the body are to be believed, it was a Chevy powered, turbocharged, airbrushed Z. And it was awesome.

Oh yes, yes it was.

Pixel

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Judging from the "art" on the hood, Ima gonna guess he was a big Manowar fan.

DannyBN

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Holy crap!

It might as well say "2 Wyckyd" on the side...

Of course now that I want to find a picture of Carl's car from ATHF, I can't. Damn.

Paul Y. can't think of a better, shorter handle

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> LS7 in this, now.
time for some super sleeper potential.

GreenVanMan

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> "East bound and down, loaded up and truckin',
we're gonna do what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I'm east bound, just watch ol' "Bandit" run . . ."

Morphine

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> I picture the guy who owns this as a serious D&D geek who used this vehicle to cruise the Junior Highs looking for a date for Saturday nights, sadly he never found one......

OldeEnglishD misses Polar

]]> <![CDATA[1980s New Jersey Time Capsule: 19K-Mile Datsun 240Z Could Be Yours!]]> Sweet!

Did all the 240z's of the era have such wheel gap in the front? or did the guy go alittle overboard on the springs because of the SBC?

reefer

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