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megashawn
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Ivan, I never knew you was a Z man, I too have some wild Z tales.
In fact, I've about got a mirrored life of yours, just starting in the 80's. I've been dirt biking since I was 4, god the crazy storys I've got, I'll fill you in on those when I have more time.
Right now I'm driving a 1980 280zx, paid $250 with no wheels, needed a clutch and break work. About $500 later and I've got a 140 mph car for under 1g. My previous Z, which I still own is a 79, similar body style. The older Z's were notorious for stunts you mentioned, while in 79 they widened the body, tweaked the suspension and created some monster handling cars for the day. Its also worth noting that nissan claims that every year a Z car was produced (I'm not talking about the pansy 300's, inlines only) it outperformed that corresponding years Corvette.
I've never looked into this claim, but I certainly believe it, as I've smoked many a 80's models corvettes in my 79. Anyhow, on to the crazy story. I had a break proportioning valve, so I could remove all the pressure from the rear breaks, so this made for doing good, 50+yard burnouts.
So I'm in the middle of smoking out the neighborhood one day, when I notice blue lights peaking through the cloud of smoke. Sure enough, the man is hot on me. So I pull out of the spin, and accelerate away, getting upto around 130 mph, (this car was good for 160+), and while I was pulling away from the man, I feared continuing strait. So I prepared to take a 90 degree left hander, slowed to about 90 mph, 4 wheel drifting onto the road, but couldn't pull out of the drift. Fortunatly, the transition from road to grass was nice and smooth, no ditch, and a empty grass field which I continued doing over 70 mph, back onto the road and never blinked.
Once I was certain I lost the cop, I returned home, and promptly changed my underpants. :)
In fact, I've about got a mirrored life of yours, just starting in the 80's. I've been dirt biking since I was 4, god the crazy storys I've got, I'll fill you in on those when I have more time.
Right now I'm driving a 1980 280zx, paid $250 with no wheels, needed a clutch and break work. About $500 later and I've got a 140 mph car for under 1g. My previous Z, which I still own is a 79, similar body style. The older Z's were notorious for stunts you mentioned, while in 79 they widened the body, tweaked the suspension and created some monster handling cars for the day. Its also worth noting that nissan claims that every year a Z car was produced (I'm not talking about the pansy 300's, inlines only) it outperformed that corresponding years Corvette.
I've never looked into this claim, but I certainly believe it, as I've smoked many a 80's models corvettes in my 79. Anyhow, on to the crazy story. I had a break proportioning valve, so I could remove all the pressure from the rear breaks, so this made for doing good, 50+yard burnouts.
So I'm in the middle of smoking out the neighborhood one day, when I notice blue lights peaking through the cloud of smoke. Sure enough, the man is hot on me. So I pull out of the spin, and accelerate away, getting upto around 130 mph, (this car was good for 160+), and while I was pulling away from the man, I feared continuing strait. So I prepared to take a 90 degree left hander, slowed to about 90 mph, 4 wheel drifting onto the road, but couldn't pull out of the drift. Fortunatly, the transition from road to grass was nice and smooth, no ditch, and a empty grass field which I continued doing over 70 mph, back onto the road and never blinked.
Once I was certain I lost the cop, I returned home, and promptly changed my underpants. :)
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My guess is that you are lucky to be alive? I'd bet you have quite a few close calls to talk about. 