If you had your current Z in high school...
 

Driving to work and a song comes on that reminds me of high school. Like many southern California schools, mine had a lot of people (around 5k students), so there were plenty of cars around. The cool car then ( early 80's) were throwbacks...a VW Karmann Ghia or a 67 Mustang. (I did have one friend who had a slightly used RX-7, but he was rare. The rest of us had older cars.)

So then I thought...what if I drove my current Z back then? Yes, I know it was only the 280 or 300 ZX that was the latest model at least in my HS years, but work with me here. If you drove your current Z in high school, how would:

A. You be different (more confident, "stuck-up," happy go lucky, etc.)?

B. Or how might others treat you differently?

Im a youngin, the 350Z was the current Z while I was in high school, if It was my first car I would probably be dead right now lol. Wrapped around a tree

I'd be parts of a corpse on the side of the road. Teenage me would throw my Z off the road backwards at a very high rate of speed. :rofl2:

I'd get laid more (anything greater then 0 is more).

Often.......
and have mediocre grades when I could have done better.
have lots of fun and the best memories.

interesting topic.

a. more confident.... probably yes.
b. others treat you differently... probably yes.
c. would it win you a date with the prom queen? ... probably no. :ugh:


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at the end of the day, if you had a cute girlfriend (or a few) you won. i had a cute gf so my pos civic did fine. :D

'zactly.

I graduated in 1978 and drove a 1969 Datsun 510. I still never got laid.

wow 510! :tup:

:tiphat: It was a 2 door, 4MT...

most excellent! :tup: x2

Wel that explains it. you would have been better off not owning a car. :icon17:

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-...-of-Nissan.jpg

You would have if you drove a 370Z. Ahead of your times you would have been.

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I had a Red 76 280Z 4 speed manual all through high school.
That's how I got bit by the Z bug...

a) probably the same
b) probably the same

lp

did you date the prom queen too then? :ugh2:

For C I think it depends on where you went to school.
My first kiss with my gf was on my very poorly maintained posos (pos of s) 2001 Mercury

I don't think having a 370Z or even a 350Z would have benefited me back in those days. I still got *** and I was over 300LBS. Being the "nice guy" can pay off.

I had a 95 Z28 Camaro (still own) and a 00 RS Eclipse (old lady totalled while in Basic), which were both "cool" cars back then. This wasn't very long ago though. 2004-2005 time frame of my Senior year. There were two cars drove by a couple of guys that I knew, that i was envious of. One was a 90's 300zx TT and the other was a late 80's Supra.

Having an Eclipse, I was a huge DSM fan. Then I remember seeing the 350Z, I fell in love with the design and that is when my real love for Z cars had started.

I can remember seeing the commericals of the Orange 350 and Dave Chappelle even making a skit that basically featured a 350. My Dad almost even bought one, but never did.

My passion for the Z followed me through my college years and into the Navy. I purchased an 03 350Z in 2011. Fast forward to 2013 and I find myself still a huge fan of the Z car and driving a 370Z :)

Lets see I graduated in 00, so I would be in a 300zx I believe. Well that would probably make me be 6ft under. My younger self would have killed me by racing down the street and wrapping myself around a pole or a tree.

Graduated in 2000. When I was 16, my dad bought a used '90 Z32-TT auto (still owns it). I didn't know much about Nissan back then since it was all about Honda. However, the car I was learning on was an '87 200SX SE-V6 (S11 Silvia), which I didn't know much about either. We did find an immaculate '94 Z32-TT manual with very low miles, and the owner wanted $23k for it. I would've loved to own it, but I wasn't mature enough to handle and care for one. Although the owner wanted us to test drive it, neither of us knew how to drive a stick and I was still a noob at driving. I did envy the guy who had a fully kitted 300ZX ("rich" parents), and he was picking up girls at my school (he attended a different school).

Anyhow, popular imports at the time were the rare Type-R Integra, S2000, and Civic Si. There were lots of Honda fanboys, and I was a wannabe since I didn't know much about cars. Dad's Z32 changed my perception. That's when I learned of the RX-7 and Supra.

So back then? Nissan all the way baby.

It would have sucked having the Z in HS, means I would have been driving a slower car then I was...lol

if 90ST had a Z back in hs, his odo would be like 15,000,000 miles by now. :ugh:

I got my Z my senior year of highschool
1. I don't think it changed me too much cause the highschool that I went to was soo small (90 students in graduating class) there was no one to impress that wasn't already :rofl2:
2. Like I said not a lot of people really cared, if anything I would have a couple kids trying to talk cars with me or give me the occasional stare down at the light with their carpooling mini van :tup:

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On a side note, I was looking up pictures of some of the cars listed in this thread and came across this.

Probably a re post, but an interesting read.

HowStuffWorks "History of the Nissan Z"

yah, my next diecast will definitely be a modded S30 for sure.

Honest answer?

I would like to say that I would be humble. Honestly I would probably think I'm the coolest kid on the block lol.

If I survived totaling it being stupid it probably would have made much of a difference. I wasn't good with vehicles when I was young, I smashed my moms 325i into a wall showing it off to a cheerleader at around 70 mph in the rain when I had just turned 15 and got to ride in my first helicopter ( I don't remember that part but I still have the scars). 400+HP and me as a teenager would have been bad news!

Graduated in 91, had a hand me down 84 Toyota truck. No A/C, no power anything, lowered it and modified it as much as I could on a high school budget. It was the main mode of transportation to and from parties so it was good for me socially. Like others have said a Z would have helped in the getting laid category, if you have the nicest car or are the best athlete you're getting laid by default. When you have a bad thermostat and are cruising back from the beach with the heater on full blast and a chick in the front seat you're not getting any action.

lowering on a high school budget... you mean like hacksawing the spring shorter? :icon17:

LOL at the heater.

yah, but at least he knew how a car worked. :tup:

i was born a car enthusiast. while others slept with their stuffed animals, i slept with my tomica's. :tup:

I think my 2 year old is the same. Oh no!! A kenchan in my house!!!

:ugh2:;)

i am so sorry. :shakes head:


:rofl2: hahaha. :tup:

Hey, I had a Datsun B210, plus 2 more as parts cars. I never got laid either.

we are starting to see a pattern here... :ugh2:



:rofl2:

The B210 explains your lack of female companionship. My lofty and arrogant attitude that I have been carefully nurturing for more than 50 years helps explain mine.

... or not.

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