Chapter 1: The Birth
October 2009, I'd been searching for a first car for a about 6 months now, I'd gone through stages such as wanting a TC Cortina, to wanting a VC Valiant, however on the way to a Mopar swap meet, I saw a mint black 280ZX fly by us, and it was then that I knew the 280ZX was the car for me.
I spent 2 months looking for a 280 but they were all rust buckets, condemned to the Z graveyard. In October, I found a fairly straight, rescueable 280 roller, but I didn't keep it without a fight.
As soon as I'd won the auction, I was contacted by a 'previous owner' of the Z, trying to explain that the current seller had stolen the 280 body as part of a failed 'insurance plan' in selling his Torana. His argument quickly shifted to the roller being of sentimental value to him as his brother who had been diagnosed with cancer had once owned it. This didn't fly as it took about 4 days for him to tell us this, so I kept it.
It's a 1982 S130 2+2 in maroon with red velour interior. Wires were cut and going everywhere, it leaked like a sieve, there were patches of rust in curvy places and it had received a decent knock to the drivers front corner, but I loved it all the same.
