Lucky 13

Cruised over to the Nissan headquarters in Franklin on Saturday to check out the National Z Car Show. Not really much for one marque shows (unless they're Mustangs!), but this was a bit more interesting than I had thought it would be. There was an amazing amount of cars, many from Canada, California, Maine, you name it. They estimated over four-hundred, and I'd hasten to say there were probably many more than that. Not many trailer queens at all, literally only a hand-full.

There were extremely un-restored stockers, street modifieds, Z cars with small block Fords or Chevys stuffed in them, and many for real race cars. There was the 1994 300ZX that raced at Le Mans.

This particular Z here is serial number 0013. It is the first ever Z car to set tire in the U.S.A. in 1969. It had disappeared for over thirty years and resurfaced in storage in Connecticut last year. Pretty amazing.

I almost hate going to shows like this, because it always gets the wheels to rolling in my feebed out brain, wondering if I might need a project, you know?