“For the most part, from 1979 to 1991, I drove the 240Z summers, stored it winters, and used it less and less as my family grew,” he reports. The year was 1979, and he finally had his dream car. The 13-hour trip went without a hitch, John reports. The car appeared to be as described, money changed hands, and father and son made plans for the 600-mile return drive. “I was in love with the car immediately, but tried not to show it,” John admits. The seller met them at the Holiday Inn O’Hare Airport. So John, who was still in college at the time, made plans to fly out with his dad to inspect the car. He patiently waited for the photos of the car to arrive via the mail–Polaroids, he adds–and liked what he saw. It wasn’t John’s dream hue of red, but perhaps this was the one. The seller was the original owner, having purchased the car while stationed in Hawaii. He eventually expanded his search beyond his hometown of Rochester, New York, and finally spied an ad for a promising car being offered a few hundred miles away in Chicago: “1970 Datsun 240Z, stereo tape, no rust, low mileage, number 3833, excellent condition, $3000.” Good examples, though, either exceeded his budget or sported too much rust. Other cars quickly followed, but he didn’t forget his original love. That day it became my dream car.”Ī good, early 240Z was out of John’s price range once he came of driving age, so he settled for a 1969 Mustang. An ultra modern jet-black cockpit with the coolest gauges deep set in the dash. “I was allowed to have a seat behind the wheel, and immediately fell in love. “It had similarities to the Jag, but with a sleek hatchback body that I actually preferred to the Jag’s drop top. The next year, John saw something he liked even better: A friend of his dad’s showed up with a Datsun 240Z. When he was 12 years old, his dad came home with a brand-new 1970 Jaguar XKE. Like a lot of us, John can trace his infatuation with sports cars back to his more impressionable days. Actually, a small clarification: He kind of wound up having to restore the car twice.
In the end, though, he wound up totally restoring his Datsun 240Z.
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Restoration Photography Courtesy John TaddonioĪll that John Taddonio wanted to do was install some stiffer springs.
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