240z on Top Gear

[black gold man]

On history ch right now tanner picks 240z for life car.  S7 Ep 04  http://www.history.com/shows/top-gear/season-8/episode-4

Edited May 11, 2016 by black gold man

[jwtaylor]

Yea, it was sad that they got a '73 that had starting problems.  Actually,  maybe that was done on purpose. 

 

[jwtaylor]

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Edited May 14, 2016 by jwtaylor
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[black gold man]

I was watching a show called fameless and they were at jay leno's garage .  In the background parked outside was a orange z it looked like same car.

[siteunseen]

I watched "Dinner for Schmucks" the other day for the first time, and heard this;

Tim: Jesus Christ! Are you okay?
Barry: Ahh, yeah. I'm okay. Is that a Porsche?
Tim: Yeah.
Barry: Oh wow...I have been hit by a Datsun before, but never a Porsche.

[ta240]

I went from "awesome! they got a Z" to "oh really, and it is the only car that won't start"

Looks like it had a 4 barrel conversion.

It was also frustrating that they had the time and money to change out the tires and wheels for the dirt track at the end but not to get it running right.  

But my wife may have been right with her comment that it is a bit hard to find a cheap enough Z for them to trash on the show that runs decently. 

In the 3rd picture, what is going on over on the passenger side floor and doesn't the shifter seem to be at an odd angle?

And in the 4th picture as they pan across, where is the clutch pedal?

Edited May 21, 2016 by ta240

[dmorales-bello]

Whichever way you look at it, the picture it paints of the "legendary" Z is not very desirable.  

[ta240]

Exactly.   Which is really bad considering, at least in my experience with 3 difference Z's over hundreds of thousands of miles, they are hard to kill.

It should have run circles around their other two choices.

It reminded me a bit of another show about a decade ago where they'd give two teams cars to modify over a day and then drag race and the winning team would get both cars.  I thought it was cool when they did 240Z's but then they gave them the 4 barrel carb setups and didn't spend any time tuning the cars.  When they pulled off the line it looked like you could have outran them on foot.

[ta240]

I hadn't even noticed that they added fender flairs for the dirt track portion.  And they couldn't be bother to get it running?

Edited May 21, 2016 by ta240

[SteveJ]

Noticing how far forward the gear selector is, I would postulate that the Z has an autotragic transmission with a modified gear selector.