Hi all,

well, it's not a Z but I think it's interesting to see that NISSAN is officially engaged in this year's Paris-Dakar desert rallye with it's Pick up and the drivers Vatanen and Shirozouka are performing well. Informations are at www.dakar.com

Rolf

Dakar hero info,

Did you know that Ari Vatanen was born in North Karelia. Same region that I live in. He was born in Tuupovaara which is under 60 miles from Joensuu my hometown. He had a rally center that carried his name Ari Vatanen Rally center. Now it is just on new ownership and the name is Rallycenter Finland http://www.rallycenterfinland.fi/

http://www.tuupovaara.fi Tuupovaara homesite

http://www.jns.fi My hometown

Lesson nro.1 NorthKarelian history=)

260z,

Ari is well know by Australian motorsport enthusiasts as the guy behind the wheel of the Peugot 205 in that spectacular 15 min video "Climb Dance".

I never get tired of watching it!

halz!!

can you make me a copy of your pikes peak vid.

have not seen that footage in years

Sure money could change hands.

e-mail if your interested

Alas, the tape is dead. My copy was a copyofacopyofacopy... so it was pretty scratcy. You can get an original video from the Pitstop Bookshop in town... worth the investment if you ask me!