26th-Z
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You guys aren't "stuck"!!! I'll be there Thursday, Friday, and Saturday because I bought an airline ticket. Great idea, huh? If you get the urge and want to crash in my room, you might be welcome if you can behave. The Tampa crowd will be well represented, but I still haven't heard what Beck's plans are. Katayama celebrates his 95th Thursday at the track event. We're going to visit Les at Classic Datsun and hit the secret California junk yards. Kats, you can hang with us - we're going to have fun! The mousetachio bar looks great and I can confrim all kinds of little details like the part number marks throughout the car. One particular area has me puzzled - the back plate of my differential has an area where there was obviously an adhesive label. Does anyone know what that looked like? The back plate has a nice rectangular bare spot in the original black paint.
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Ok, twenty photos all loaded up along with a little blurb about the picture. Hope ya'll like 'em! Mike, the rain sucked, frankly. At one point, turn 5 was flooded and cars just went straight off into the gravel. I saw lots of wonderful cars and I want to emphasize how well the Zcrowd turned out with many cars in the Zcorral. They all looked like they were having a great time. I talked to several guys hoping to find someone I recognized from here. Zowners came from as far away as Texas. My drive was only seven hours! For those of you who have never been to Road Atlanta, it's a great course set in the rolling hills Northeast of Atlanta. I always thought it was a roller-coaster ride, with many places the car was completely weighted or unweighted. Turn 3 is a bit of a downhill slide between 2 and 4 as is the hill from the bridge down to pit straight. Changes over the years have added safety and several great spectator areas. There is a new chicane just before the bridge which looks exciting and I can see how it was needed to slow the cars down from the back straight. Atlanta is about as far North as I get, 2ManyZs. I have some friends who get up to VIR with their Porsches. I would love to see Summit Point. The historic races are pretty cool. Cars show up that you would never dream of seeing and the amount of money being spent will stun you. Some guy showed up in a Benneton F1 car painted in early Schumaker livery and promptly stuck it in the gravel. The rain kept a lot of cars inside though. I saw Jim Downing and talked to him for a while. He is selling HANS devices, now, and maintains a stable of vintage cars. This is Jim working inside the NPTI cocpit.
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The car whistles. -
The engine developed by Electromotive is a VG30 - V6, 60 degree, twin valve, turbo-charged by a single Garrett T03 -
After coming down the hill through turns 3 and 4, it's back on the gas through turn 5 and up the hill to 6! -
Derived from a Lola deign, the rear wing was moved back - extending the length of the rear deck - making it a "long tail" configuration for added downforce. -
Air flow from the front ducts was directed undeneath the car in tunnels and out under the wing. Those are titanium half shafts. -
The car was a California wind tunnel design generating over 4000 pounds of downforce. Turbo V6. -
This is Electromotive Engineering NPTI chassis number 8805. The number plate is between the circles in the dash. Serious history - here. -
This car was shown for sale and I described it in the thread. I would imagine $125k to $200k for the car. If anyone buys it, I want a ride, please. -
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This is Turn 5 at Road Atlanta. A great place to watch. -
Take it to the Limit - One More Time.... -
Notice the very nice gunmetal grey Z in the back. With factory headlight covers. -
Balanced Performance brought their tube framed 2.8 L GT racer. The fiberglass body is fastened to the tube frame, front and rear. -
One particularly nice car was this restored '71. That's typical Georgia red clay on the tires. -
About 15 Zcars took advantage of a few parade laps around the track. In the rain! -
Club members on the rainy grid for parade laps
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It seems I have around fifteen pretty good photos of just Datsun / Nissan stuff from the Mitty. If the moderators want to start a gallery, I'll post them all. They are mostly race cars and a couple of Zclub street cars. The rain was so bad that I didn't want to get my camera out very often and everything was wet and the lighting was flat...... This is a pretty good sampling. What do you guys think?
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Jim Fitzgerald 280ZX for sale: Restored in 2001 to IMSA GTU trim and only vintage race once at Road Atlanta. Second prototype 280ZX chassis in the United States. Raced as SCCA C-Production, Trans-Am, and IMSA GTU. (I have competed against this car) Documented history with logbooks. Contact Bob Postell (770) 998-8855 x 103
