NICOclub covers the 2012 Formula Drift Championship: Final Round from Irwindale Speedway… enjoy the action!
Day of the Cobra…A Mountain Story
[This story appeared previously (Oct 2003) on a site devoted to 350Zs. At the time I had owned my Z for about 6 months. I’ve reprinted it exactly as it appeared]. “. . . I was alone, I took a ride, I didn’t know what I would find there. . . “ I was in […]
My First Time in a Datsun 610
They say you never forget your First Time. You’ll always remember the short beat of the heart when you first saw her, the anticipation you felt when you realized that she was yours, the dreamy sensuality that overcame you as you gently washed her body, feeling every curve and contour for the first time.There’s that […]
Only Guy to Call me Dude
If you are ever in Arizona, you should go by the Grand Canyon. In April of ’03 , the Florida Z had less than 5000 miles on it when we arrived at the Canyon. It went in the unpaved North Way, along the Navajo Trail paralleling the edge, and parked itself in front of the […]
Part 1 of the Fantasy Test Drive
It was five years ago this week when, with a predestined wild hair making itself known, I bought my new 350Z. I traded in a perfectly good 2000 Maxima for it. It was really the first time that the dealer had a reasonable supply of new Zs, and he knew what he had; I had […]
Stories About Cars
Of all the possible things for me to focus on–women, or fine art, or making a buck; the whitewater wash of a river, skyscrapers, and possibly, Hillary as President of Us All, I tend to focus mostly on the automobile. It’s been a long and determined focus, too, one stretching back to my “learning the […]
Part 2 of the Fantasy Test Drive
By now, a third of the way into the Marathon Test Drive of my spankin’ new ’03 350Z, I had learned a few vital things about the car. First, it attracts attention, so there is a large hubris factor in owning a small orange sports car that nobody can identify. Secondly, on these long, 600-mile […]
Part 3 of the Fantasy Test Drive
It was five years ago, the Ides of May, when I pulled into my midnight driveway after the longest single day of travel yet. 800 miles, a record for one day behind the wheel, from Little Rock to Ocala, via Vicksburg and Chattanooga. My final mountains. The end of the Test Drive. Florida, even in […]
Gas Rant
The “low fuel” light on the gas gauge in the dash of my G Coupe began blinking, a sight as rare as chicken lips. I pulled into a nearby Kangaroo, pumped in 17 plus gallons and, chit, I just spent $71.00 to fill the tank!!!Never in my existence have I spent that much for a […]
And now a Hurricane
One of the reasons I chose to live in the little nowhere town of Ocala is its distance from the Atlantic or the Gulf. After living in coastal Ft Myers and low-lying Tampa for over 30 years without a significant storm affecting me, I decided that my string was about played out and the Law […]