So when I got out of college and about a year and a half after I got my first job, I figured I'd get the "top of the line" Datsun which at the time was an 810. I found a 1979 2 door coupe (brown) and bought it in 1986 for $3,500.00 which is the most I've ever spent on a car in my life even to this day. It onlly had 75,000 miles on it.



I drove it for 8 years until and it rotted out from under me. It wound up with 230,000 miles and was still running like a top. It had the six cylinder (2.8l) engine in it that they put in the 280Z. Mine was a five speed which was kind of rare as most were automatics.