Found some pictures of my first project car. Shortly after getting my license, I inherited my dad's silver 1975 Datsun 280Z. At the time I was working at a hamburger joint as a bus boy, but when I got the car, I decided to make a career change and got a job pumping gas at the local Chevron station. As boring as pumping gas and cleaning the station might sound, it was one of the best jobs I ever had because I got to mess with my car at night. Because I did a good job at keeping the service area cleaned and organized, the mechanics would leave me with the keys to their toolboxes, giving me access to stellar collection of Snap-On tools that I could use to work on my car in the evenings. Other than headers, cat delete, dual exhaust, and modified throttle body, I didn't do a whole lot of performance work to the car. Changing cams would have required that I switch to side draft Mikuni carbs, and as a highschool kid I didn't have the funds. Eventually that silver car was finished off with a cheap $300 Color Glow West white paint job (which turned out nice because my buddy's mom owned the paintshop and we did the prep work ourselves), and a set of Enkei92 mesh wheels. I pegged the speedo many times in the Z and I'm still alive to tell about it. This car made lots of memorable road trips and general mischief possible, and will always be dear to my heart.