After 6 years of owning DSM’s, I’ve pretty much decided that the perfomance level which I’m now used to (because of the sportbike) is way too expensive to do in a DSM, so I’ve decided to part it out and sell it. Someone should be here this weekend to pick-up the rolling chassis, block, head, transmission and so forth, and in general I have buyers for about half the parts. I think they are great cars, but once you start looking to get in the 11-12 second range (in the 1/4 mile) in them or faster, you’ll find yourself breaking all kinds of parts, and that’s just not worth it nor cost efficent for me.
Instead I think I’m going to go the “classic car” route for awhile– I want something fun in the garage again. I’m really hoping I’ll be able to pick up this ‘76 Datsun 280Z within the next few weeks, but we’ll see.
I’m still pretty undecided about the direction I want to go with the 280Z, so I’ll probably restore the interior over the next year and then decide where to go from there. Part of me wants to upgrade it to a turbo engine, as well as do some body work to modernize the body a little bit, the other part wants me to keep it mostly stock looking, and just do a nice non-aspirated rebuild since it’s in such great shape. Time will tell I suppose.
Ultimately I really would like to get a Supra when I don’t have all of these bills nagging me, but who knows when that will happen. Hopefully before they are out of my price range, as they seem to go up every year.
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