That '70s Car

摘要

From its stunning introduction in 1970 until its whimpering demise some 26 years later, more than a million people bought some version of the Datsun Z. As a subculture, former I owners are a tenacious lot―Stone Age Amazonian tribes have shown less resilience. The Z people gather at annual Z happenings, upload Z fan pages on the Internet, scribble treatises in "newZletters," and―like ginny colonialists for whom Myanmar will always be Burma―lament the day Datsun became Nissan. As far back as 1998, when spies caught wind of a possible reintroduction of the car, former Z drivers have focused their powerful obsession toward the rising sun, counting the hours until rebirth.