300zx Commercial.

[NervGS]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csgmgz4ITCw

Zero to... AWESOME.

-glenn

[thatdrifterguy]

come alive! come and drive! maaaaaajor motion! lol

[yarou]

Hahahaha, I love it. Almost as awesome as BLACK GOOOOOLD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWF-hH1nloo

[Bud Brown]

lmfao the 80s were great

[Dousan_PG]

this one is still my fav

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwMG7ifuTjQ

Van halen

and ken cracks me up
pussy!

i loved that commercial. remember being a kid and laughing everytime i saw it. awesome!

[Ian]

Haha aaron, i remember that commercial when i was a kid


i had no idea it was a nissan commercial

[WILDACEX187]

AWESOME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K86KDu--aXM&mode=related&search=

give it up for paul and....peppy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnFL8gibrqY&mode=related&search=

be nice to geeks, they can grow up to become race car drivers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxd9jjzPtOI

[boomzilla]

So my parents bought one of those black gold 280ZX'es back when they first came out. I grew up thinking that car was the coolest car ever. Yeah yeah, look at the other cars out at the time. :) For years I would think, "Man! This is going to be my car when I turn 16!" They bought a 3rd car so that they could keep the miles down on the Datsun, so it just sat for years in perfect condition.

Each year right around my birthday I would mention something about the car.."I can't wait till next year, when I'm 16 and you guys let me drive the 280!" "That's way too much car for you, son. You'll kill yourself and then our insurance would go through the roof." Surely they were just messing with me! Why else would they quit driving it and park it in the garage?

I bided my time, keeping quiet about it until my 16th birthday. So that day came, I remember, on a Sunday. It was a nice sunny day so my mom decided to break out the 280zx for the drive to church. When we were leaving church they were going to let me drive it home and they would follow in the Oldsmobuick! Imagine the glee and joy I had when my mom hands me the keys and says 'Why don't you drive it home.'

It was providence! I knew it! So I go around to the drivers side, sit down on the gold leather seats and take it in for a sec. I can remember it all to this day. The cow they made the leather seat from had a scar, so there was this slight perforation on the bucket. One would find themselves in the passenger seat and your fingers would absent mindedly run back and forth across the texture of the scar.

Not today! This time I'm in the driver's seat! I turn the key. The straight 6 rumbles to life. I turn off the radio, wanting to enjoy the sounds of the car. It was everything I thought it would be.

I'm thinking the five miles back to the house went by way too quickly as I pull the car into its place in the garage. Handing the keys back to my parents I give them a knowing look. Like they know and I know that this charade will end soon and they will give me the, 'Nah, we were just fucking with you all these years! The car's yours!' talk and we can do the sitcom laugh as the credits roll. Or whatver.

The next day I wake up to voices outside. I get some clothes on, head out to the front yard and spy my car. MY CAR, being driven off by a guy a little older than me. In utter shock, I walk over to my dad to ask him what the hell was going on. After he finishes small talk with the guy's parents he turns to me and answers: "Son, that car was too much power for you. You would end up dead." All I could manage before running inside was, "WHAT ABOUT HIM? DOES THAT MEAN THAT YOU THINK HE CAN HANDLE IT!?!?"

So they come back and try to do the expanded talk, which amounted to 30 minutes of the phrase "you would kill yourself in that car" reworded every possible way. So I pepper them with questions: Why did you hold onto it so long? How much did you sell it for? Why did you let me drive it if you knew they were coming to pick it up the very next day?

We don't know why. $3,500. Because we thought you would like to know what its like to drive the car.

It had 23,000 miles on it. They sold the car they fucking babied for ten years, TEN YEARS, for $3,500 bucks. On the day after their only son's 16th birthday.

What cocksuckers.

What's worse is that I ended up going to the same college the guy who bought the 280zx so I got to see it every fucking day I went to school.

So yeah, Black Gold.

[yarou]

Fuck, thats horrible. +rep for your endeavor

[SexPanda]

Wow thats just awesomely 80's right there. Shit I wouldnt mind having half that technology on my car though. It has adjustable suspension, it measures G forces, it slices, it dices... What didnt that thing have jeez.

But yeah man that sucks about the 300...