Datsun 280Z Colorado Springs.

 

The 280Z's immediate predecessor, the 240Z,  had established a whole new way of thinking about Japanese cars in North America. In the Sixties and into the Seventies, they were mostly econoboxes, practical, cheap and often more reliable than the Detroit iron of the day–the Datsun 510 more or less established the genre in North America. Then along came the sporting Z cars, starting tin 1969. They made the British sports car imports of the day seem even crankier than they were. The 280Z has Bosch file injection, a step up from the carburetor'd 240.