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Event Report: CSRG Cars and Coffee 2/24

Filed under: 240z,350z,510,Events,Nissan Z
by Alvin G @ 5:10 pm on February 25, 2024

 

Last Saturday Z Car Garage gathered a group of vintage cars to attend Cars and Coffee at SIM Racers Group in San Jose. We had a great time and thank everyone for hanging out with us. Thanks to Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) for hosting! Enjoy the photos below.

 

We caravanned from Z Car Garage around 8:15am with close to 25 cars!

 
 
 

Arriving at Sim Racers Group with 40 cars and good times. We enjoyed chatting with everyone and testing our skills on the simulators.

 

Here are a few Z Car Garage clients in attendance:


Larry Chen’s SR20DET-powered 1970 Datsun 240Z is back at Z Car Garage. He dropped it off from SoCal for a few more wishlist items. Stay tuned for updates on this Series 1 S30 featuring Z Car Garage Big-Brakes (Stoptech), ZCG CV Axles, KW suspension and dyno-tuned SR20DET.

 

Matt’s KA24DE-T Datsun 510


Lora B’s R35 GT-R

 

Kurt’s iconic VG30ET-powered 510, “The Strutless Wonder”

 

Lou’s Series 1 1970 Datsun 240Z

 

Kurt’s 1973 Kenmeri Skyline


 

Linda’s 2023 Proto-Spec Z

 

Armon’s 1973 Datsun 240Z


Craig’s 2004 Nissan 350Z

 

Alex’s Sunny Truck

 

Geoff’s 1966 Cortina and Eric’s 1964 Mercury Comet

 

Nick’s Samurai and Josh’s VW Bug:

 

There was a great variety of cars like this Datsun Violet 710 and 1st-gen Mazda RX-7:

 

Thank you to Linda Williams, Matthew Knine Lijon, Kurt Wubbels, Eric Rumpf, Cooper and Geoff Wise for sharing their photos!

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EVENTS: CSRG Cars and Coffee February 24

Filed under: 240z,510,Events,Racing
by Alvin G @ 5:10 pm on January 27, 2024


Join us on Saturday, February 24 for Cars and Coffee at SIM Racers Group in San Jose. Z Car Garage would like to gather a group of vintage cars to attend. Bring out your Datsun, BMW, Alfa or any old-school marque. Stay tuned for caravan details on zcarblog.com Thanks to Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) for hosting!

 

 

 




EVENTS: Cars & Coffee Blackhawk 6/7

Filed under: Events,Featured Cars and Projects
by Alvin G @ 12:02 am on June 9, 2015

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On Sunday we attended Cars & Coffee at the Blackhawk Museum in Danville, CA. Hosted every first Sunday of the month since the New Year, turnout continues to be phenomenal with impressive cars. Our dear friend Ken P. has been a regular at this gathering with his supercharged Datsun Roadster but Sunday’s event would be his last one before moving out of state. As one last hurrah to Ken we assembled a bunch of Datsuns to park together.

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We left the shop at 6am with a brisk pace headed to Danville. Enjoying the Ride in our eight-car caravan was Rob’s ’67 2000, Kurt’s ’70 Datsun SPL, my ‘67.5 SPL,  Matt’s Datsun 510 wagon, Andy’s 1971 240z, Tom’s APS G35, Kurt I’s C5 Z06, and Lou’s R32 Skyline GT-R:

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Arriving in Blackhawk just before 7am was indeed mandatory to secure parking as cars were already lining up at the entrance. Thankfully Ken and Dave P taped off a section just for Datsuns, and the showing was great with more roadsters, Z’s and 510s!

Francis ’67 SPL, Ken’s supercharged SRL, my ’67 SPL and Dave P’ ’67 2000:

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Matt D’s 510 wagon and Matt G’s KA-T 510 two-door:

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S30’s were in strong attendance, both in our corral and scattered through the lot. From mild to wild flavors it was great to see everything from Z32 TT’s to S130’s.

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I spotted even more Z-cars lurking in adjacent lots, but this one really stood out with a freshly restored vibe and pretty white/red color combo:

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Even more JDM gems hiding in the lots like this FD RX-7, first and third generation Toyota Celica’s:

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Ultra-clean 2JZ powered Toyota SC300 and modded Genesis:

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We were blown away at the variety of awesome machinery at Cars & Coffee. From exotics to muscle cars and literally everything in between we had a wonderful time perusing each aisle. Here were a few highlights for me, and don’t forget to cruise our extensive picture gallery below!

A Fiat 850 and 1200 Cabriolet, the latter shares some styling elements with a  Datsun Roadster!

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Craziest engine swap: A 1936 Ford Pickup with an insane supercharged 5.4 modular drivetrain:

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The Aston Martin club was the featured marque with stunning examples:

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We love muscle cars! Simply mouth-watering cars from GM, Ford and Mopar:

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Movie cars like this “Bandit” Trans AM and two(!) Deloreans:

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Oh, and lots of modern/supercars too, if you’re into that kind of stuff 🙂

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Big thanks to CNC Blackhawk and Dave P for arranging parking for our Datsuns.  We want to thank all of our friends who made the trip too, the ride back home was a blast!

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Ken, we wish you luck and great Roadster weather in Seattle, “DATSTER” will be missed!

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