The Jim Fitzgerald 280zx

[Alvin]

The Jim Fitzgerald 280zx is safe and sound at the shop!
Today we visited Adam Corolla's garage and trailered the Fitzy Z from Burbank with the help of Les From Classic Datsun Motorsports.






Adam has an extensive collection of historic racingNissans/Datsuns:



The #44 roadster!

[redroadster]

I seem to remember Fitzgerald was on the race team of the owner of the Datsun dealer I worked . Frank Carney #23 S130zx and other cars 72 240z
240sx
Frank and his brother made a bundle when they started a pizza restaurant for late night college buds with the munchies mostly
They called it Pizza Hut

[jamesw]

Nice! I got to see that car when I stopped by Les's shop a few years ago on one of my San Diego visits.

Best of luck to all.

Cheers
James

[MicVelo]

Feelin' old... the Sharp cars - and the IMSA GTU 280Z with the yellow/red/brown livery in particular - were current when I worked for Datsun (not Nissan, D-A-T-S-U-N!) and racing my D-Prod SRL! I remember all of them like it was yesterday.

And I'm not even that old, really. Hahahahaha.

Thanks for the share, Alvin!

[Alvin]

Wait till we get it back on the racetrack!

[Alvin]

1 year later...the Fitzy car is accepted to run at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca!

We have started race-prepping the ZX. Here is a dyno video, enjoy!

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More pictures:
http://www.zcarblog.com/2018/07/20/auto ... -seca.html

[2mAn]

Alvin , thanks for sharing! That video of Fitzy is hilarious... shame all the factory Datsuns couldnt beat an old Jag haha Im guessing that Jim was trying to send a message, but it still wasnt enough to take the chequered flag

[ppeters914]

Oh....my.....!!!!!!!!!