First time in a Roadster was when I was in high school and my friend gave me
a lift to a tennis match in 1969 which I photographed for the HS newspaper.
I do believe it was a 67.5 2000 and definitley yellow. His dad owned a
Datsun dealership and he got the used cars to drive and keep for several
months.
Great feeling to be in it and on the way home he let me drive it :)
In 1971 I bought a used 67 1600 from his dad at a super low price.
Unfortunately it was destroyed by a truck which rearended my car a little
more than a year later.
Mike
PS - My friend won his match and our HS won the meet overall :)
----- Original Message -----
From: <stebharvey@ameritech.net>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 9:33 AM
Subject: Remember your first time?
> Hi group,
>
> I was thinking about the first time I saw a roadster. It was 1968 and I
> was a high school student driving a piece of crap car. The Datsun dealer
> (Zimdar's) was in an old gas station and they had 4 roadster's in the
> lot. All were red with black interior. I pulled in and asked the guy if
> I could sit in a car. He walks inside and comes out with the keys and
> says, "take her for a spin but be back in an hour because I will be
> closing". I drove the car for a little under an hour and returned it to
> the dealer feeling like I'd never felt before. I was hooked from that
> point on. Couldn't afford the high price (grin) for a new car but the
> next year I found a 1600 that had been hit in the rear end and bought it
> cheap. That was my daily driver until I joined the Navy in 1970.
>
> Steve Harvey
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