Wall Street Journalのインスタグラム(wsj) - 6月20日 07時44分

At work as an executive vice president at Sony Pictures, John Naveira's parking spot sits at the bottom of a 94-foot tall rainbow sculpture in Culver City, Calif. The rainbow is a nod to "The Wizard of Oz," which was filmed on what is now the @sonypictures lot in the late 1930s. When the Burbank, Calif., resident parks his 1972 #Datsun 240Z there, everyone can see it—and the symbolism is obvious. It's like a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, he says. ⠀
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It was 2012 when Mr. Naveira's son came home and told him he saw a 240Z for sale three blocks away. The Z has always been an important car for him, but he had never owned one. When he was in junior high, a neighbor parked her red Z next to his mother's Chevy Impala, and Mr. Naveira fell in love with the car. His wife once owned a 280Z, and both of her brothers have owned 240Zs. "You have to buy that car," his brother-in-law told him. So he did—for $2,200.
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Datsun, formerly a division of @Nissan in the U.S., created the 240Z in 1969. It was an affordable and reliable mass-produced Japanese sports car to compete against more expensive British sports cars—a poor man's Jaguar, as Mr. Naveira calls it, with a 2.4-liter engine. The car was so successful that Nissan still builds Zs, but to him, nothing rivals the first generation, model years 1970 to 1973. He often hears Z fans say that 1972 is the best year.⠀
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Mr. Naveira's 240Z had a bigger 280ZX engine and a five-speed manual transmission installed at a local restoration shop that Nissan has commissioned to restore old Zs. He keeps the passenger window open when driving, because he always gets a reaction from someone.
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