The beauty of driving a classic car is how visceral and raw it can be, stripped of the modern refinements that make today’s cars so placid. Ditto racing cars. But a classic racing car… now we’re talking.
Take this Datsun 240Z, for example. Its owner Taz Harvey had it sitting around back for years while he raced his classic Datsun 510. (He was a Nissan dealer at the time.)
But when he had taken that car to its limits, he stripped it down to the bodyshell and rebuilt it from the ground up as a racer, entering it in the Carrera Panamericana classic car rally in Mexico.
To hear Taz talk describe it, driving his rebuilt 240Z is less about how fast it can go than how fast it seems from behind the wheel. “
When you get into the Z,” he says, “it has a little bit more of a rocket feeling to it.” Sounds like a blast to us, and you can watch and hear his story in this latest video from Petrolicious.