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" An old Datsun ad once beseeched potential sporting GT drivers to Join A Minority Group. &amp;quot;The Datsun 240-Z is not exactly what you&amp;#039;d call\u00A0a common sight,&amp;quot; it read. Well, imagine pulling up to the starting line of your nearest run-what-ya-brung Ten Cent Beer And Chili Night at Bob&amp;#039;s Dragway with this beautifully-built, Orange Crush\u00A0Datsun 240Z, all ate up with motor and tire and everything in between,\u00A0amped up and ready to go\u00A0with a small-block grumbling underneath and a shot of NOS at your fingertips, ready to put that wheelie bar to good use and your alimony behind you?  &amp;quot;No money spared,&amp;quot; says the listing, and that much is clear:\u00A0&amp;quot;Over $80K invested!&amp;quot; What does $80,000 get you in a Datsun dragster? It gets you a small-block Chevrolet 355 that&amp;#039;s further assisted by a 125-shot of\u00A0nitrous. It gets you a Turbo 350 transmission built by\u00A0Steve Casner (the\u00A0Steve Casner. He&amp;#039;s one of those guys who if you know, you know). Nine-inch Ford rear, a\u00A031 spline spool rear-end, and all manners of bars: ladder and wheelie, and possibly a stiff drink to come out of it.\u00A0A chassis by &amp;quot;one of the best 6-second Door Slammer chassis builders in the country.&amp;quot; And so on.\u00A0 Peruse the build\u00A0sheet at will, if you must. Because in the end, all of that synergy comes together to produce a car, which\u2014when raring up on its Hoosier QuickTime tires\u2014can hit 0-60 in a claimed 1.3 seconds.\u00A0 We&amp;#039;d believe it.\u00A0The seller claims that 1.) this car is capable of nine-second quarter-miles, and as a result, 2.)\u00A0this car was once featured in Hot Rod Magazine\u2014whose recurring theme, after all, is &amp;quot;Dare To Be Different&amp;quot;\u2014but not this proudly\u00A0rat-rod, junkyard-turboed Datsun.\u00A0 All this speed and cartoonish style and potential wheelie-popping mayhem can be had for a mere $28,888, or about the price of, say, any number of lesser\u00A0midsize\u00A0sedans that can&amp;#039;t do wheelies or set off car alarms from three school zones away. Why not live Mr. K&amp;#039;s Freudian\u00A0dream of V8s and grudge matches? Why not suffer that midlife or quarterlife crisis\u00A0inside the automotive version of Blue Oyster Cult?\u00A0 To quote another Datsun ad, it&amp;#039;s time to Shift Into Awesome.\u00A0  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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