1985 Nissan 300ZX - Z31 To Remember. Brian Koler’s ’85 Nissan 300ZX Keeps the Spirit of True Drift Car Builds Alive. Damon Young Writer Jan 30, 2013. See All 2 Photos.

The Z31 I used to own had a cable-driven speedometer and a dang miniature phonograph to play the “door is open” warnings. Seems like translating those signals would be a little more involved ...

The Z car continued to become more GT-like with the 280ZX that followed, and by the time the Z31-generation Nissan 300ZX debuted in 1984, the car was nothing like its sports car forebear.

For better or for worse, the Z31 generation 300ZX (built from 1983 to 1989) has all the typical 1980s sports car design treats, such as the pointy styling with an abundance of straight-lines and ...

The Z31 was just, objectively, not that great of a car in its time. But from a car collector’s perspective in 2022, time has (finally) been good to the Z31.

And as a fellow Z31 owner myself, special might as well be my middle name. I’d spring for the most precious of the current Zs, the top Proto Spec.