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　Datsun/Nissan Z-Car History
The Z-Car is a series of sports car produced by Nissan Motor Corporation from 1970 through 1998.
The car was called the Fairlady Z back in the late 60's while it was under prototype construction. Nissan had a four cylinder sports car at the time; commonly called the Fairlady or Roadster 1600 in the Americas. This Roadster had varying sizes of engines through its production in the USA. With each change came a change to the name. The Roadster 1800 and 2000 reflected an engine size of 1800cc and 2000cc. (cubic centimeters)

The Fairlady Z was just called a Z in the USA. The abbriviated engine size was used as a prefix to the name. Thus the 2400cc Fairlady Z bore the name 240Z.
This was the first Z-Car...

　October 13th, 1998, Mr. Yutaka Katayama, better known as "Mr. K" was inducted into the Automobile Hall of Fame museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Mr. K was one of six very distinguished inductees to be honored for their contributions in our automobile past. All inductees could be considered as pieces of the puzzle that put us where we are today with regards to the automobile.He is called nowadays 'Father of Datsun Fairlady Z'