Vrooooooom.

Back on the highway, we were!

Finally, to Jacksonville Beach.

I thought for a minute... 

We had already had several sweet treats!

But boy was I wrong...

These last few post... 

are describing a lot of the 

"dirty little secrets" of my husband.

But one part of him that I really truly love...

is his interest for things out of the norm.

When I met Michael.. 

he had a Nissan 300 ZX.

It was his pride & joy.

Pristine condition.

Beautiful RED.

Always clean & waxed.

A police magnet to say the least.

It wasn't just any car...

It held a lot of memories,

Gave my husband the "Sports Car Ego"

& well is now the burden of several big dents.

Dents large enough to total it!

You get the point.. we no longer have 

the "little red Z..."

Have no doubt though in the next couple of years... 

if either one of us have anything to do with it...

we will have a new "little red Z".

If we don't get fired from our jobs that is!

What does this have to do with our trip you ask?

Well on our way to Jacksonville we passed a Nissan dealership.

In NC it is very rare to find more than 1 or 2 Z's on the lot.

This one... had probably 20!

We had to do a U-turn, 

cancel our hotel because we were nearing the check-in deadline 

(but not sure if it was clean enough to stay & needed to approve first) 

drive through the car lot & look.

What did we see?? 

Plenty of Z's...

There was one extra special Gem on the lot though...

A Nissan GT-R!

Two men... got giddy like little school girls.

For shits & giggles...

they had to convince the guy to let them sit in it.

Done.

That wasn't enough fulfillment though..

Next, they convince the guy that they need to drive it.

3 cars were moved out of the showroom

to make room for this beauty to leave the lot.

Did I mention the car cost well over a 100 grand???

& was handmade by 5 employees

or that there are only a couple produced a year?

It does.  All of the above totally accurate statements.

Do we have insurance high enough to cover the cost 

of this car if it gets wrecked on our test drive?

We don't.

O well.  Who could resist.

So we take it for a spin.

 

 

0-100 on an exit ramp!

The car rocked...

Heads turned when we passed other cars on the highway.

We were the first people to take the zero mileage car out of the lot.

We got 8 miles to the gallon.

Ha.

Totally worth...

watching my dad with a stain on his shirt

(from being in the same clothes.. in the car for 2 days)

pretend he had a bank account

big enough to buy it 

for his wife for their anniversary... 

Just to drive it!

The boys talked about there experience for days...

& on to Jacksonville we go!

To be Continued..

Next post about our time in Jax...