Be the envy of your JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) buddies or drift crowd with the Pick of the Day, a right-hand-drive 1991 Nissan 300ZX.
Showing just over 37,000 miles and in what looks like clean original condition, the sport coupe was apparently imported directly from an owner in Japan, where it was “well-maintained,” according to the dealer in Lynden, Washington, advertising the Nissan on ClassicCars.com.
The dealer has several other JDM cars advertised on the ClassicCars.com website, all interesting low-mileage sport models. This is the one that caught my eye since I’ve always been a fan of this generation of Nissan Z car, and how cool would it be to have a right-hooker to show off?
The Nissan is black with a gray interior and looks great in the photos with the ad.
The description of the Nissan is pretty sparse, saying only that the car runs and drives great, and is fully equipped with power seats, audio, T-tops and such. The engine is a 3.0-liter naturally aspirated V6 (VG30DE for all you mostly young JDM fanatics) fed through a 5-speed manual transmission.
For those who’ve never maneuvered a right-hand-drive car on U.S. roads, it’s definitely an ability you have to acquire. While all the pedals are the same – clutch on the left and throttle on the right of the brake – you do have to contend with shifting gears with your left hand. But it’s easy once you get used to it.
Some things are not as easy. Using the inside rear-view mirror, which is up and to your left, is especially strange and surprisingly difficult to master. Also hard are passing maneuvers on two-lane roads since you have to pull out almost all the way into the oncoming lane to see around the car ahead.
Drive-through windows and toll booths are hard as well, and never get easier.
But for anyone willing to undertake the adventure, this 300ZX would be a great way to inflate your JDM credentials, and at an asking price of just $9,950, which seems like a striking bargain for the right person. This Nissan also is on the short list of future collector cars.
To view this listing on ClassicCars.com, see Pick of the Day.
This car is not the twin turbo. Also being from Japan you really have no record of original mileage. One good thing with right hand driver you have no blind spots. just a standard is too difficult to learn its wonky. I do believe if you can get a left hand dash and new wiring harnesses and some minor mods you could change it but its costly in the labor costs.
Article says it is naturally aspirated engine. Does not say twin turbo.
Whoever is buying the right hand drive is doing it for that reason, no one would but this and switch it to left!
Hi I am interested in this 1991 Nissan 300ZX you has for sale. Please email me the price and more details thank you.
Read the story for information you request. Contact the seller by clicking on the Pick of the Day red link at the end of the article, which will take you to the seller’s ad.
Hiya Bob- I always liked the sort of reptilian styling of this gen Zcar. And turbo or not, though heavy were great fun to drive.
However- and isn’t this always the case?- the best description of these I ever read was that they were “fiendishly complex”… take a good look at the engine compartment pic. I have a 40th anniversary Holden Monaro/Pontiac GTO, and comparing my alloy V8 LS1, with a/c, power everything, Trac control, ABS, hydraulic clutch (Save The Sticks!), well, for an incrementally larger car, my engine compartment looks like something from the ’70s. OBD/OBD2 or not, I’d hate to have to diagnose any issues with the Z.
Sweet car for the right owner, tho’.
Hi, I’m interested in the Nissan z, please let what is the price some more details.
Okay any import fan/enthusiast will tell who really cares if it’s the twin turbo…it’s a nostalgic car with low mileage and beyond the h.p. any American car of it’s time had…I’m sorry half of these comments make me sick being the actual technician I am and have become…sorry so many people want to be Brian O’Connor with no effort or actual intelligence