As it were, I have been dato-less for about 6 years. That should be rectified tomorow!

Decided that the upcomming 1200 purchase was a birthday present from me to myself... Birthday is Sunday, turning 45.

I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up!

Thanks everyone for all the nice welcome comments!

Gary

I don't mean this in any negative way, but you remind me of my dad. He's 52 and races his little 1200 everywhere he goes. To this day I don't know anyone that can shift as fast as he can in his 1200. He's the one that got me started on them when he "revisited" his youth, when I was about 16 he bought one for himself...he'd always talked about them before that; when he bought one new, and restored another, it was all before I was born. It wasn't until my brother and I first took it out by ourselves 9 years ago that we understood. I had never laughed and enjoyed myself so much in a car....it was sooo small and silly, but oddly tough and quick, you couldn't NOT like it! You could do anything you want with that car, I mean you can make it do anything you want! All me and my dad and now my little brother ever do now when I go home is talk about "Datsuns!" Mom and sisters sometimes gets sick of it...tough!

Hy bud, excelent you are getting a Datsun, excelent choice, nice car, I love the sedans, I think I like them more than the coupe's, perhaps is the more inocent, or less pretentious looks that I like, both are cool, but my dream 1200(I have a ute/pick-up off road) is a sedan all lowered and fixed up, a little tasmanian devil over motored, 13 fat wheels and the like, nice!!!
About your mid-life thing, I do not think those exist, I think the seed of what we really like, our core, is molded early in life, and it never dies, it could be taken over for a while with other problems/events of life, but eventually it comes out. My Dad, he never showed any special interest in cars that I could see, a few months ago I calculated the year car models he had in front of him and might had loved to have when he was a teen and early 20 guy, and bought a book with the cars from those days, and bingo! he was so happy and surprised by my present, he says he has the book in his office desk and checks it out all the time, memories and a whole way of life long stored in his brain comes out like in a movie, that is what it is all about, we are and we have a core that will never go away, crisis? I would call it a rediscovery, re prioritization of your life's interests.
Jaime.

I guess I had a mid-life crsis too , at 40 I sold a very fast D-sports Racer and got my 1200 back!!! They are just an absolute scream of a car to drive and they run forever. Last summer right after I got the car back a rally buddy drove my 1200 at an Autocross , he has a 280 hp Subaru Rally car but thougt the 1200 was awasome. When I went to SCCA drivers school we gave rides in the cars to all the corner workers and I even left my car on grid and told the workers anyone who wanted to could take it for a spin.....several of the workers took me up on it and raved about what a great handling car it was.

Tom