…Makes Jack a dull boy. But that doesn’t mean you should get all Jack Torrance and go on a rampage – following Chris Forsberg’s example, you can fuse work with leisure with winning results.
The old saying goes that you should always keep your work life and home life separate. This is a vital technique to stop your brain exploding – sure, there are people out there who’ll wake up in a cold sweat at 3am to check their work emails and see if the latest quarterly projections have come through from Chicago, but these are the people that don’t have any hobbies, never see their families and have heart attacks at young ages. The balance between work-to live and live-to-work is key.
For Chris Forsberg, however, there is no average day at the office, no routine of mundanity. So merging work with leisure isn’t such a big deal; his day job involves driving about in big-power Z cars on track, so he’s built a big-power Z car to drive about in on the road. It makes sense, really.
Another key driver behind the creation of this shimmering gold 280Z is that Chris’s home State of Maryland allows more modifications to road-going cars that were built before 1980 than might otherwise be possible. Whereas a lot of States have strict emissions guidelines and punishing views on engine and chassis mods, the rules are a little more relaxed for classics. That’s not to say you can’t build a badass modern street car in the US of course, far from it – but given that this Datsun 280Z was built in 1975, Chris had pretty much free rein over what he could do. And it’s for that reason that it’s become the most awesome 280Z you’re ever likely to come across.
This story is from the October 2017 edition of Japanese Performance.
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