Summer is arguably the most anticipated season of the year. The sights and smells of a new summer season is delightful but for us car enthusiasts the true beginning of summer comes with the dropping of the tops. Convertible tops that is.

For those who weren’t there, there’s only really three things to remember about the early 1980’s in America: Pac-Man, cassette tapes, and the rise of the Japanese performance sports car.

This Datsun 280ZX commercial aired in 1979 to advertise the new 280ZX as the ‘best kept car secret’.

“You wouldn’t put the pedal to the metal and burn the bowtie clean off that Corvette, but you know you could.” We just love how these commercials taunt us.

Just like this commercial, when we were kids we always told ourselves “some day” we would own a bad ass 280ZX. Vroom Vroom!