Firing up this pristine 1973 Datsun ... no electrical interlock to stop me starting the car in gear—and then I turned the key. The 2.4-liter inline-six started on the first crank, with the 240Z ...

Yet the 240Z was seen as a bit of a risk at the time. Its success can be traced back to Yutaka Katayama, who became responsible for sales of Nissan cars under the Datsun name on the West Coast in ...

The Datsun 240Z story starts with Yutaka Katayama, tasked with bringing the Datsun brand to the United States in the early 1960s. Early products, mostly small utility vehicles, sold slowly ...