Among classic car restorers, the "good ol' days" of the 1950s provide some of the best classic cars to work on. One such vehicle is the 1957 Ford Thunderbird. 
Many great classic cars and muscle cars begin as an option for an entirely different car before proving their worth in the auto industry. For some, it can take years to show just how popular the option could be as its own model, but for others, it becomes obvious very quickly that it should be much more than an option. The Buick Gran Sport is just one example of a car which originally began as an option, and in this case, the classic car 
During the 1970’s, this car easily set the record for the best-selling sports car of all time with more than 540,000 built. In 2004, it was even ranked as #2 on the list for best sports cars of the 1970’s. What is it you ask? It is the Datsun 240Z. The Datsun 240Z had many obstacles standing in its way to getting designed and built. In the late 1950’s, Yutaka Katayama was hired by the Nissan company to help market their cars. He was the first person to convince Nissan that adding a racing program would be a good way to build the Nissan name, and he was right. This didn’t sit well with his bosses because he went around them to their bosses to pitch the idea, so they decided to give him a job in North America – Datsun Marketing Manager For North America. You see, the market for Japanese cars in America was slim because most people didn’t want to buy Japanese-made cars after World War II, so even though the name Datsun was put on all Nissan cars sold in North America, it was figured that Mr. Katayama would stay out of the lime-light with this challenging position. His bosses couldn’t have been more wrong.
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