Yelm FFA Grad Restores 50-Year-Old Sports Car to its Former Glory

By Paul Dunn / pdunn@yelmonline.com

Posted 12/8/20

A “sunburnt orange” 1970 Datsun 240Z — one of the first of its kind ever to be manufactured — dozes under the sun’s slanting rays on a sparkling fall day last week at the home of former …

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YHS class of 1974 giving back to community with car show

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