I've never been a heavy sleeper. My mother is always too happy to trot out stories of my epic insomnia as a baby. She would spend whole nights crib-side, trying to unwind the ball of perpetual energy that was my infant body. One day, while my grandmother was visiting, she commented in exasperation, "I thought babies were supposed to sleep all the time!" Her mother, "They are!"
The only reliable way for her to get me to take a real nap (and give herself some much needed quiet) was to load me into the carseat of her early-80s 280-Z. And drive. We lived outside New Orleans at the time, and she regularly took me across the Mississippi border in her quest for respite. It worked like a charm. Even then, I could appreciate the muted roar of that straight six. I still have trouble forgiving her for trading it in for a Volvo DL to accommodate my baby sister. (In her defense, she tried to design a way to strap a car-seat to the cargo floor of the hatchback. Bless her heart!)
So it comes as no surprise to hear that Nissan is still building engines that future car enthusiasts can sublimely appreciate from birth:
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/jalopnik/full/~3/TJh93Jli0jc/how-to-put-your-kids-to-sleep-with-a-nissan-350z
Enjoy!
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