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I always liked the Z31 and Z32 300ZX turbo but man are they heavy cars once you actually get behind the wheel and get to toss one around and drive it you sure feel the extra weight.
I had a 1975 Datsun B210 4 door sedan when in high school in 1984. My first car bought with my own money. That car was used and abused when I bought it but was a tank! It had a 4 speed manual transmission that I had to learn how to drive. I'll never forget my first car! Sometimes I think it would be fun to drive it one more time!
Nissan always lived in the shadow of Toyota and Honda, but their cars were always extremely reliable (at least up until the late 90s, early 2000s). Nissan doesn't have much to offer me these days, unless they can develop an SE-R model of maybe the Versa or Sentra that is actually worthy of the "SE-R" badge. My last Sentra was a '99 SE-L, with the SR20 engine (the same engine that powered the previous SE-R models), and that was the best 4 cylinder car I ever owned.
Agree!
They need to bring back the SE-R Sentra with some respectable numbers.
My first car was a 1980 Datsun 510 (brown, automatic trans) and though it was just a car to get from point A to point B, I was un-naturally fond of it. Nobody could convince me it was falling apart and needed to be replaced (it already had over 80k on it when I got it, but that was "just broken in" by their standards). I remember snapping a belt that caused all sorts of motor damage, but I pushed it a half-mile home and insisted that it still had plenty of life left in it. My dad and I compromised: we patched her up and sold her, but he bought me a 1983 Nissan Sentra that was essentially the same car (gray instead of brown). I had that car until 2000, despite hour-long commutes to work and the like, but when I got rid of that one, the a/c still worked (though the radio buttons didn't!). It had nearly 200k miles on it.
Neither were luxurious, but they were reliable and not too costly to fix. Great cars.
I knew someone in high school who had a Datsun (not sure of model), and many years later the body was worn out but the engine was still going. My husband had a Nissan pickup that got the best gas mileage and just kept running and running and running and running. The body was a mess, though. We finally sold it but have thought many times that we should have kept that truck.
I bought a 75 Datsun B210 brand new in 1975. Paid $2700 for it as that was all I could afford. Great little car but slow as hell and a rust bucket. That's a big part of the reason you never see them on the road anymore, they just rusted away.
I bought a 75 Datsun B210 brand new in 1975. Paid $2700 for it as that was all I could afford. Great little car but slow as hell and a rust bucket. That's a big part of the reason you never see them on the road anymore, they just rusted away.
You see plenty of older Datsuns in the Sunbelt, particularly California, as most of the cars in the coastal and interior away from the mountains, snow, etc were never exposed to road salt.
My first autocross car (DSP) was a 1971 Datsun 510. It was a lot of fun, particularly with the DSP mods (not so much in stock form). Somewhere around the house, we have a VHS tape (and no VHS player) of John Morton's career in a 510.
My first Nissan let alone my first import is a '94 Altima SE with an automatic.Bought in May 2015 after my brother's Ford Taurus gave up the ghost(never again will I drive a Ford) Peppy acceleration, good looks and clean interior were the main reasons I bought it and plus it was owned by a mechanic. Everything was going smooth until the tranny went while coming back from work last march. I am in the process of fixing it and will give it to my brother. I love Nissans from the 80's and 90's. They just have more soul than their current lineup.
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