RE: Shed Of The Week: Nissan Sunny
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I inherited one of these from my mum as my first car! A 10 year old '88 bright red 3 door carb fed 1.4LS, 4-speed. No power steering, central locking or electric windows and a blanking plate where the digital clock was on posher models. True poverty spec! I "tastefully" upgraded the stereo system to something that was quite ridiculous, but seemed like a good idea at the time.
I have fond memories of it of course as it took me and my mates all over the place and to lots of good times. At the time it seemed reasonably sprightly, I suppose because it was so light and my lack of experience. The vague wallowy understeery handling taught me how to drive properly though. You could even get some lift off oversteer out of it if you did it right! The exhaust note had a nice little rasp to it at around 3k rpm and of course I absolutely thrashed the tits off it at every opportunity. Drag racing my mate in his 1.6 Orion....fun, albeit slow times....haha.
Sadly it died after spinning a big end bearing and clattering to a halt beside the road.
I have fond memories of it of course as it took me and my mates all over the place and to lots of good times. At the time it seemed reasonably sprightly, I suppose because it was so light and my lack of experience. The vague wallowy understeery handling taught me how to drive properly though. You could even get some lift off oversteer out of it if you did it right! The exhaust note had a nice little rasp to it at around 3k rpm and of course I absolutely thrashed the tits off it at every opportunity. Drag racing my mate in his 1.6 Orion....fun, albeit slow times....haha.
Sadly it died after spinning a big end bearing and clattering to a halt beside the road.
Poor effort shed! This is much more interesting-
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PositronicRay said:
PZR said:
Slow said:
PZR said:
Most Japanese people find the word offensive, which is surely what counts?
Most fat people take offence to being told they are fat. Yet we still use the word.chow pan toon said:
HorneyMX5 said:
If I had the space I'd be all over this. It's brilliant.
What's the deal these days with using "Jap"? Some people seem to think it's poor form as per this article but there's two huge UK car shows who use this term int he title. Japfest and JapDay.
Jap has been offensive in the US for quite a while but over here it has never really been used as a pejorative, the abbreviated version of Pakistani is the converse example. What's the deal these days with using "Jap"? Some people seem to think it's poor form as per this article but there's two huge UK car shows who use this term int he title. Japfest and JapDay.
jap became common usage in american , australian and new zealand troops fighting the japs in the pacific in wwii .
also americans were yanks , new zealanders were kiwis ...and australians were ozzis ..
brit were poms
germans ..jerrys
everyone is such a poof nowdays ....if you disagree your a homo
Slow said:
PositronicRay said:
PZR said:
Slow said:
PZR said:
Most Japanese people find the word offensive, which is surely what counts?
Most fat people take offence to being told they are fat. Yet we still use the word.PZR said:
Slow said:
PositronicRay said:
PZR said:
Slow said:
PZR said:
Most Japanese people find the word offensive, which is surely what counts?
Most fat people take offence to being told they are fat. Yet we still use the word.
t you'd be jizzing in your pants.
Ha this article reminds me, I bought a brand new one of these, well a 1.4L 12 valve G reg on the 1st august 1989 as I have worked for Nissan for nearly 30 years and got it for about £5200 instead of £7000 I seem to recall.
I kept it only 6 weeks and did about 1200 miles in it then traded it in on a D reg Escort RS Turbo mark 2, (which cost about £8500 at the time) It wasn't a bad car at the time and I did make some money on it to as a p/ex but soon realised it was an older mans car (was only 22 then !!).
Sure if its maintained correctly it will go on for years yet..!!
I kept it only 6 weeks and did about 1200 miles in it then traded it in on a D reg Escort RS Turbo mark 2, (which cost about £8500 at the time) It wasn't a bad car at the time and I did make some money on it to as a p/ex but soon realised it was an older mans car (was only 22 then !!).
Sure if its maintained correctly it will go on for years yet..!!
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