Some Pulsar NX Love on AOTD Today, so Here's the Story of Mine

"As Du Volant" (skuhnphoto)
07/10/2014 at 13:43 • Filed to: Pulsar NX

I'm noticing some Pulsar NX love on today's Answers of the Day. I posted a couple pics of my Pulsar and it's getting some attention, so I thought I'd make a post about my car instead of hijacking the AOTD comments.

So, here's a post about my 1987 Nissan Pulsar NX.

I first spotted this car for sale in late 2009 and was forced to drive past it over and over again. It was in immaculate condition for this part of the country.

A little money came my way in January of 2010, so I bought it. The guy wanted $3000 but after about 30 minutes of butting heads I got it for $2500. I still think I paid a little too much but I loved the car and I knew I'd never find one like it again, so I paid up. He had the Sportbak hatch for it too but wanted $500, and at that point I wasn't going to pay that much for it.

Here it is shortly after bringing it home:

This one is the SE model, with the peppy (but I wouldn't say fast) CA16DE engine and 5-speed manual.

The clearcoat on it is basically shot, and keeping it shiny requires religious waxing- but when it's cleaned up, boy does it shine.

Remember the Sportbak I mentioned? I let the guy sit on it for a couple months knowing full well he'd have no use for it without the car. I went back with a printout from car-part.com showing prices of "sport" hatchbacks for the Pulsar and offered him $200 for it, and he reluctantly accepted.

Here she is all shined up with the Sportbak attached.

It came with a set of 14" Enkei wheels, which look to be of similar vintage to the car. I remember seeing similar ones for sale in the ads in the back of Car & Driver in the early 90's. I found a surprise the first time I had them off- they're directional. Look at the photos above. On both sides of the car the spokes are pointing in the same direction. Neat! And unlike most aftermarket alloys, these have actually been taken care of and are damn near immaculate. The car itself isn't perfect, there's a small rusted area on the driver's rocker panel and a crease on the passenger door, but considering I'm square in the Rust Belt it's in amazing shape for its age.

I'm feeling the need... the need for tweed. Yes, the seats and door panels are done up in actual tweed. The 80's! On a junkyard run to grab a few interior bits that were missing I grabbed the steering wheel out of a '94 240SX convertible. It's leather wrapped and feels a lot nicer to hang onto vs. the worn out urethane of the stock wheel.

The turn signal lenses are the same as those out of a D21 Hardbody so I grabbed some aftermarket clear lenses.

Never did get around to detailing the engine bay.

In the summer of 2010 the Pulsar started having hard start issues. The spark plugs I'd put in just a few months prior were fouled already. I replaced them and she started running fine again, but the hard starts came back within a few hundred miles. I started investigating further and found out the crankcase had a ton of gasoline in it.

Knowing it wasn't going to be so simple but hoping for the best anyway, I checked the fuel injectors hoping to find a leaky one. Of course they were fine, so I prepared myself for the worst and performed a compression test.

She's dead, Jim. No compression in the #2 cylinder.

A week after this grim discovery, I closed on my first house. I limped her across town and parked her in the garage, hoping to replace the engine soon.

It hasn't happened yet. That was 4 years ago in September.

First the house took priority. When you buy a house, plan on spending a certain amount of money for repairs/furnishings, then quadruple it. I learned that the hard way. Car repair money? Gone.

Then came tough times at work. My income dropped significantly. We were barely able to pay our bills for a while, then learned how to budget and just squeaked by. But a weekend car was a luxury we just couldn't afford, so the car fund stayed empty.

Now I'm in a better job position. I got myself a pretty decent promotion with potential to earn quite a bit more money. But first we've got to dig ourselves out of the hole of debt and deferred home repairs that we fell into during the lean times.

Maybe next summer?

Until then, she still sits, and I daydream about whether I'll throw another CA16DE in just to get her on the road easily and quickly, or save a little longer and work a little harder to buy myself a CA18DET and make the car REALLY fun.

I miss driving you, Pulsar.

DISCUSSION (67)

lonestranger > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 13:58

"The clearcoat on it is basically shot, and keeping it shiny requires religious waxing- but when it's cleaned up, boy does it shine."

Does your rag turn red when you wax it? If so, it's because it was never clearcoated at all. As a detailer from the mid-90s until mid-00s, I've seen a lot of '80s & '90s red cars that have single stage paint. For whatever reason, most of the solid red cars of that era (and even into the '00s) used single-stage paint, whereas the same car in a different colour used basecoat/clearcoat.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 14:02

Kinja'd!!!

Nissan NX has no time for your shenanigans.

As Du Volant > lonestranger
07/10/2014 at 14:07

I don't recall the rag turning red, but the last few times I waxed it before it died I was using a red tinted wax, so I wouldn't have been able to tell.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 14:09

Don't give up hope. This car is way to cool to give up. My suggestion sell your DD make Pulsar new DD. lol

lonestranger > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 14:10

Either way, she sure does clean up nice. Here's hoping that you can get her on the road again soon.

Brian, The Life of > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 14:14

First of all:

I went back with a printout from car-part.com showing prices of "sport" hatchbacks for the Pulsar and offered him $200 for it, and he reluctantly accepted.

^You are a genius for that ^

Second, I LOVE these cars! The GM of the hotel I worked at in high school back in the 80s had one of these (that he occasionally had the sport back shell on) and I thought it was one of the coolest cars on the planet ... still do! Last, please, please, please fix this thing and keep it forever, you will not regret this. I am quite sure this is a near-future classic.

As Du Volant > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
07/10/2014 at 14:15

Unfortunately I don't even own a DD. I drive company cars as DD's as my work-related driving adds up to about 25k per year.

My girlfriend and I own a Suzuki SX4 and while we're both on the title it's technically her car as my transportation needs are already taken care of.

OzzyOnIce > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 14:24

say just rebuild the engine yourself, but that engine bay is a disaster. I wouldn't want to pull that engine!

As Du Volant > OzzyOnIce
07/10/2014 at 14:31

I'm simultaneously looking forward to it and dreading it. I may just drop the entire subframe as a unit.

Patrick George > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:34

My wife and I love this car. There's one not far from us , and we always pine after it when we see it. Yours was in fantastic shape.

G/O Sucks > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:35

SO awesome. I met the designer years ago and nearly gave him a hug.

The sportback with the t-tops are so unique, yet something we'll simply never see again. Big props to Nissan for even attempting to make this a thing.

feather-throttle-not-hair > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:40

Yeah, until this morning i thought the coupes/shooting brakes were different models.

Dolemite > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:46

I had a black Pulsar back in HS. It was my 2nd car, and a step up from my '88 sentra. My dad got it at a bank auction for about $2500 (I had to pay him back). To this day (20+ years later), I still have dreams that I still own the Pulsar, and I wake up and look in the driveway and it's not there (the only other car I have this dream about is my '88 supercharged MR2.).

SirRaoulDuke > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:46

Kinja'd!!!

Awesomeness.

Rusty_Jaguar > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:47

I had a black 1987 in the 90s. Loved it, but I worked on it a lot. Reverse gear went out, CV joints, steering box, and the clear coat burned off the hood. It had the 4 valve engine, but it was torqueless till about 5k rpm. I'd get another one, but they aren't around and they're FWD.

9brghtn4 > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:48

Story of my life, dude. Stupid money! Two failed attemps of restoring Fiat 131s here. The economy sure has kept cool cars from shining.

As Du Volant > Rusty_Jaguar
07/10/2014 at 16:49

That's about right, at 5250 rpm the throttle body secondary opens and the fuel injection map switches to pulse mode.

monkeymouth > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:50

Always loved the Sportbak. Weird and not really practical but cool regardless.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:51

My fist car was a 1986 Pulsar NX, the previous body style, I have tried for years to find another one, they just don't seem to have survived. Which is surprising for a car that was so ubiquitous it even showed up in Snoop's Gin & Juice video.

Fragile_this_side_up > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:52

Ahh. I know this all too well. Parked over 6 years ago for an engine swap. I just had my first kid in December.. :( Time is all i need. Time is what i don't have..

Kinja'd!!!

Big Block I-4 > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:52

Hey man I commented earlier on the AOTD page, where in PA are you located? I am in Bmore but from York, in south central PA. Cool car, nice write up too. If you are close and ever would want/need help working on it let me know. I am always looking for a reason to get in the garage, especially after I picked up my Miata with a less than stellar maintenance history.

As Du Volant > Fragile_this_side_up
07/10/2014 at 16:53

If you're ever in Pittsburgh we can have a beer and lament our poor dead 80's cars.

William Byrd > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:54

Here's the story of my first car, a Pulsar NX.

I think mine was an 1988, was sort of a champagne color. No sportback roof, never really liked them. Sadly it was an automatic, but I was 16 and had no clue how to drive stick. At least not enough to get one for my first car. I found it randomly at a used car lot, paid $6000 I think in 1992. The one below isn't it, but looks exactly the same. I loved it, t-tops were off most of the time and I think I even put a loud exhaust on it. I was a pioneer I suppose. haha

Kinja'd!!!

I had it less than a month when I went around a 90 degree turn way too fast without any oppo. Lost the rear on some loose stuff and it spun 180 and hit the ditch on the other side of the street. It was terrifying, I can still see it vividly in my mind. I just froze, forgetting anything about oversteer or opposite lock I may or may not have learned via driver's ed. I remember seeing the windshield crack as the wheels dug into the 2-3 ft deep ditch. I flipped at least once and the car ended up perfectly balanced on the driver's side. I just hung there by the seat belt wondering WTF to do.

I almost popped a t-top out and climbed out that way, but was concerned it would roll over on me. So I climbed up through the car like I was on a rock wall, swung the door open and jumped off. I pulled my LL Bean book bag out of the drivers window that it was hanging out.

It was right after school, and not terribly far away so more people showed up. One gave me a ride to call someone. When I got back, the police were already there and accused me initially of covering for the actual driver. I was pretty upset already and told him I wished it wasn't my car and I wasn't driving, but I was. I sat in the MD state police car passenger seat with tears in my eyes for awhile while he wrote it up. I think he ended up NOT giving me a ticket, which was good because my insurance took a pretty solid hit as it was. My parents were relieved at first and then rightfully mad. My Dad was a cop and even did an accident scene write-up for sport, measuring the black marks and everything, even estimating my speed eerily close to what really occurred.

A few months later it was back on the road. No frame damage, good as new. Well, actually it wasn't. Neither was I though, I was terrified to drive those first few miles after picking it up. The car was never quite the same and I traded it for a new 1993 Mustang LX hatch. You always remember your first though and I loved it while I had it.

mcseanerson > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:54

My first car was a pulsar. I had the 1.6 with tbi. I didn't know which specific engine it had. I had the 3 speed automatic but it was still tons of fun. I snapped a con rod because of an oil leak that I didn't know how to fix back then and my mechanic at the time refused to repair it. I miss it.

p00pman > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:54

nice, always wanted one to play with, you don't see many cleanly modded ones! have you ever seen one with a vinyl top? I have yet to see one of those.

The Devil Drives a Mustang (Rotary Pending) > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 16:56

!!!

I have seen a few of these on the road. I never realized that the wagon thingie was removable. My mind is now blown.

mcseanerson > William Byrd
07/10/2014 at 16:58

My first car was an automatic Pulsar too. Funny enough I cross shopped a mustang hatch when I was looking at it but the guy with the mustang wanted way too much. I paid $600 for my Pulsar.

William Byrd > mcseanerson
07/10/2014 at 16:59

haha what year was that (both the car and the year you bought it)?

mcseanerson > William Byrd
07/10/2014 at 17:00

'89 model I think. I bought it in '04. I will see if I have a pic when I get home.

Arrivederci > lonestranger
07/10/2014 at 17:00

Very true! I had a 93 Mustang that was red and it got dull in a hurry but shined up very nicely after a good wax. The cloths I used to polish it up were nearly as red as the car by the time I was finished.

Karmakazee > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 17:04

i love these cars, especially with the veterinarian ambulance cap on the back.

Fragile_this_side_up > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 17:06

Hahaa. Nice. I'm down in VA. only about 4 hrs away.

jamesalehman > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 17:07

Start working at home with Google! It's by-far the best job I've had. Last Wednesday I got a brand new BMW since getting a check for $6474 this - 4 weeks past. I began this 8-months ago and immediately was bringing home at least $77 per hour. I work through this link, go to tech tab for work detail

www.jobs700.com

MannyBones > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 17:10

I learned to drive in a 1984 Pulsar NX convertible. Manual. California-emissions model with the 1.6l engine and a whopping 68 horsepower.

Yes, I said convertible. Someone in California had done a fairly crappy job making it a soft top. I mean, they went through a lot of work, but it leaked, was hard to put up and down (you practically had to take the day off to put the top down, compared to the almost one-hand operation of a Miata), and broke easily. Plus, to make the space in the car for it to go when it was down, they had to take room out of the back seats (me and my brother were kids when my parents bought it circa '87-'88). And I can't imagine the structural compromises they had to make—and yes we had at least one accident in it, as kids in the back.

Still, drove the car through high school and parts of college. Eventually had to put it down when the transmission gave out and we "couldn't find" a new one (read: wanted my parents to get something made at least in the 90's so we barely looked).

Basically, it looked like this if you literally sawed the top off from the windshield back:

Kinja'd!!!

Actually, the other car I learned to drive in was one of these, also manual:

Kinja'd!!!

PogosRevenge > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 17:12

My Dad bought one brand new when they came out. Exactly like this one. I remember it being a heavy car and a little under powered at low end but overall a great little car. I remember doing several road trips with my dad. We'd take turns driving. It rode very nice. My dad drove the wheels off of it and traded it in for a Ford Probe. I don't know what he was thinking. I still have fond memories of my Dad in that car. Thank you for sharing.

Mike Fresh, Toomp and Hop > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 17:16

Kinja'd!!!

Period correct aftermarket Enkei's ...lol a buddy of mine had one...even though it had the "chick car" reputation

As Du Volant > p00pman
07/10/2014 at 17:36

I never even knew the vinyl top existed today and now I need to have one.

As Du Volant > Big Block I-4
07/10/2014 at 17:38

I'm in Pittsburgh. Always could use a hand wrenching when the time comes as I'm a bit rusty- it's been about 8 years since I last pulled an engine.

Adam > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 17:54

I saw a Sportback for sale a number of years back, always liked the taillights on these. Haven't seen one in years.

seroquel > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 18:02

So, new piston rings, liners, honing etc not an option in US then. Is it so expensive there??

As Du Volant > seroquel
07/10/2014 at 18:15

Quite honestly? I've never torn apart an engine before and am afraid of screwing it up.

Also, these engines can be purchased used very cheap.

torquesteerisfun > MannyBones
07/10/2014 at 18:38

My friend had one of these in high school. We somehow fit 8 teenagers in that car. Best car ever.

erikmc10 > William Byrd
07/10/2014 at 19:10

My first newer car was an 1988 Nissan Pulsar. Bought in in 1990 for about $10-12k, I think. White just like the picture above, and automatic for the same reason as the person above said — at 16, I had no idea how to drive a stick. Fun car, though.

andkorn > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 19:28

Why bother with a CA16DE or a CA18DET? Those are seriously ancient technology. For the same trouble you can get an SR20DE from a Sentra SE-R or an Infinity G20. The SR20DE is much easier to obtain and puts down better power. Also thanks to the 240sx crew there is still a ton of aftermarket support for the SR20DE and SR20DET if you are after serious horsepower! They have long given up on the CA18DET.

The CA is cool in it's own right (it shares something with the early Skyline RB-series), but the SR20 is more practical in the long run due to being able to find parts.

Kudos to you for keeping that Pulsar. very unique car.

jkm7680 > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 19:37

Ugh, I wish most of these things weren't completely fucked. It's a nice looking car, and I love the sport back thing. Except what was the use of it?

emjayay > Arrivederci
07/10/2014 at 19:40

That was typical for waxing any car before clearcoats. Of course with the clearcoat I don't bother. By the way, know what clearcoats do after 20 years? (I know, who would....) Well, they peel off.

emjayay > seroquel
07/10/2014 at 19:44

Does anyone do these things these days, or just buy some used or rebuilt in a factory engine?

emjayay > MannyBones
07/10/2014 at 19:46

Drove one of those once. Yikes.

emjayay > Adam
07/10/2014 at 19:48

The taillights were its coolest bit, definitely.

With-a-G is back to not having anything written after his username > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 20:42

I rode carpool to high school for a while in the teensy tiny backseat of my friend's mom's Pulsar NX. It was a manual, and my family only ever had automatics, so I'd watch the mysterious tach and shifter as we'd row up and down through the gears with the revvy little engine doing its best to carry 5 people up and down the hills. I loved that thing, even without the sportback.

As Du Volant > With-a-G is back to not having anything written after his username
07/10/2014 at 21:05

Sometimes I almost forget this thing even has a backseat. I folded it down the day I got it and it hasn't been back up since.

salguod > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 21:09

I had a 1988 SE that I bought in 1992.. Loved how it looked and how it drove, but wow was it trouble. I had it for 3 years and it went through 2 sets of tires, 2 exhausts, a coil, the spark control computer, exhaust cam and the crank angle sensor. When I traded it, it needed another set of tires, struts, a steering rack and the speedo gear inside the transmission.

Still, I kinda miss it.

MannyBones > torquesteerisfun
07/10/2014 at 21:29

Only 8 teenagers? It was a 7-passenger van! You weren't trying! Oh, you mean the Pulsar, not the van?

MannyBones > emjayay
07/10/2014 at 21:30

Nissan or Van? 'Cause the Van actually had more pull (RWD 140hp vs FWD 68hp).

burpbeepburp > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 23:13

My wife had an '85 for years and we replaced everything on it (almost the engine, that was a story). It just ate headlights. I lusted after the new body style and the Sportbak until my Sisterinlaw got one, it was like sitting on the floor in a seat with no support.

These taught me all I ever wanted to know about Nissan's abominable engineers. This is my favorite:

Kinja'd!!!

The battery is right behind the left pop up headlight and the and the fumes from it gradually eat the wiring harness for the head light and motor. $112 if I remember correctly.

Also on the 1st gens you learn the minimum number of screws you have to leave in to keep the head light surround bezel on. You just keep leaving more and more off every time.

ojlkjsdf > As Du Volant
07/10/2014 at 23:25

My first car was a '90 Pulsar. I got it in '99 for $2,500, and I loved it. It's how I learned to drive stick, and was definitely better than my brother's '93 Festiva that he got the year before. It wasn't exactly the most popular car at a West Texas high school, but it was fun to drive. Not the most reliable though...I had it for 2 years, and in that time, I had to replace numerous things, though nothing too costly.

Also, that doesn't count the things I didn't feel like paying to fix as a broke teenager, stuff like the turn signals that stopped working, headlights that only worked on high beams, and broken AC in Texas summer (thank god for t-tops). Given the shape it was in when I stepped up to a '99 Escort ZX-2 in '01, I was happy when they even offered $500 to take it off my hands. I would love to drive one again one more time though...

Sonikbloo > Arrivederci
07/11/2014 at 03:14

I have a factory red '93 Mustang LX 5.0 now. The original paint still looks good, but yep...when you wax it, the rag turns red with dead paint.

thebigbossyboss > As Du Volant
07/11/2014 at 07:31

Kinja'd!!!

POP UP LIGHTS ARE THE COOLEST LIGHTS!

Arrivederci > emjayay
07/11/2014 at 08:22

That they do - my dad has a '95 Impala that's in need of a paintjob right now for that very reason.

Big Block I-4 > As Du Volant
07/11/2014 at 09:13

I have never pulled an engine, but as I have been finding out with the Miata, it just takes some time and patience. Maybe a little help from a manual or forum, but you will get it right in the end.

As Du Volant > Big Block I-4
07/11/2014 at 09:20

That's how I'm planning on approaching it. Since it's not going to be a daily driver I won't be under any time crunch, so if it takes me a long time so be it. I'd rather not rush myself in the name of doing it right. In the end it's all nuts and bolts and with enough patience it'll come apart.

Christy R. Hinton > As Du Volant
07/11/2014 at 09:43

http://www.jobs700.com

atk09 > As Du Volant
07/11/2014 at 09:52

CA? Forget that, swap in an SR from an old G20 or B14 200SX and really enjoy those 140 ponies. If you're going to swap it, might as well go full Million Dollar Pulsar.

Kinja'd!!!

Elemental83 > As Du Volant
07/11/2014 at 12:39

Before I met my wife, a Pulsar was my first love.

Kinja'd!!!

It was a 1989 with the GA16i 1.6 Engine, STD, and Sky Blue. I bought with cash from odd jobs from a junkyard parking lot when I was 13 (1996). I spent two years fixing every thing I could on the car, learning what I didn't know from internet articles, chilton and haynes books, and my local garage. From 15-16 I taught myself to drive standard by grinding through a subdivision behind my house. When I turned 16, I had the coolest car in the world and drove it to school everyday with the tops and hatch off (even in snow and rain).

I have so many stories about this car that my friends refer to them as Pulsar Stories. To sum up a few: I learned aerosol paint remover melts plastic (those crossed tailights were awesome), that changing shocks and springs is almost impossible without a spring compressor, to double check my grounds before powering up new wiring (which I think eventually led to my career in IT). I once fixed a burnt out headlight relay in the middle of nowhere by wedging in 2 pennies and a dime. On the way to Atlanta once, the clip to keep it in 5th broke and I had to bungee cord it to the console to keep it in place.

The apex of it's life was also it's death. I got my hands on the elusive CA18DET, used, and took it to a hole in the wall shop to have it rebuilt and installed. I pulled the GA16i and took it to a custom paint shop. they took it to metal inside and out and sprayed the whole thing Jaguar Sapphire Blue. When finished, they delivered it to the mechanic to install the CA18DET. What was said to be a week long project turned into 4 weeks, then 2 months, then at the end of 3 months I threatened to hire a lawyer. He promised to have it to me by the weekend.

When I pulled up it was parked in front of his now abandoned shop, with the keys in the ignition. every car was gone but mine and a prelude next to it, all the signs were down, and the tools were gone along with the mechanic. When I turned the key, it cranked but barely. I limped it to a more reputable shop (the one I asked questions at in the beginning). The gave me the news that there had been damage to one of the cylinders and it had been half ass sleeved. The oil that was in was dirty and used. They literally had two shop tickets front and back with issues with the install. The quote to get it up and running? $4500. This is after spending over $2k on the paint, and $1k to the first mechanic. To repair it would mean going broke, so I parked it in my driveway to wait for a sunny day. All attempts to find the other mechanic fell apart.

One day in the midst of a nasty breakup, I sold it to a guy for $600 and a set of rims. I had originally purchased it for $600 barely running and half alive, and here I was selling it for about the same.

I've since moved to Texas, got a wife, got two girls, and financial responsibility (wha?). I've been trying to find one to buy with the intent of fixing it up (now that I know much more about cars) and teaching my two girls how to work on cars and take pride in what you drive. There are none on CL, Autotempest, or on any of the usual sites. So if anyone knows of a pulsar in or around San Antonio, let me know.

...One day.

torquesteerisfun > MannyBones
07/11/2014 at 12:43

Yep, the nx. 2 in the front passenger seat, 5 in the back + driver. It was.....cozy. Same color too, that wine-ish redpurplemaroon.

cberg > As Du Volant
01/31/2015 at 18:30

I had an '86 Stanza Wagon (Prairie) with the CA20DE twinspark 2L, That thing had crazy torque for what it was, sometimes got wheelspin in 2nd. Really tough gearbox too.

Sam > As Du Volant
02/13/2016 at 17:12

Love these cars. Just finally got mine running after almost a year sitting! Mine is red as well, but your paint looks much better. That sportbak has definitely been painted at some point- they only came in grey. Liking the red hatch. The one I have had the sportbak when I bought it. Never had the regular hatch.