Oh bugger me I've done it again

"MultiplaOrgasms" (themightymultipla) 01/23/2015 at 17:49 • Filed to: Philosophic Phive Minutes

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It is a 1987 Nissan Laurel 2.8D with a manual transmission and 149.000km/ 93.ooomls. It has been up on sale for what must be well over a year now. I have no idea why, but I can't stop coming back to this ad. Is it a great car? Not in the same way as an old Lancia or an Aston Martin Vantage, but in it's own, japanese kind of way. Just look at it. It is so lovably honest and unpretentious, a car that gives you a comforting reminder of what put japanese car makers on the map. It is the kind of car you know will get you where you want, no matter how far. It won't get you there on time, it certainly won't give you the thrill of an old Alfa Romeo, but it'll get you there. Always. I want to buy it and preserve it for future generations. It even almost makes sense from a first car perspective. It is not fast, handling is nice, safe and understeery, the visibility puts anything made after 1995 to shame and it'll probably do 30mpg+. But there are three things keeping me from buying it: At €3.700, it is quite expensive unless I can get my dad to support a young enthusiast for the boxy, boring and bulletproof, spare parts are going to be fun and then we have the subject of taxes as it is a Diesel from the mid-80s. I guess it doesn't help that it is on the other end of the country.

-Sigh

Life as a car enthusiast isn't easy when you are broke, have no licence and have a distinctively different taste in cars.

pip bip - choose Corrour > MultiplaOrgasms 01/23/2015 at 19:39

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would thrash into ground!

cberg > MultiplaOrgasms 01/24/2015 at 00:37

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My first car was a CA20E FWD Nissan Prarie (Stanza Wagon over here), it would've been AMAZING with that big diesel. Loved it to bits anyway, understeer is damn right.

Go for it. You'll regret nothing.