They don’t build them like this anymore.
At the back of the car lot was death row. It was there where the real “one foot in the grave” cars were lined up, where desperate men with cold hard eyes gave the deadbeats serious looks, weighing the options while nodding gravely to themselves. Whether I wanted to be or not, I was just such a man. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1980s, 200SX, classic japanese, digital dash, junker, Nissan, Soul, Spirit, Thomas Kreutzer, TTAC Future Writers, Turbo
Tagged as 1980s, 200SX, classic japanese, digital dash, junker, Nissan, Soul, Spirit, Thomas Kreutzer, TTAC Future Writers, Turbo
It’s hard to get more stereotypically 80s than this car. Weird Japanese styling, headache-inducing upholstery patterns, and— most important— TURBO! I was 20 years old when this car was new, and the sight of this Crusher-bound example gave me terrible 
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