To start off my little build project, I'm gonna give a little bit of back story.
I've always been a Nissan fan, ever since I first got into cars. My brother was the main reason. I'd wake up for school, and my brother would still be wrenching on his 240SX from the night before. It always inspired me that my brother would work so hard for something, even if the result was not what most people would deem as successful.The dedication is what drew me in. Anyways,a few years down the road, my brother sold me that 240SX for $300 bucks (Back in those days, that was pricey for a 240 lol) Not long after, I blew the car up due to lack of inexperience with wrenches and lack of the world wide web.
We're now gonna skip ahead a few years to when I had my next 240SX. This one was a Silver Green Metallic (seafoam) coupe that I also acquired for $300 from my brother. It had working HUD, uncracked dash and mint interior, and not only that, it had matching
GREEN interior. Some of you will say, "oh, that doesn't exist" but I can assure you, it did. So rare in fact, that you probably can't find an image on Google of green interior. But old school guys will tell you the truth of it. Anyways, this car is what skyrocketed my interest in cars, and it ran amazingly...for awhile. I learned most of my basic wrenching and diagnostics on that car, but I never got it running again. Again, lack of hands-on experience hindered. I eventually sold the car where it was then sold again, taken up north, stripped down and put in the crusher :glarestraight:If I knew then what I knew now, it would have taken just a few tools and a timing light to fix that car. In my time owning that car, is when I learned what an S12 was and my infatuation with nerdy 80's hatchback cars came along.
Okay, now its a few years ago and I own a 1985 Toyota AE86 GT-S hatchback. (Pictured)
When I first got it:
End result of all the years of experience catching up.
Well, I had moved to a completely new city, and I had trouble finding a job. So to mak ends meet, I had to sell the AE86
I ended up selling my AE86 for $6,300 dollars. I ended up getting $500 more dollars than my asking price on Craigslist because I told the guy I was thinking about not selling it anymore and he wanted it badly. It wasn't until after I sold my AE86 that I heard about Initial D and then I realized why people were willing to pay money for the cars.
After selling my AE86, I actually went out two days later and bought a pristine 1988 Mazda RX-7 SE. This thing looked like it had been sitting in an old lady's garage since she bought it (it pretty much had been). Got the car for $2,200 and I loved every bit of that car. A week later, I had new sway bars, and an exhaust on it, and I was just bombing around town in it.
On the way home one day, a few houses down from my place, I glanced over and just happen to notice a car sitting behind someone's house. I couldn't see much of it, but I could tell it was 80's by it's tail lights and it was a blue hatchback. I stopped, and decided to knock on the homeowners door and ask him about it. He said it had been sitting back there for roughly 4 years because the transmission went out and he couldn't find replacement parts. After a little while of talking to him, he took me around back and showed me the car. It was the first time I had ever seen a S12 in person. Even under the years of leaves, pine needles, pine cones, dirt and yard trash, the car still looked amazing to me and I could see instant potential in the rear-wheel drive hatchback. So I asked him if he would sell it, and he didn't seem like he wanted to. But after awhile of nudging and then him remembering me in my AE86, he knew it was going into good hands. So, he said he wasn't looking for much for it, since he thought I was crazy for wanting a car that he couldn't find parts for (he had never heard of you savages over here on CS12, or even Facebook). I gave him $50 bucks (that's all I had in cash on me) and towed it down the road to my house, and this is where my story of the Blue Bomber Project begins.
side note- I did actually sell the S12 to a guy for $600 bucks, after losing my job, but soon after got it back after some trading.
The day I first bought the car:
The day I got it back the second time:
The only real issue it had after the transmission got rebuilt while I didn't own it for that short period:
Picked up some SE/MK2 tail lights from a local friend, not even sure if I'm going to put them on, but its nice to have the option:
Picked up some new goodies for the S13 Coilover Conversion. That new part excitement:
Just picked these up today. Seem to be a damn good replica of Volk Racing Mesh wheels:
I'll hopefully be installing the S13 stuff this weekend. Gonna be rocking the stock S13 struts and springs for now until I can get the coilovers. Gotta pick up a few small parts and fluids before I start. I'll post more of that up as it happens.
Topic: [FL] Blue Bomber- 1986 Nissan 200SX S12 Hatch (Read 5967 times)