![]() Such is not the case with this Nissan, which achieves a very high reading on the Hooptie-O-Meter. While there have been notable exceptions, most big-final-mile cars I find look amazingly clean and well-preserved, no doubt because owners must be fastidious about maintenance in order to get any vehicle - no matter how well-built - past 200k territory. While I find plenty of discarded Toyotas and Hondas showing better than 300,000 miles on their odometers, a junkyard Nissan showing that kind of final mileage is more unusual (though I documented a nicely preserved '87 Maxima that came close to the 350,000-mile mark a couple of years back, and plenty of 1980s Nissans show up in car graveyards with well over 200,000 miles). Today's Junkyard Gem is one of those now-rare S12s, a car that lived a long and eventful life, enduring a painful downward spiral into utter decrepitude before ending its days in a self-service yard near Pikes Peak. This continued with subsequent generations of the car the 1980-1983 S110 version sold reasonably well on our shores and its 1984-1988 S12 successor (now sporting Nissan badges) competed straight-up against the Toyota AE86 here and spent quite a while as a common sight on American roads. Equipped with a five-speed transmission and AM/FM stereo as standard equipment (both stunningly pricey options on most cars at the time), the original 200SX was a good value in an affordable rear-wheel-drive sport coupe. ![]() ![]() Nissan began selling Americanized versions of the Silvia here in the 1977 model year, badged as the 200SX. ![]()
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