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How not to drift your Nissan 240

First let me say I've been opposed to the term "drifting" since I first heard it. It's not "new" young people, it's been done for decades and decades and we called it "power sliding"!
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With that said, I don't think understeering through a corner because you're and idiot in a ricer doesn't qualify for use of either term!
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"Gigantopithecus" said:
I had the same model 240 back in high school. Fun little car.
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I had the same model also only I purchased mine when I graduated college. Still miss the car some days and it was a lot of fun.

Bought mine with 30k miles on it, drove it for about five or six years and did nothing to it except for change out the battery a couple times, replaced the brake pads once....very low maintenance car.

Paid around $10k for mine, drove it till it had almost 90k miles on it then traded it in. I got a $3k trade in allowance. Killed me to trade it but somehow I didn't see a double stroller and two car seats fitting in the car so when the boys came along I had to get something larger to drive.
 
Obviously they never heard that to go left, you have to turn right :yah
 
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"RustyRed" said:
I had the same model also only I purchased mine when I graduated college. Still miss the car some days and it was a lot of fun.

Bought mine with 30k miles on it, drove it for about five or six years and did nothing to it except for change out the battery a couple times, replaced the brake pads once....very low maintenance car.

Paid around $10k for mine, drove it till it had almost 90k miles on it then traded it in. I got a $3k trade in allowance. Killed me to trade it but somehow I didn't see a double stroller and two car seats fitting in the car so when the boys came along I had to get something larger to drive.
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I bought mine used, and ran it till +180k, then traded it in on a 97 240sx. Kept that one for 9 years, then traded it for my truck in 09. Still miss that car.
 
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"Gigantopithecus" said:
I bought mine used, and ran it till +180k, then traded it in on a 97 240sx. Kept that one for 9 years, then traded it for my truck in 09. Still miss that car.
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That's why it killed me to trade it with only ~90k on the car. I knew I could double or more the mileage and it was paid for...those cars will go forever if you maintain them.

However, my buddy who runs a restoration shop was telling me that to rebuild one of those Nissan engines is insanely expensive if you're restoring one. Last one they had in (if I understood him correctly) they found it cheaper to convert to some sort of LS motor. I've seen plenty of the old Datsun 240 cars that folks have converted to running a 350.
 
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