New toy - Nissan Silvia Turbo S12 1985

[Jamie _Swales]

Not been around on here for a while, but just over a week ago I managed to get my hands on my new weekend toy so thought I would show it off.

It's a 1985, Nissan Silvia with 68k miles. The last owner has owned it for 20 years and only driven it 5k in the last 10 years, keeping it serviced, MOTd and running it round the block.

He has had it in his garage, but decided now was a the time to give it up and through random chat at the gym, my dad managed to bag me a bargain.

From my research, there are only 6 manual versions from this year (the phase 1 version) left on the road. They hardly ever come up for sale as there is so few of them.

The car is mechanically great and is in good overall condition, with just the odd mark and some rust to the arches.

Anyway, here are some pictures.

 

[Philip.]

Awesome car!
What engines in it? CA?

 

[Clio_fool]

Dawn that's sweet!

 

[General Dave]

Awesome car!
What engines in it? CA?

Non intercooled CA18 from memory,

Nice find @Jamie _Swales !! Any plans for it ??

 

[Poopensharten]

Puts me in mind of the Quattro! Looks very tidy that!

 

[imprezaworks]

This a turbo one?

My dad (no) had one of these when I was younger. Loved it

 

[STEVE.M]

This a turbo one?

The clues in the title.

 

[imprezaworks]

So.....

Read fail

 

[182_steve]

Not seen one of those for aaages!! Not just a turbo, any! Used to see a few around back in the day, anyway that looks a cracking example and nice and original..... very retro indeed inside but that's all good!

 

[leeds_182]

Looks great.

 

[Smiffyboy1990]

Looks ace that.

 

[c4pob]

Great find. Looks super retro (in a good way).

 

[Christopher]

Awesome! Long time no see, Jamie
Looking forward to seeing where this goes!

 

[Paul.M]

Love it! I'm quite partial to anything S body wise. A friend of mine has one with a lexus V8 in it which is awesome :smile:

 

[Silent_Scone]

That's nuts!

 

[_Tom]

That's awesome. Please keep it standard.

 

[Jamie _Swales]

Thanks everyone. Got an absolute bargain on it, the guy was planning on scraping it, he obviously didn't know what he had.

No plans for it as want to keep it totally original and sell it on as is at some point in the near future.

If I was keeping it, I'd have it sat on the 9 inch wide 15s on extremely low coilovers, but I can't bring myself to modify it.

It's a great drive and even with only 130bhp, the turbo makes it feel pretty fast.

 

[Mork of Ork]

Mmmmm, brown.

 

[K_McDermott]

old school cool, love all the silvias, plans?

 

[Bluebeard]

Why on earth would you sell that?? That's a guaranteed pension pot in 10-20 years time! If you got if for a bargain, I'd be storing it sharpish and forgetting about it. (After you've driven it for the summer obviously)

 

[182_steve]

Thanks everyone. Got an absolute bargain on it, the guy was planning on scraping it, he obviously didn't know what he had.

No plans for it as want to keep it totally original and sell it on as is at some point in the near future.

If I was keeping it, I'd have it sat on the 9 inch wide 15s on extremely low coilovers, but I can't bring myself to modify it.

It's a great drive and even with only 130bhp, the turbo makes it feel pretty fast.

As if he was going to just scrap it!!!! :fearscream: but like you said, probably doesn't know what it is now, just saw it as an old car he'd had his time with not worth much. But good stuff keeping it standard, it looks too original to chop about when you said there is so few left on the road. 130bhp was a decent figure back in 1985, would have been keeping up with the RS Turbo's and R5 GT Turbo's :grimacing:

 

[imprezaworks]

Why on earth would you sell that?? That's a guaranteed pension pot in 10-20 years time! If you got if for a bargain, I'd be storing it sharpish and forgetting about it. (After you've driven it for the summer obviously)

That

 

[Jamie _Swales]

So tonight I spent a quick half an hour cleaning the engine bay. Needs a lot more work, but already looks a lot better.

Before

After

Also took some pics of the underneath so you can see the condition.

As the sun was shining, I took her out for a drive and took a few pictures. The car is pretty dirty, but I think she still looks good.

Slowly falling in love with it, but need to be careful I don't clock up the miles too quickly.

 

[182_steve]

Defo too original to modify, all looks in great condition helped massively by being garaged of course :up:

 

[AdDaMan]

Looks mint!!

 

[Budgie]

What a find.

As above, stick that in a garage and leave it for ten years.

 

[Christopher]

Yep. Drive it for the summer then dry store it.

 

[Jamie _Swales]

I can't stop driving it. Not sure I could put it in a garage and forget about it, it drives too well and gets so much attention. Love it

 

[BIFCAIDS]

We're lacking pop-up action!!! Where the pics at?