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21-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
A Nissan 240SX Prerunner Is The Dumbest, Best Idea I've Ever Seen
Prerunners have a pretty standard definition: Pickups (or what's left of them) with tall tires and taller suspension, meant to shoot across the desert at terrifying speeds to scout the route ahead of a race truck. What if you wanted to do a prerunner's job, but your mind was stuck in the world of Tokyo Drift? Well, you might build this Nissan 240SX prerunner, which is one of my favorite cars I've ever seen. To be clear, this is a dumb build. S-chassis cars are built to slide around corners endlessly, never driving straight, turning tires into smoke the whole time. Building an S14.5 (an S14 with an S15 front end) up to have this kind of suspension travel should be a fool's errand, but it's an errand Jake O'Donnell decided to cross off his to-do list. I'm thankful he did, because this Silvia is one of those genres of dumb that loops all the way around to being incredibly cool. Read more: You Can Buy One Of The Best Modern Sports Sedans For Less Than A Toyota Corolla Why build a prerunner out of such a small, low car? Because it's hard, and because doing so leaves you with a build that no one else out in the desert will have. There are a million Tacomas done up in this style, and one of those can be made with plenty of off-the-shelf parts — not so with an LS2-powered S-chassis. This is a very custom build, and all the time spent on it (the car's been drivable in some state for years) paid off by making something truly unique. Plus, putting out 700 horsepower doesn't hurt. Yet, somehow, this isn't the first off-road 240SX we've seen. A Japanese garage called Top Rankaz put one together a decade ago, with a Rocket Bunny Boss body kit and plenty of lift to fit the dirt tires. That Silvia lacked this 240's long-travel suspension, though, and certainly lacked the desert playgrounds of the United States to hoon around in. This is my new favorite off-road vehicle, bar none. Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Barn Find Nissan 240SX Transforms Into A Beauty
Read the full story on Backfire News Since the late 1990s, a Nissan 240SX barn find was kept in a literal barn without any care or attention paid to it. That's right, we once again have a barn find car that isn't in a garage, warehouse, or field, but in a real deal even more mind blowing is the son-in-law of the guy who owns the car says it was parked there before he was born 'for absolutely no reason.' Usually, a barn find is left and forgotten because it broke big time, like the engine or transmission blew up, and the owner procrastinated fixing it. But this little Nissan was apparently running and driving when it was just parked. It doesn't help that the portion of the barn it was left in is open to the outside. Not only does the thing wear a thick coating of magical barn find dust which instantly increases the value of some cars, it is covered in leaves and twigs. In a way it's like a barn find and field find rolled into one. Thankfully, the 240SX is in good hands with WD Detailing coming to give it the full treatment. The shop does these YouTube deals where they will fully detail a car for free if they can make a video about it. So far, we've only see one person act ungrateful for such a service. Just learning the color of the Nissan is a surprise because it's so thickly coated in gunk. But once they get it in the shop and starting washing away the dirt, a beautiful coat of gray paint is revealed. What's even more amazing is the 240SX is entirely stock. We know a lot of younger kids who have watched this detail think the Nissan would be fun to install one of those annoying cat-back systems, some dumb wing, maybe a giant turbo system, then go attend a foolish street takeover event where they can destroy the tires (well, new ones, because the original ones have serious dry rot). We think this thing should be kept original and put in a museum so we can all remember when Nissan used to make cheap, fun cars. Image via WD Detailing/YouTube
