Junkyard Find: 1989 Nissan Pulsar NX

by Murilee Martin

Updated: February 19th, 2022 Published: March 17th, 2015

The Nissan Pulsar NX was a weird little two-seater sold in the US market for the 1983 through 1990 model years. Now, the coolest thing about the Pulsar NX was the Sportbak wagon-conversion option, available on the second-gen version, but I have yet to see a Sportbak in a junkyard. So far in this series, I’ve photographed this ’83, this ’87, and now today’s ’89.

This being a California car, it’s not a bit rusty. Maybe it wouldn’t pass the smog test, maybe it broke something costing more than a few hundred bucks to fix, maybe it picked up too many San Francisco parking tickets, or maybe it just plain wore out.

Over 200,000 miles.

Someone please explain: why is 1980s nostalgia big these days?

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Murilee Martin

Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.

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APaGttH on Mar 17, 2015

Here is a shooting brake Nissan Pulsar for sale http://abbotsford.craigslist.ca/cto/4915307004.html

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MRF 95 T-Bird on Mar 18, 2015

If there is 80's nostalgia then T-Roofs and Targas need to make a comeback. Especially since droptop sales are flat.

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