Model: Nissan Pintara T automatic
Year: 1992
Mileage: 150000
Tax: No
MOT: August 2013
Location: Norfolk
Price: 275
Additional Information:
I bought this on eBay recently, purely because it was unusual and cheap. I drove it the 200 miles home from Hampshire, ran around in it for a few days, but since then it's been sat in a corner gathering dust. I could do with both the space and the cash, so here it is for sale.
The Pintara was supposed to be an exciting new all-Australian Nissan for the '90s. In fact it's essentially a JDM U12 Bluebird with different badges. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing - it certainly makes parts availability less of a headache.
This particular car is a mid-range Pintara T. It gets a 2.4-litre fuel-injected four-pot petrol engine (as found in the Terrano II / Ford Maverick) driving the front wheels through a 4-speed overdrive auto transmission ostensibly similar to that used in other '90s Nissans. It has power steering and aircon (needs a regas), but manual windows.
It actually doesn't hang about on the road. The engine puts out 129bhp, which isn't a huge amount for a 2.4 but is only 6bhp down on a standard Bluebird ZX Turbo (although the U12 is a slightly bigger car than the T12). Handling isn't too bad either as it's fairly firmly sprung, albeit with plenty of suspension travel to cope with the roads in rural Australia. The gearbox does its thing as it should, and has Power and Winter modes. The only thing I can really fault it on mechanically is it will need a new front wheel bearing in the near future as it is whining - as far as I can tell the bearing is the same as on a T12 so quite widely available.
The bodywork isn't bad, but it has suffered slightly from the usual imperfections one finds on cars with elderly previous owners (the owner before me had bought the car new in Australia and brought it back with him when he came back to the UK, and was only selling it because he'd given up driving through age). There are a couple of minor dings and a few places where the paint has been touched up in less than expert fashion. Nothing too drastic though.
It's fitted with a towbar, but this would need a new ball (screw-in type, available from my local hardware shop for a tenner) and a UK-style socket wiring in as the Australian socket is a completely different type.
The interior is in fairly good nick, and all the electrics seems to work apart from the aircon. One feature it does have which has been quite useful in the wilds of Norfolk at night is turn lights on the front corners which light the way round corners - kind of like the single foglight illumination on modern VAG stuff.
It's MoT'd until August next year, but it's not currently taxed. Here's some pictures:
Year: 1992
Mileage: 150000
Tax: No
MOT: August 2013
Location: Norfolk
Price: 275
Additional Information:
I bought this on eBay recently, purely because it was unusual and cheap. I drove it the 200 miles home from Hampshire, ran around in it for a few days, but since then it's been sat in a corner gathering dust. I could do with both the space and the cash, so here it is for sale.
The Pintara was supposed to be an exciting new all-Australian Nissan for the '90s. In fact it's essentially a JDM U12 Bluebird with different badges. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing - it certainly makes parts availability less of a headache.
This particular car is a mid-range Pintara T. It gets a 2.4-litre fuel-injected four-pot petrol engine (as found in the Terrano II / Ford Maverick) driving the front wheels through a 4-speed overdrive auto transmission ostensibly similar to that used in other '90s Nissans. It has power steering and aircon (needs a regas), but manual windows.
It actually doesn't hang about on the road. The engine puts out 129bhp, which isn't a huge amount for a 2.4 but is only 6bhp down on a standard Bluebird ZX Turbo (although the U12 is a slightly bigger car than the T12). Handling isn't too bad either as it's fairly firmly sprung, albeit with plenty of suspension travel to cope with the roads in rural Australia. The gearbox does its thing as it should, and has Power and Winter modes. The only thing I can really fault it on mechanically is it will need a new front wheel bearing in the near future as it is whining - as far as I can tell the bearing is the same as on a T12 so quite widely available.
The bodywork isn't bad, but it has suffered slightly from the usual imperfections one finds on cars with elderly previous owners (the owner before me had bought the car new in Australia and brought it back with him when he came back to the UK, and was only selling it because he'd given up driving through age). There are a couple of minor dings and a few places where the paint has been touched up in less than expert fashion. Nothing too drastic though.
It's fitted with a towbar, but this would need a new ball (screw-in type, available from my local hardware shop for a tenner) and a UK-style socket wiring in as the Australian socket is a completely different type.
The interior is in fairly good nick, and all the electrics seems to work apart from the aircon. One feature it does have which has been quite useful in the wilds of Norfolk at night is turn lights on the front corners which light the way round corners - kind of like the single foglight illumination on modern VAG stuff.
It's MoT'd until August next year, but it's not currently taxed. Here's some pictures:
