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HowtoDougie

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    90 Nissan 240sx, 84 Datsun 720 4x4

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  1. Imagine this: You, cruising down the highway, wind in your hair and feeling like you're Brad Pitt (Brad Pitt in Fight Club not the Brad Pitt in the Curious Case of Benjamin Button). You're going 62 MPH because you think you remember that someone sometime told you that cops won't pull you over if you're only going 7 MPH over the speed limit. Purple Haze comes on the radio and you turn it up a little louder to sing along. From the left corner of your eye, you see a red 1969 convertible Camaro filled with 4 college cheerleader girls pull up beside you. They scream over the wind that's flowing through their long blond hair and ask "What kind of truck is that?" You pull your sunglasses slightly down by the bridge of your nose like a boss and say, it's a Nissan/Datsun. They all yell out, "super sexy" and throw you a hotel room key through the open window and then speed off down the road. You open up the glove compartment and throw the keys in with the 4 other hotel keys that you had thrown at you this week. While you have the glove compartment open, you find a quarter that the previous owner of the truck had forgotten to remove when you bought it. Awesome, you're feeling like you're high on life because you just realized that you only paid $1499.75 for your new set of wheels. That's what life will be like everyday if you buy this truck. Ok, now that we got the boring stuff out of the way, let you tell you about all the crazy-pimp awesomeness of this truck. It is a 1984 Nissan 720 King Cab, 5 speed manual transmission, 4x4 truck. It looks mad awesome because I painted it flat black using cans of rustoleum paint (I spare no expense to help attract ladies for you). If you ask 100 ladies what their favorite color is for a 1984 Nissan 720 truck is, 23 of them will say flat black. That's 23%! (Almost a quarter of the women asked) It was just inspected in April so you don't have to worry about passing inspection right after you buy this. BONUS, I just put brand new tires on this beast. What's that you say? "You must be stupid to sell a truck when you just bought brand new tires for it!" and I'll say "Yes" If I had another vehicle that would take that size of tire, I would take them off right now... stop trying to give me seller's remorse. They are all terrain tires and there might be 100 miles on them(They still have that blue paint on the white lettering). The 4 wheel drive (High and Lo) works great and the wheels have manual locking hubs. Ladies will tell you that manual locking hubs work better than automatic ones. I wouldn't trust them... seriously who asked women about truck parts anyway? Since it's a 4x4 it sits a little higher off the ground than a 2wd truck. Ladies love how aggressive this extra height gives it. Maybe you'll want to turn this truck into a rock crawler and try to pick up a grunge-type girl. I'm not judging you... different strokes for different folks I say. The odometer reads 143227 but the engine was replaced with a used engine about 5,000 miles ago. The used engine only had 60,000 on it or so. I also put crazy sweet seat covers on this... some people like the feel of hot sweaty vinyl on their butts, but not me... and not real men. This truck also has a 32/36 Weber carburetor installed. It sounds good and easily improves the 0-60 time from 25 seconds to an easy 22 seconds. So any normal person may be asking at this point, "Why the hell would you want to sell something so clearly perfect and fergalicious?" Well, here's what's is making me part with this definition of "pimp". I purchased it a few months ago looking for something different. Turns out, I didn't like "something different" so it's time for something new, something I know I will enjoy. So, here's where you come in. For the measly price of a cup of coffee every day for the next 2 years, you could be the proud owner of this chick magnet truck Let me see... anything else you should know before the upcoming pictures... the radio has an aux in so you can hook your ipod up to it... that's pretty cool right? Oh, it does burn some oil so you'll have to keep an eye on that... it's a truck from 1984, quit your complaining. Also the right mirror is cracked but it still works. Heck, I'll even wash the bird poop off of it if you want me to (but only if you buy it) We'll have to negotiate a little if you want the hula girl on the dash to stay. Oh, I just remembered... the speedometer is 7 MPH off. So if it says that you're going 62, you're actually going 55. See? This will keep you from speeding because some idiot friend of yours told you that you won't get pulled over for going 7 MPH over the limit. I just recently did a tune up on the truck. Carb tuned, new spark plugs, new distributor cap and rotor and an oil change. Truck runs fantastic for it's age. It also has a shackle lift in the rear. I haven't bothered going through and raising the torsion bars in the front. Also, the truck was given a rust-proofing in 1987 so it's 99% rust free other than a little surface rust on the bed, there is NO rust on the frame rails. SOLD. Low ballers will be ignored and probably made fun of.
  2. HowtoDougie

    new 2 me 84 4x4

    I'm SO jealous of your black interior! Welcome, dude, awesome truck, too.
  3. Welcome, man! Super clean truck.
  4. It it okay if I turn this thread into my "build" thread? :) Anyway, today I changed the battery. I love having friends that work at Advanced Auto. I got a used Optima yellow top for $35. I have the same battery in my 240, and I absolutely love them. I hate dealing with shitty batteries. My buddy ran a few new grounds as well, and he'll be going back into it and running new wires to the terminals instead of those shitty old ones. He just has to figure out a way to get around the factory fusable links. I also changed the oil and ran some engine flush through it. The oil was only changed 1500 miles ago and it was black. :/ Then I found a friend that came with the truck. I named him Ralph. I really didn't like Ralph, so I sprayed him with some stuff so he left. While messing around with the head unit, I found out why my truck's underside is so damn clean. This made me really happy. :D And here's how you lift a truck when you don't have a jack that will go high enough for trucks, haha. I also own a vinyl plotter (if you ever need stickers, let me know) so I made some stickers for the truck.
  5. I changed the oil, changed the battery, changed the head unit, and did the shackle lift in the rear. I need to crank the torsion bars up a little in the front before I take pictures, it's got some really bad rake haha.
  6. Awesome truck, man. That spot looks like fun too!
  7. Damn, really!? I keep seeing that grill everywhere and I've always wanted it. I guess I'll have to track it down eventually. Thanks for the welcome, guys! Much different from our shitty 240 forums where everyone is an asshole, haha.
  8. Hey guys, I figured I'd introduce myself since I'm new here. My name is Doug, I live in Lancaster, PA and I just bought my first truck. I've owned and daily driven a 1990 Nissan 240sx for 4 years now. I've even taken it to the track a few times. But the 240 is horrible in the winter time, and I'm getting tired of daily driving it because it's very stressful, haha. Anyway, I found a 1984 Nissan 720 4x4 for sale locally for $1200. I couldn't say no. The truck is pretty clean for what it is. Minimal rust, 60,xxx on the Z24 (143k on the chassis) Here's my 240sx. Anyway, I'm sure you only care about the truck, haha. Here she is, The Ugly Truckling. The previous owner painted it black and left the roof white; I'm not really sure why. I plan on re-painting it satin black with gloss black accents. I already bought a shackle lift for it, so after that I want to get some bigger tires and just freshen up the truck a little bit to make it a comfortable daily driver. Come winter time I plan on taking the KA out of the 240 and putting it into the 720 so I can get rid of the Z24, since, well, let's be honest, they're pretty beat, haha.
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