Okay, this will be my first Blogspot post, so i'm going to ramble a little about Nissan in the 1980's.
When probably half my audience we're probably still a twinkle in their daddy's eye, Nissan had just rebranded from Datsun and underwent a period of puberty. When I say puberty I mean, they were experimenting with certain ideas and playing with technologies ... trying to find out what the public thought was sexy. Sometimes they got it right, sometimes they got it wrong, and sometimes they come out with something that polarizes the public.
One such car was my real 'first' car. The Nissan N13 EXA. Designed to be a sports homologation of the Nissan Pulsar at the time, and first shown as a concept called the NX21.
The NX21 
My EXA just before I sold it.The NX21 concept had twin ceramic turbocharges was mid-mounted, and drove the rear wheels. What that eventually led to in production was a fairly unexciting non-turbo 1.8L front wheel drive.
But what it did have was versatility. It was and could be all of the above :
* roofless (through targa roofs)
* bootless like a convertible (the rear hatch was removable)
* a wagon (through the wagon attachment you see above)
* a soft back (through the replacement of the boot with a durable leather cloth)
No other car before or since had this sort of flexibility. The options were countless. Some days i'd feel like driving a wagon, i'd put the wagon attachment on. Somedays I wanted a convertible, I took both targa roof and the boot off. And so on.
If you ever get a chance to own one of these cars, i'd highly recommend it.
