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Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Junkyard Find: 1985 Nissan Maxima



14 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

A front-wheel-drive Nissan Maxima in the junkyard must have something special to induce me to shoot photographs. We’ve seen this gig-rig ’86 wagon with pleading note to the tow-truck driver and this super-weird ’86 sedan with brake fluid used as coolant and washer fluid in this series so far, and now I’ve found this extremely rare 5-speed-equipped ’85 in a Northern California yard.
08 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

The body is pretty dinged up but there’s no rust. Just over 100,000 miles on the clock.

10 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

By the middle 1980s, almost no luxury-sedan buyers had any use for a manual transmission. You’ll see the occasional BMW or Audi from this era with a 5-speed, but a three-pedal mid-80s Maxima is about as easy to find as a two-headed snake.

01 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

Interestingly, this car has a solid-state version of the phonograph-based Voice Annunciator System used in earlier Datsuns. The harness connector is identical to the one on the early-80s units, but the box is full of digital circuitry.

03 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

Naturally, I had to buy it.

I haven’t hooked it up to power and a speaker yet, so I don’t know if the voice is the same as the one on the tiny phonograph in the 1982 version.
Ah, the cult of the Talking Nissan.

06 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

In addition to being the Turbo Decade, the 1980s was the Cassette Equalizer Decade as well.

In Japan, schmaltz was applied heavily to the ’85 Bluebird ads.14 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 19 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 01 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 03 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 05 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 06 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 08 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 10 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 11 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 12 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 15 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 16 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 17 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin 18 - 1985 Nissan Maxima Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

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