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1989 Nissan 240 SX

$15,995 $16,995 63,135 miles

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Frequently Asked Questions about Classic Nissan

Nissan traces its founding to December 26, 1933, when Jidosha Seizo Co., Ltd. was established in Yokohama, Japan. Industrialist Yoshisuke Aikawa created it with investment from two companies he had also established, Nihon Sangyo and Tobata Casting. The firm was renamed Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. in 1934, and the company is headquartered in Yokohama today.

Nissan is a shortened form of Nihon Sangyo, the holding company that Yoshisuke Aikawa headed from 1928. Nissan's own history explains the word as the Ni of Nihon joined to the San of Sangyo. The holding company therefore existed before the automaker did. Jidosha Seizo, the automaker Aikawa established in 1933, took the name Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. the following year.

Datsun was the brand name Nissan used on its cars in the United States and most other export markets, and it is older than the Nissan company itself. It goes back to the DAT car of 1914, named from the initials of three backers of Tokyo's Kwaishinsha works: Den, Aoyama and Takeuchi. A small car of the early 1930s was called Datson, and the spelling became Datsun because son sounds like a Japanese word for loss.

Nissan confirmed in July 1981 that the Datsun name would be phased out in the United States, where it had been used since 1958. The 1982 Stanza was the first model to carry the Nissan name under the change. Other models carried both names during a gradual change that ran across the 1982-1984 model years. Nissan said a single worldwide name would unify its international image.

Nissan began exporting passenger cars to the United States in 1958, selling them under the Datsun name. Its American sales company, Nissan Motor Corporation in U.S.A., was established in September 1960 in Gardena, California. US production started on June 16, 1983, when a pickup truck came off the line at the new plant in Smyrna, Tennessee. The first Smyrna-built Sentra car followed in March 1985.

The Nissan 300ZX came out in 1983. The first generation, coded Z31, was launched in Japan in September 1983 as the Fairlady Z and was sold in the United States from the 1984 model year, with a 3.0-liter V6 in place of the inline-six of earlier Z-cars. The redesigned Z32 went on sale in Japan in July 1989 and reached the US as a 1990 model. US sales ended after the 1996 model year.

No, the Skyline began as a Prince, not a Nissan. It was launched in 1957 by Fuji Precision Machinery, the predecessor of Prince Motors, and it joined the Nissan range when Prince merged with Nissan in August 1966. The merger also brought the Gloria sedan to Nissan. The first Skyline GT-R, built under Nissan ownership, followed in February 1969.

Yes, the Nissan Patrol was sold in the United States from 1962 through 1969. It was offered through Datsun dealers but carried the Nissan name, at a time when the company's cars and pickups there were sold as Datsuns. The US version was the 60-series Patrol with a 4.0-liter inline-six, and Western film star Roy Rogers served as its spokesman. The original Patrol, the 4W60, dated from 1951.

The 37 Nissan listings on Classic Cars Arena right now are priced from $5,000 to $94,895, with a median asking price of $17,495. These are the prices sellers are asking today, not sale prices, and the figures change as cars are listed and sold.

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