- Tue May 03, 2016 3:05 pm
#359046
I was looking through some photos and thought this could be a cool thread idea for those of use who have owned several Honda/Acura cars over the years.
Post up your old Hondas and the stories that go with them if you want.
Teal_dx if this is in the wrong place please move it.
I'll go first.
My First car.
1995 Civic DX with an Automatic
The first stack of parts to start working on her. Bought all this back in 04/05ish I think.
This car was hit and totalled by an 83 year old woman. I ended up buying the car back from insurance and swapping everything into my second car.
Second Car.
1995 Civic EX
I bought this car and did everything to it. B20 swap, Type R transmission... tons.
I have a million pics but I'll just put the one. This car was stolen in Orlando, FL during my first year of College over at UCF.
Third Car
1992 Civic LX, manual, bone stock
I was over having dinner with some friends and park up in my friends front yard. A drunk driver lost control and t-boned and totalled it.. WHILE IT WAS PARKED. Due to the circumstances I finally came out ahead $ wise leading to building my next car.
Fourth Car
1993 Civic EX, H22a swap, nitrous, JDM interior, Wilwood brakes, and tons more.
Between moving, divorce, and a ton of other things with life getting in the way this ended up being parted out. I bought it back a few years ago with plans to rebuild her again... and it just never happened. I ended up buying my last hatchback and scrapping the sedan shell.
While I had the 4th car I picked up several toys. At the time I was doing great financially and had a lot of fun cars to choose from.
I bought a caged, LS swapped EG hatch
Ended up trading it for a CRX
About 6 months into owning the CRX I had put the Wilwoods and wheels from my 4th Civic on it and had taken out the B16 that was in it and fully freshened it up with all OEM Honda rings, bearing, and gaskets. The original owner stole the car using the key and it was found stripped. JUST MY LUCK... police suspected the original owner but no arrest was ever made.
Sorry its a tiny cellphone picture... but I also bought a 2008 Honda Fit Sport as a fun little daily for my now ex-wife.
We ended up trading this in for a 2008 Honda Civic SI Sedan when she got bored of the automatic Honda Fit.... I don't seem to have any pictures of that car handy.
At this point in time I bought my house and decided to cut back a bit. The CRX had just been stolen along with the brakes and wheels that were suppose to be on my sedan. Insurance and I weren't seeing eye to eye on the appraised value payout for the theft of the CRX. The appraisal of the car wasn't properly documented on their side so I ended up fighting with them for over a year to get my check for the CRX. In the mean time I had bought a house, towed my sedan and parked it in the new garage, and I couldn't carpool everyday in the 08 SI so I needed a car.
Thats when I bought a 1995 Honda Civic EX Coupe that a customer had traded in at work. I picked it up for a shocking price of $500 plus whatever I had to pay at the DMV. I had a lot going on a never took any pictures of this car. Within a few months of buying it the D16z6 seized up and died. Tore it apart to find a bent rod. I needed a daily so the H22 from my parked sedan came out and ended up in the coupe. I took her out to the races one weekend and after showing some kids the K killer in action I had a ton of interest in people wanting to buy a car I had next to no money invested in. A friend offered me $4500 and I took it.
Thats how I ended up buying my 2004 RSX Type-S
I absolutely loved the interior of this car and how it looked. But man I hated how it felt in turns. Something about the design of the RSX steering rack I could just never get used to it. I talked with race teams and perfmance shops all over the country and bought one off parts to correct suspension geometry and even though the car was a blast with my K24a2 swap and enough grip for whatever I wanted to do I just didn't like the feel of it. So I sold her.
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Before selling the RSX I picked up this one owner 1989 CRX HF for $1000 from the original owner (who bought it from my work in 1989!). I freshened up the paint with a buffer and replaced some of the missing blue interior pieces. A small tune up with all OEM Honda parts and I enjoyed the car for a few months getting just under 50mpg on my commute to work. I took the CRX with me to a local classic car show where a local car collector promptly offered me a ridiculous sum of money for so I parted ways with this beauty.
I had been helping a friend build a Civic CX hatchback into his "stance" dream car. The car had been in my garage for almost 2 years already and was just finally driving. After my friend took the car out the first time he realized it was too much for him and decided to part ways with it. I didn't hesitate at all making him an offer since I had built the entire car and knew what was left and how much was invested. That is how I ended up with "Pedro"... yes, the car had a male name... The spanish kid we bought the shell from was named Pedro and the car was so rigged the jokes just stuck and the car carried on the name.
In all this time my dream daily driver was a TSX with a 6 speed manual...
I had talked about it with one of my service adviser friends at work and not even a week later one of his customers came in with a 2006 black on black 6mt TSX to have an inspection before he listed it for sale. Knowing I was looking for one the service writer came and told me the situation and I worked out a deal with the owner!
I hope you enjoyed the very shortest possible version of my stories and my list of cars. I really want to dig up some pics of my 08 SI and my old teal Coupe... Gonna have to dig through my old hard drives.
I look forward to seeing what cars everyone used to have!
Post up your old Hondas and the stories that go with them if you want.
Teal_dx if this is in the wrong place please move it.
I'll go first.
My First car.
1995 Civic DX with an Automatic
The first stack of parts to start working on her. Bought all this back in 04/05ish I think.
This car was hit and totalled by an 83 year old woman. I ended up buying the car back from insurance and swapping everything into my second car.
Second Car.
1995 Civic EX
I bought this car and did everything to it. B20 swap, Type R transmission... tons.
I have a million pics but I'll just put the one. This car was stolen in Orlando, FL during my first year of College over at UCF.
Third Car
1992 Civic LX, manual, bone stock
I was over having dinner with some friends and park up in my friends front yard. A drunk driver lost control and t-boned and totalled it.. WHILE IT WAS PARKED. Due to the circumstances I finally came out ahead $ wise leading to building my next car.
Fourth Car
1993 Civic EX, H22a swap, nitrous, JDM interior, Wilwood brakes, and tons more.
Between moving, divorce, and a ton of other things with life getting in the way this ended up being parted out. I bought it back a few years ago with plans to rebuild her again... and it just never happened. I ended up buying my last hatchback and scrapping the sedan shell.
While I had the 4th car I picked up several toys. At the time I was doing great financially and had a lot of fun cars to choose from.
I bought a caged, LS swapped EG hatch
Ended up trading it for a CRX
About 6 months into owning the CRX I had put the Wilwoods and wheels from my 4th Civic on it and had taken out the B16 that was in it and fully freshened it up with all OEM Honda rings, bearing, and gaskets. The original owner stole the car using the key and it was found stripped. JUST MY LUCK... police suspected the original owner but no arrest was ever made.
Sorry its a tiny cellphone picture... but I also bought a 2008 Honda Fit Sport as a fun little daily for my now ex-wife.
We ended up trading this in for a 2008 Honda Civic SI Sedan when she got bored of the automatic Honda Fit.... I don't seem to have any pictures of that car handy.
At this point in time I bought my house and decided to cut back a bit. The CRX had just been stolen along with the brakes and wheels that were suppose to be on my sedan. Insurance and I weren't seeing eye to eye on the appraised value payout for the theft of the CRX. The appraisal of the car wasn't properly documented on their side so I ended up fighting with them for over a year to get my check for the CRX. In the mean time I had bought a house, towed my sedan and parked it in the new garage, and I couldn't carpool everyday in the 08 SI so I needed a car.
Thats when I bought a 1995 Honda Civic EX Coupe that a customer had traded in at work. I picked it up for a shocking price of $500 plus whatever I had to pay at the DMV. I had a lot going on a never took any pictures of this car. Within a few months of buying it the D16z6 seized up and died. Tore it apart to find a bent rod. I needed a daily so the H22 from my parked sedan came out and ended up in the coupe. I took her out to the races one weekend and after showing some kids the K killer in action I had a ton of interest in people wanting to buy a car I had next to no money invested in. A friend offered me $4500 and I took it.
Thats how I ended up buying my 2004 RSX Type-S
I absolutely loved the interior of this car and how it looked. But man I hated how it felt in turns. Something about the design of the RSX steering rack I could just never get used to it. I talked with race teams and perfmance shops all over the country and bought one off parts to correct suspension geometry and even though the car was a blast with my K24a2 swap and enough grip for whatever I wanted to do I just didn't like the feel of it. So I sold her.
[Before selling the RSX I picked up this one owner 1989 CRX HF for $1000 from the original owner (who bought it from my work in 1989!). I freshened up the paint with a buffer and replaced some of the missing blue interior pieces. A small tune up with all OEM Honda parts and I enjoyed the car for a few months getting just under 50mpg on my commute to work. I took the CRX with me to a local classic car show where a local car collector promptly offered me a ridiculous sum of money for so I parted ways with this beauty.
I had been helping a friend build a Civic CX hatchback into his "stance" dream car. The car had been in my garage for almost 2 years already and was just finally driving. After my friend took the car out the first time he realized it was too much for him and decided to part ways with it. I didn't hesitate at all making him an offer since I had built the entire car and knew what was left and how much was invested. That is how I ended up with "Pedro"... yes, the car had a male name... The spanish kid we bought the shell from was named Pedro and the car was so rigged the jokes just stuck and the car carried on the name.
In all this time my dream daily driver was a TSX with a 6 speed manual...
I had talked about it with one of my service adviser friends at work and not even a week later one of his customers came in with a 2006 black on black 6mt TSX to have an inspection before he listed it for sale. Knowing I was looking for one the service writer came and told me the situation and I worked out a deal with the owner!
I hope you enjoyed the very shortest possible version of my stories and my list of cars. I really want to dig up some pics of my 08 SI and my old teal Coupe... Gonna have to dig through my old hard drives.
I look forward to seeing what cars everyone used to have!
Reviving Classic, Crafting Culture.
Classic Honda apparel, prints, and digital downloads.
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Classic Honda apparel, prints, and digital downloads.
Instagram:
https://instagram.com/enjoymotorsports
Website:
https://enjoymotorsports.com
) Did the marriage/house thing in '08 and the car has been in the garage about 90% complete since. I might get to put a couple-few hundred miles/yr on it anymore. It's 25 years old next year! I'd love to keep it forever and do a full restoration (I was a rookie at the paint/body work I did in 2006) Paint it OEM teal, and do tasteful modifications from the 90's/early 2000's, to make it period correct, like it would have when the import scene was just starting to get big. On the other hand, I have considered selling because when am I ever going to get the time to do all that.
I bought a used door for $60 and spray painted it black. I kept it until 2010, when I sold it for $1200 to buy my truck. 
