How many Hondas have you owned?

It's hard to find clean, unmolested CRXs at a reasonable price. I've been monitoring eBay for some time to see what shows up there, and a stock CRX with low miles for its age always fetches a premium. I've also seen a fair number of nicely-done modified ones there, but for every one like that, there are half a dozen more hideous hack jobs that are either "all show and no go" or just plain ill-conceived.

I saw an Si a while back that could've almost passed for brand-new, both under the hood and on the outside. IIRC, it sold for close to $8K.

Dave

I'm 6'-0" and was about 180 at the time. I fit in it quite comfortably. It had a deceptive amount of room, kinda like the original Mini-Cooper...

I have owned 2 so far.

1993 Accord LX (Canadian version, similar to the U.S. DX) 4-door, white. Bought it in early 2000 with 141,000km (88,000 miles) on it. Excellent car, very good gas mileage for its class. It was very reliable for the most part, although it had quite a few nagging issues over the past year (mainly exhaust and suspension). I traded it in last month with 242,000km (150,000 miles) on it. 2004 Civic LX 4-door, dark grey. Bought it last month with 39,000km (24,000 miles) on it and have already added 7,000km (4,300 miles) to it. Love the gas mileage; been averaging 36-40mpg on the highway, depending on the outside temperature.

As for most desired Honda, I'm struggling to save my pennies to buy an S2000. :-)

In late 1969, I headed a photographic expedition to Micronesia and a Honda 600 was our rental unit in Palau for six weeks. Couldn't kill it despite it had no brakes for nearly the entire time!

JT

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I look at autotrader.com and cars .com. Any other sites i should visit? bob

The CBX -- still amazing and the RC 166 ( and I think there was also a 266 6 cylinder) are technical achievements still amazing today. I keep toying with the idea of finding an older Honda 4 cylinder (air cooled) -- and not a sport bike. The 750 successor to the orginal SOHC of the early 80s interests me. Problem is to find one that is decent. I never modified my

750F but made a few changes to an earlier K series with a AAA collector system and lower BMW bars. Sounded like a baby Jag. But I still fondly think on the 305 Type 1 scrambler I had in Japan -- rode it all over the countryside because driving a car was a real pain with the traffic as it was. I remember you could make it from Fuchu AS to Tachikawa in about 30 minutes on a bike vs over an hour for a car because you could run down those narrow streets a car could not go. But I was in my twenties then and now --

1. Where has it all gone. Just great memories.

Manuals are tough to find. Should imagine you would have to special order one.

I bet it had the chain drive. That wasn't allowed in the US, or the car might have been imported here earlier. We had to wait for a real drive train.

Could well be since it was an air cooled motorcycle engine..

JT

My first was a 1982 Prelude.....forget the color but was kinda red.....off the showroom floor, manual shift.

2nd was a 1991 Red Civic SI Hatchback...also manual. 3rd 1996 Red Civic EX 2dr with auto....arthritis in knees and wrists did me in for manuals. 4th 2007 Blaze Orange FIT sport auto......I love it!

The only used car I ever bought was a 1965 Ford Mustang...2dr manual in

1972....it was green.

I loved the Prelude the most and if they had stayed with that model design would still be buying em ;-)

Donna

Every dealer around here generally has a full assortment of models with a manual tranny...

I can't think of anything that I looked at this June, on the lot, that didn't have something close to it in a manual.

Joe

Every time I go in for service at my local Honda dealer I look through the lot and may find one Civic with a manual. Last Sat -- not a one.

Counting Honda motorcycles 31

10 cars 21 motorcycles

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When I bought my Civic last month, there was a 2002 Acura RSX sitting next to it at the dealer. I had a quick peak inside it, and to my surprise it was an automatic! I don't think I have ever seen an automatic RSX or Prelude, even though I know it was available.

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I meant they make no vehicle that I want to own as an only car. Maybe a S2000 if I could afford a 2nd car.

Dave Garrett said

Hmmm ....

1977 Civic Wagon (hatchback) 1981 Accord Hatchback 1982 Accord Hatchback (to replace the '81 that I totalled) 1985 Accord Sedan 1988 Prelude 1995 Odyssey (the 4-door model) 2003 Accord EX-V6 Coupe (still own ... and my favorite of all)

Casey

Very thought provoking, but here goes.

1971 CB750K1 1974 CB7504 1976 CR125 Elsinore 1983 Accord LX Hatch 5 spd 1986 Accord LX Sedan Auto 1982 Civic Sedan 5 spd 1984 Civic Wagon 2WD 5 spd 1990 Accord EX Sedan auto 1998 Odyssey LX 2000 Prelude 5 spd

I'd like to own an NSX, but too pricey! Howard

autotrader.com is the only one I'm at all familiar with besides eBay. I've heard other people recommend craigslist, if you have one available that covers your area - you can see the areas covered in Ohio here:

Dave

The RC174 was the other inline-6 - it had a 297cc engine and raced in the 350cc class. Check out this article about a guy in the UK who built a half-dozen exact replicas of the RC174 from scratch, each of which was sold for close to $500,000!

Dave