willimo
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- First Name
- Will
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- Mar 16, 2018
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- Location
- Austin, TX
- Vehicle(s)
- 1996 Civic, 2018 Civic Type R
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Dustyroads posted a cool thread about our car collections, and it made me get around to posting a thread about all the Honda's we've had before. I know your Type R might be your first, but for me it's the culmination of a dream since I was in high school, and the most recent in a series of five majors.
In high school I had an '89 Civic sedan. Nothing special, and it got blue emblems and an intake tube. Don't laugh - it was 1998 and I was a kid.
I college I had a '96 Civic coupe. I learned everything on this car. Over ten years I slowly made changes to it - sway bars, an intake, Ground Control coilovers on Tokico Illuminas (throwback!), rear disc conversion, etc, until it eventually benefited from an LS-VTEC swap. I had this car well out of college, and it was my daily when I started my next project. A lot of parts from it ended up on my next one. I wish I had kept this one.
I got a '96 Civic hatch because I had always wanted a hatch, and I finally had the knowledge and time and space for a dedicated project. This car has been entirely apart since I've had it - like, no two parts touching each other apart. New Midori paint (to refresh it's factory color), a B18C ITR swap, but nothing groundbreaking. Very basic little EK build but it's a fine little autocrosser/weekender, my love letter to Honda. What I figure they'd've built if they could have charged $25,000 in 1996. It's still in progress, and is my main focus even with the CTR, which is now my daily.
I had an '07 Si sedan for a hot second, I expected it to be my next long term daily before the CTR officially came to the US. Skunk2 coilovers with non adjustable shocks, and that's all I had time to put on it before I sold it on. Very nice little car, though.
Civic Type R. I'm leaving this one primarily stock, as a nice little daily driven collector car.
Sorry if this is pic heavy.
In high school I had an '89 Civic sedan. Nothing special, and it got blue emblems and an intake tube. Don't laugh - it was 1998 and I was a kid.
I college I had a '96 Civic coupe. I learned everything on this car. Over ten years I slowly made changes to it - sway bars, an intake, Ground Control coilovers on Tokico Illuminas (throwback!), rear disc conversion, etc, until it eventually benefited from an LS-VTEC swap. I had this car well out of college, and it was my daily when I started my next project. A lot of parts from it ended up on my next one. I wish I had kept this one.
I got a '96 Civic hatch because I had always wanted a hatch, and I finally had the knowledge and time and space for a dedicated project. This car has been entirely apart since I've had it - like, no two parts touching each other apart. New Midori paint (to refresh it's factory color), a B18C ITR swap, but nothing groundbreaking. Very basic little EK build but it's a fine little autocrosser/weekender, my love letter to Honda. What I figure they'd've built if they could have charged $25,000 in 1996. It's still in progress, and is my main focus even with the CTR, which is now my daily.
I had an '07 Si sedan for a hot second, I expected it to be my next long term daily before the CTR officially came to the US. Skunk2 coilovers with non adjustable shocks, and that's all I had time to put on it before I sold it on. Very nice little car, though.
Civic Type R. I'm leaving this one primarily stock, as a nice little daily driven collector car.
Sorry if this is pic heavy.