| About Me
My name is Dan, as of this writing
sometime in 2001, I'm 27 years old and this
is my first Honda. Before I bought this car, I didn't know a
drum brake from a disc brake. I took my old car (a Nissan
Maxima) to Jiffy Lube
every 6 months because, well, that's what I thought you did to
your car to "keep it running good". I never popped
the hood except to put in more windshield washer fluid - which I
was constantly running out of because of the bad weather
conditions of where I went to college for 4 years. Needless
to say the car ended up falling apart and I wasn't about to spend
hard earned money to get it fixed. Once a car has hit
206,511 miles, it's time to call it quits. Well for this
little trooper it was anyway.
That's when I started looking into
Hondas. When I bought this car, I knew absolutely nothing
about it, except that you could get them used pretty cheap and
they were economical and reliable. And that's what I was
looking for, back then anyway. Little did I know that Hondas
are about the most uneconomical car you can buy. I spend
more money in modifications than I do for my monthly payment on
this car. It has become my new obsession, to the obvious disapproval
of my wife. Who now owns her own VW Jetta that she can do
with whatever her pretty little heart desires - as long as I can
do the same with my Civic.
So we bought the Honda in September from
a crummy used car dealership, got a rotten deal, got a DX, it's
poo green, doesn't have a single power option on it, the tires
were worn to the steal, the hubcaps wobbled to and fro, no
tachometer, no ash tray, the cup holder lid was in a perma-popped-open
position, the right front fender liner was totally missing, the
brake rotors were rusted to the core, and well, the list went
on. Since that day, I've fixed every little problem the car
has had. Except
that it's still green and still doesn't have power anything, but I
can live with that - for now. So it's actually come a long
way from where it started only a few short months ago.
Anyway, this car is a work in progress.
I do not drive around thinking, "my car is so bad. I'm so
cool. Look at me." However the opposite of that is
true. In fact I'm the guy that is usually pulling up next to
someone else in a really sweet ride and rolling my window down to
compliment them on it. By no means are any of the
modifications I've done to date completely permanent or
unchangeable. I buy stuff and change things as my mood and
my budget dictates. Whatever I'm into that week or that
month, I'll set out to do and probably get done. With the
ultimate end mod being a B Series engine.
Enjoy the site, enjoy the pics, take any
tip or trick you want to your own car and see how it works out for
you. Laters.
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