I bought my first car! '88 Civic Wagovan baby! (Pics added)

Post by **Czernobog** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:37 am

Mod_Man_Extreme wrote:Man, I do not like car buying already and I'm only three days into it.

Trust me, you're far from alone.

Post by **Mod_Man_Extreme** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:05 am

I know right?

Hopefully I can make this work and score something as I'm gunning for this as my first accomplishment of the year.

Post by **Mod_Man_Extreme** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 7:26 am

I also totally need some help finding crash test and reliability info on this car.

I can't find any info on cars older than 1995 online anywhere so any help would be a good boost to my confidence.

It lacks airbags or ABS but that's par the course given it's age. Retrofitting either seems to be making it a money pit unless anyone has a really good solution. So, I'd like to know I at least have a decent crash test rating from when it came out.

Not to mention I have no real way to check on reliability for it.

Post by **lwcook** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:33 am

The only thing I could find as far as safety ratings was here: http://www.crashtest.com/explanations/archive/crash.htm

For reliability, I usually use carsurvey.org and check whatever one has to say. Here is the link for the 86 accord. http://www.carsurvey.org/reviews/honda/accord/1986/

It's usually a good indicator of what to expect out of older cars.

Post by **Mod_Man_Extreme** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:57 pm

Thanks lwcook!

I guess Priority #1 now is to rice removal (aka un-fucking the damage done by the previous owner' "tuning"). I can live with a stir-fry half & half engine for a bit, but I'm gonna want to work on getting it back to factory shape.

Tips and guesstimates on cost?

Post by **Arbitern1** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:05 pm

Safety....Psstt....Nobody cared about that until like 1990.

Post by **Zeonik Freak** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 12:45 am

Arbitern1 wrote:Safety....Psstt....Nobody cared about that until like 1990.

Pfft... you know how to test safety on a car, when you survive the crash and your ride isnt to f'd up to drive it home.

Post by **Mod_Man_Extreme** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:21 pm

Update!: The bastard I was gonna buy my car from ended up selling it to someone else first.

So, I'm back to looking for a car again.....sigh.

Post by **Jrecee** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:25 pm

Probably out of your area range

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/ctd/2090107169.html

Post by **Mod_Man_Extreme** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:46 pm

Jrecee wrote:Probably out of your area range

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/ctd/2090107169.html

*beats head into desk*

Anyone want to road trip this one to me? It's a desert over here for anything decent under $1k like this!

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