1986 Honda Civic SI
This car was given to me by my uncle and it was quite an eye opener. At the time I got it, I hadn't driven anything close to a high performance car in a while. While this Civic wasn't the CRX model, it was ungodly fast, had sports car instrumentation, a stick-shift and gobs of go. I'd call it high performance.The reason it was given to me was that it had rusted its fuel line and Honda wanted to replace it as one piece. That makes sense because I’m sure they didn’t want to be liable for a spliced fuel rail. Of course this was going to make it a hugely expensive fix as the fuel line was one-piece from the fuel tank to the engine by way of the passenger compartment. Honda wanted something like a kilobuck for it. Not wanting to pay the bucks, my uncle gave me the machine hoping I could do something with it. I did. I spliced the line with a piece of steel tubing. My buddy Jon helped and we finished it in an evening. I drove it aggressively all over town and loved it to bits.
Its demise came when I was driving home and I broke a torsion bar. It was a particularly ugly Minneapolis chuckhole. At the time my uncle’s warning about how much time and money he’d put into it rang in my ears and I sold it. Even with the high mileage (170 thou. plus), I bet I would still have this car had I not bailed on it. Ah, more regret.
