Thought I'd share "some" of the story of my daily driver civic. A quick 3 year catchup so I can hopefully keep it up to date
I bought it in 2020 as I wanted a cushy reliable daily driver I would legitimately leave well alone and not modify so I could focus time and money on all the other projects.
I couldn't find anything worth buying for ages then lucked into the civic on marketplace, the vultures usually beat you to the good stuff but even with a net cast as wide as RETRO CARS FOR SALE on facebook i still managed to snap it up. quick train trip into london to collect it from a super cool guy, had a nice drive back in it with no issues other than forgetting to pay the dart charge which went to the seller who paid it for me (who I repaid several times over as thanks) and an epic wheel vibration n/s which was a badly buckled steel.
I wanted a manual one, in black, non sunroof. I got an auto in grey with a sunroof but the GL spec level is pretty nice, twin carbs, power steering electric everything etc. I've never owned an auto so it was 'interesting' to drive at first . I'll probably miss a lot of pics and info of stuff I did but here goes, I love the car and drive it 24/7
Having daily driven Renault 5's forever the Civic was like having a religious experience, it's a superior car in every single way but that didn't stop the civic getting sidetracked by building an r5 turbo van
Anyway, I proceeded to leave the civic well alone as intended. It was in decent condition but the paintwork is shocking across most of the car, it's a combination of laquer peel and then the paint shrinking
The arches rust from the inside out, it had bubbling but nothing major so I left it for a few years. An entire week had passed before I started to not leave it alone anymore
you know it's going to be good when the coilovers cost more than the car.
scored some real jdm legit bro wheels on marketplace and gave them a refurb and new 195/50 proxes, handled nice on the new wheels and coilovers, this wasa good start to the project totally necessary for the car
Did a lot of parts hauling and generally used the car like this for a while enjoying it and problem free.
I kept it pretty clean/unmessed with for a long time but saw the potential to have a really cool usable daily driver so I decided to continue down the rabbit hole..
I bought it in 2020 as I wanted a cushy reliable daily driver I would legitimately leave well alone and not modify so I could focus time and money on all the other projects.
I couldn't find anything worth buying for ages then lucked into the civic on marketplace, the vultures usually beat you to the good stuff but even with a net cast as wide as RETRO CARS FOR SALE on facebook i still managed to snap it up. quick train trip into london to collect it from a super cool guy, had a nice drive back in it with no issues other than forgetting to pay the dart charge which went to the seller who paid it for me (who I repaid several times over as thanks) and an epic wheel vibration n/s which was a badly buckled steel.
I wanted a manual one, in black, non sunroof. I got an auto in grey with a sunroof but the GL spec level is pretty nice, twin carbs, power steering electric everything etc. I've never owned an auto so it was 'interesting' to drive at first . I'll probably miss a lot of pics and info of stuff I did but here goes, I love the car and drive it 24/7
Having daily driven Renault 5's forever the Civic was like having a religious experience, it's a superior car in every single way but that didn't stop the civic getting sidetracked by building an r5 turbo van
Anyway, I proceeded to leave the civic well alone as intended. It was in decent condition but the paintwork is shocking across most of the car, it's a combination of laquer peel and then the paint shrinking
The arches rust from the inside out, it had bubbling but nothing major so I left it for a few years. An entire week had passed before I started to not leave it alone anymore
you know it's going to be good when the coilovers cost more than the car.
scored some real jdm legit bro wheels on marketplace and gave them a refurb and new 195/50 proxes, handled nice on the new wheels and coilovers, this was
Did a lot of parts hauling and generally used the car like this for a while enjoying it and problem free.
I kept it pretty clean/unmessed with for a long time but saw the potential to have a really cool usable daily driver so I decided to continue down the rabbit hole..
