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Honda Original Fanboy Becomes Twenty-Seven-Year Original Owner
Bought my 90 Si new February 1990 at 22. At 48 and 311000 miles later same engine, it’s still BOMB. A perfect storm in a tiny pod. Almost supernatural the way this car runs-so quiet and smooth-gearbox like butter and excellent braking. Good lord, I never considered I needed another vehicle until I needed extra room for my family. Will never sell it. Much much love to Honda for making such a supreme machine. XX
Great job on the video and congratulations to the owner for sharing his story with us! I agree with the owner when he says by doing nothing to the car actually makes it stand out at a show. I’ve owned my ’90 Corrado g60 for 22 yrs and I have only done tasteful mods to it, and the same thing happens to me when I take my car to shows, people ask many Qs about how they never see any unmodified etc.
HA! How funny! I traded my Scirocco for the SAME REASONS.
My fiancé had a Civic that ran like a watch. After my Scirocco left me stranded AGAIN, I made the switch. Bought a “poor man’s 928”; a Gen. 2 Prelude. Great car, but when I saw the CRX Si, I just had to have it.
“… fun quick car. Didn’t need a lot of power…” that’s always been my preference as well!
This is one of my favorite videos by far. Thanks SO much.
Mine was a ’91, as I recall. Black, like this. Si. 108hp. Looked like a bullet with that cool Kamm tail. Big sunroof. Suspension Techniques springs, Tokico adjustable shocks. Lowered about 1-1/2 inches or so. And with Yokohama AOO8’s (lasted about 15K miles, worth every mile), she cornered like she was on rails. Very fun to drive. Not enough room for a new family though. Had to say good-bye.
I was a teenager back then, and I thought those large tilt/slide sunroof (Si only feature, I think) was one of the best thing ever. A couple of years later, I had 86 Mr2 and my best friend had 89 CRX Si, and we had a lot of fun street racing up in the mountain. It is true, that cars were cheap(er) and exciting back then.:p
I enjoyed this video as I have all the others. My first, new car was a white/grey 1984 CRX 1.5, the “mighty” 76bhp upgrade from the HF model. The CRX was one of the best cars I’ve ever owned, very few problems. I had it 11 years, the later years I had “replaced” it with a larger vehicle out of necessity, but couldn’t bare to part with it even though I could’ve really used the money. I remember picking it up as I’d ordered it sight unseen and seeing the US spec. version had no back seat as I’d seen in the pictures in Road & Track. That didn’t bother me as I was a college student. The car offered plenty of cargo room and that is what I really needed. I remember driving around campus (University of Georgia) that year getting stares in a sub $8K car and that was hilarious. So, 11 years later and and ~ 111,000 miles I got just over 50\% what I paid for it in a private sale, 2 parties fought over the car! (I found this site as a result of owning an ’86 Graduate which I still own and enjoy.)
The CRX was almost my first new car. There was a dealer demo with after market rims and other items I can’t remember. They were asking full sticker plus rims etc. My father kept saying its has 2k on it, you can’t ask full price. Fed up, we left the dealership and ended up at another Honda dealership where he bought a Prelude for me instead.
I agree Gianni, Honda’s designs have no passion these days. They’re computer designs, efficient, without any quirky factors.
Nice video. My first new car was an ’87 CRX Si as well, except mine was red. Still miss the car every so often, but don’t regret selling it in ’92 to buy an Alfa GTV that I still have.
This car and the other Hondas in the video really serve to remind one how far Honda has strayed with the bland-tastic bloat-mobiles they build today. We had such high hopes for the CR-V to be the CRX reborn…
