Lol such nice work wasted. If he just LOVES that style Civic, I can totally see it. But the saddest thing is that when he's done and goes to sell it, it's not worth shit and he will get offered a primered, Ebay turbo kitted EF for it.
GREAT work.....waste of time.
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here we go with the whole selling thing.... is it impossible for anyone to yhink that someone might keep there car, i know how ia is car swappping every couple weeks, but there are some peoplewho keep what they build.Originally Posted by Glides
and for you sir "worth shit" lol with all the proof this guy has on the build, i think if he was to sell it he would get more than shit
Dude here is my 95 civic that I had, and built for 7 yrs. I thought I would keep it forever. But guess what happened. I was almost 30, and I got tired of all the attention from teenage boys, got tired of riding around in a fwd, horribly weight balanced car with a rough suspension, and was actually embarrased to be seen pulling into work in it at my age. I took it to a trackday, and found out what a wasted effort it all was. Just the wrong platform to even start with. If you want to be 40 yrs old, and still want to drive around in a 90 something civic that's your perogative, but I doubt that will happen. The best thing I can say about my experience is I learned a lot. I did everything myself (except for paint). Obviously peoples tastes have changed since I had the car, and I'm sure it's considered rice today.
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I hear you. I really cant wait to replace my car with a more comfortable car that blends in and be able to really do what I need to it. They say the best mod you can do for your track car is to buy a daily.
As I read your post I was thinking this where you buy an M3 and then I saw you sig.people grow older priorities change. None the less great build.
Thanks man. I'm really not trying to hate here, just trying to put things into perspective for others. I wish someone had done that for me. I could of got a M3 a lot earlier, and paid it off already. I don't regret modding my car, but I did take it too far IMO. At the time I thought you could make a honda civic as fast, or what you wanted it to be. When I did sell it, I only got about 1/4 of the money I put into it. AND I did almost all the labor. So imagine if I had payed shops to do everything. It's not going to be worth much in the future. These are not like 60-70 model muscle car special editions that were only sold in the hundreds or thousands. There were over 100,000 civics sold every year in the us in the 90's.I hear you. I really cant wait to replace my car with a more comfortable car that blends in and be able to really do what I need to it. They say the best mod you can do for your track car is to buy a daily.
As I read your post I was thinking this where you buy an M3 and then I saw you sig.
well thats you.. the owner of jjspec, jimmy is not a teen age kid he still drives a honda. all this shows is that you dont love the company as much as i do. now i want you to think about the mustang, back in 64 1/2 when it first came out guys probly dint think much about it.... just think about the first owners who fell in love with that car only later to sell it. bet you ask them today and atleast half would say they regret it, not becouse how much they are worth, but becouse what those cars brought them, all the memorys of that car.. i take care of my car as if it were my child.. now when i have kids ya it probly will go down some in my list of things to worry about, but i can honestly say that i wont havea kid till i know that i can do it without the fear of having to sell my car, i can tell you know that as long as im alive my car will be with me
I seriously doubt that. I have owned probably 10 hondas over the years, as well as owned stock in the company for 5 yrs, and I will probably buy more in the future. I just sold my S2000. We still have a 2005 Acura TL, and a 2006 Acura MDX. I plan to get a 2008 MDX next yr to replace the 2006. I've got a lot of love for honda, and their philosophy, but I will never dump 10 times what one is worth into one again. I would much rather get a newer car every 2-3 yrs. Just makes the most financial sense, and I enjoy the new technology/conveinence/safety, etc that comes with each new one. But to each their own I suppose.
Alot of people have this mentality that since these Civics and stuff are so cheap and mass produced that they wont ever be valuable in the future. But look at how much these older cars were back in the day. 3, 4, 5 grand. They were mass produced, but in smaller numbers because there simply wasnt the population there is now. But the fact is that these ARE the hot rods of this generation. And there is no doubt that 20-30 years from now, a clean example like this car could easily fetch double or triple what he put in it.
I hope you're right. Would be cool to see. But just like the muscle cars that fetch lots of money today, people will most likely want low mileage, matching numbers, never wrecked, pure factory examples. I could be wrong. One side of me hated to sell my car, but I didn't exactly want to drive it anymore, and I had to make room for something else in the garage. I could see a low mileage NSX, S2000, Type-R with little to no mods fetch a lot of money in the future, but not modded civics. You never know though. Only time will tell.
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