The Official Simontibbett Car History Thread...56k Naw...No Cliffs...Lol
Ok so tons of people always reply "what do you drive?" when I make a mean statement on their car. So here is a long detailed entry of every car I owned minus some stock daily drivers/cars I flipped within a week that I didn't even take a picture or even think of. I've owned lots of shit, but what you call shit I may love.
Lets begin!
1. 1981 Honda Accord
This car was my first car. It was given to me by a local body shop when I was fourteen to build into my first race car. When it arrived I was obviously excited to be getting a car to build into a race car, a very strange platform to use, but I always was a fan of unique things even if they didn't perform as well as a more common build. The car was very clean and had a great body, interior, chassis, but the engine was SHOT. We gave up on the build and I paid the scrap yard to come get it.
I never got a real photo of the car but here is exactly what it looked like, same color and all!
2. 1989 Honda Civic STD
The blue tic. I got this cute little thing shortly after the Accord went bye bye. A family friend had owned it for years and blew the motor so offered the car in exchange for some yard work and tree cutting. I said sounds good, worked, and the car came a week later on a tow truck. The car was really clean when I got it and was only used as a "tow vehicle" for cross country drives as he was a semi-pro bicycle racer.
My plans from the start were to build this car into an SCCA ITC car. Being fourteen or so obviously the first thing I did was gut the car. I gutted it quite roughly too not saving any of the interior but treating the event as a "Junkyard Wars" episode. The back seat came out with a knife and hacksaw and the carpet came out with razor blades in about twenty different pieces.
We sent the engine and head off to be rebuilt, it was a D15B1. Yes, dual port fuel injection. You all have to understand road racing has classes, you have rules, they don't allow engine swaps in ITC, if you brought a B16 swapped hatch you'd be up against cars you would have no chance at all at winning against. Anyway, the engine was bored .040 over, received bolt ons, some other misc. items and it was set.
I was lucky enough to receive a gracious donation from another racer who gave me a seat, fuel cell, harness, shoes, you name it. To me that was possibly the thing that made my "build" actually happen and finish in a reasonable time.
Next was the suspension I couldn't afford to do much but I ran H&R race springs, Tokico Illuminas, I purchased new bushings, sway bar, etc. It handled pretty well. We also added a Kirk Racing six point roll cage legal for SCCA and NASA competition.
Anyway I got the car together and had a blast with it. I ran tons of events with it including some autocross and daily drove it. Sadly I got stupid and decided I wanted to swap it and run Honda-Challenge with NASA so bought a D15B VTEC to swap, got the motor in, started the wiring and gave up. I sold it on here for I think $1200 which was about as much as just the safety equipment alone.
3. 1987 Honda CRX HF
I found this midget of a car in the local Athens newspaper after I sold my Civic and decided to buy it. However when I got there the owner told me I couldn't actually buy it today he was just writing down offers of people who went to look at it and would call the winner.I said a few mean words, told him I'd give him $500 and left. Three days later he said he'd take $500 so I went to get it.
The car was a one owner car, MINT interior as in BRAND NEW looking, the body was very straight minus a tiny bit of surface rust on a quarter panel, even the front plastics weren't cracked. I did a few mods to it such as Konis and Ground Control coilovers in the rear, that was about it really. I left the interior. The car didn't even have a radio from Honda but a block off plate, I installed a CD player, but other than those things it was stock. Slow as a golf cart but handled like a go-kart.
I blew the motor up one day and parked it in my driveway. Then it went to the junk yard. Not sure why.
Not an actual photo of the car:
4. 1988 Honda CRX SI
I bought this car while I still had the 1st gen. I bought it for $400 from a local guy who drove it everyday. It had a few mods such as an Apexi cat back, Skunk 2 coilovers, stage 3 clutch, intake, ECU, a few other things. I got the car painted a random color. The paint guy asked what color, I saw a police van in their lot, I said around that color a little lighter, surprise me. lol
I kept the car basically the same. I autocrossed it a little but that was about it. It was pretty quick for a D16. Actually it was strangely quick for a D16 as it would easily walk a friends B16 CRX.
I had some early model Integra GSR wheels for it I usually ran but for some reason autocrossed on steelies.
The center wiper wasn't always there but it rained and I only had one wiper so...
5. 1989 Nissan 240SX
This car pissed me off like no other. I got it in a trade for the CRX as I was sick of front wheel drive and wanted to drift.I got the car and it was bone stock. I had large plans for it but just kept getting held back with replacing parts to keep it moving before I could buy fun stuff for the car.
Eventually I got it worked out and kept the KA even though I did want a CA. I put a cam and ECU in the car from JWT, header, exhaust, intake, AFPR, clutch, flywheel, and some other things. The car was fun but just big, heavy, and a 240.
6. 1992 Honda Civic CX.
This car was a true hunk of shit. The car had been just abused through its life. When I got it it was rough and on the way home it got worse at the hood flew up on the interstate smashing the sunroof to bits and cracking the hell out of the carbon fiber hood. I put hood pins on it and called it a day. I got the car in a trade for the 240 as I was sick of 240 owners, sick of drifting, and sick of working on the thing.
The car was slower than balls but made up for it with suspension that made no sense but handled amazingly. In the mountains no joke this car was hard to beat. Yeah I'm just saying that because I owned it, no, it really did handle like a damn go-kart on steroids, probably because I never had to slow down.
I sold the car on here though for $1800.
7. 1990 Mazda Miata
I got this car the day after I sold the white Civic. Best decision I ever made. I bought the car for $1700 from a guy in Dallas, GA and drove it back to Athens late at night with it snowing. It came with tons of spares and tons of mods, most were already done. All I did while I owned it for over two years was finish the roll bar, put on a aftermarket sway bar, race seat, harness, gutted it, exhaust, Megasquirt, and some other things. I did have to put a new motor in it once after I had the previous motor set at a 9k redline.
I tracked this car a lot and had a blast with it. It's not until you drive one that you understand people who call them gay have NO idea what a car is.
BEFORE SWAY BAR LOL:
8. 1975? Porsche 914/4
I've always had a HUGE as in insane passion for 914's. Ever since I was little going to vintage races and whatnot the 914 was always one of my favorite cars to see. A race prepped 914 is one of the sexiest cars I can imagine.
I got this car in a trade for the Miata from a kid in Gwinnett. It was a really clean example and even though it ran like crap I knew it was worth the trade. The Miata was getting really warn out and tired and the 914 would be easy to sell when the time came. Well the time came a month later with a blown motor and I sold it for a lot more than the Miata was worth.
9. 198* BMW 318IS
If you want to know what the worse car ever made is, here it is, the M10 powered E30 BMW 318. This car was slow, boring, slow, boring, slow, and just flat out miserable. I hated this car with a living passion the third day I owned it. I had no hope for it. I tried to sell it for $400 perfectly fine and running. Nobody else wanted it either. I even tried to blow it up. If you ever consider buying one of these, you're far better off buying a new set of shoes and shoving a dildo up your ass.
10. 1992? Plymouth Laser Turbo
This barney looking hunk of shit was traded to me for the E30. The owner told me that it had a slipping clutch but it didn't...it didn't even change gears to begin with. Yes it was an auto and yes it was sick nasty.
I got the car home and found it was common for the TCU's in these to go bad, so a visit to the junkyard found me tons of TCU's but none with the right harness I needed, so I thought hey I'll just make it a manual, tiptronic style.Kind of. It was a complex and extremely hard car to drive that took a day to learn. You HAD to shift manually and you better not fuck up because you CAN put it in 1st at 100mph, I did at 65mph and let me tell you...
The car other than that modification was stock, it made a good daily driver for the week or two of ownership, as long as I was out of that E30 I was happy.
11. 1991 Honda CRX SI
I somehow managed to trade the DSM for this car straight up. When I got the CRX however it did need some body work. The front end was yellow, the rear was rattle canned flat black, it had steelies on the back and Rotas on the front. The wheels went away in exchange for some bronze Miata wheels (light light) and the body was roller painted black. Then I sold it for $2200.
The car had a B18 "crate motor" in it with very low miles, header, exhaust, clutch, lots of other mods. It was fairly quick, it ran a really low 14 in Commerce.
12. 1985 BMW 325E
This is my most recent car most of you know. It was a 325 E30, I basically kept it the way I bought it the whole time I owned it. It was a unique modded car, it had a street sign for a skid plate, a front valance from a Corolla, lots of cool things courtesy of a local guy many of you I am sure know. I've always loved his unique ways.lol
It was either this car or a E36 325IS with a 2.8 swap but after test driving that car and getting pulled over I considered it bad luck.
Anyway I did have some plans for it to make it a track car but spent most of my time and money keeping it running like the 240. I put a race seat in it, harness, different wheels, a sway bar, that was about it. I sold it for $2200 with no real idea what to get. Most of my money is going elsewhere in the automotive world right now.
13. 1985 Toyota MR2
I just bought this car a couple weeks ago for $1200. This cute strange looking Fiero wannabe red thing is a fun little car to drive. It's better than a Fiero too because they are faster and don't light on fire as often. I don't have any major plans for it other than suspension upgrades, I want to track it probably just track days as like I said my money is going elsewhere for racing.
So simply put I'd like to put some basic suspension on, a roll bar, race seat, harness, a few bolt ons, wheels/tires, and have at it! I am probably ordering GC/Koni next week for it but we shall see.
If you're going to respond with some e-thug comment as I am expecting you better be ready to e-fight it out. lolol
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