Buying an older Japanese car.....

[jdm-rhd]

too bad...

what were they asking if you don't mind me inquiring for reference sake?

 

[Loco38SUP]

Well, the CRX was covered in cancer. So bad, on the driver side a-pillar there is a dime-sized hole that went right through to the back of the windshield glass.
Not one panel without huge rust holes or rust blooms popping through the paint from behind.

Way too bad, the interior is mint and it even had working AC and factory OEM Honda fog lights.

Oh well, struck out and now I have nothing to distract me from the new Z!

That doesn’t sound like a garage kept for 20 years type of car. I hate it when people are sketchy like that.

-RJM

 

[West Aussie]

Well, the CRX was covered in cancer. So bad, on the driver side a-pillar there is a dime-sized hole that went right through to the back of the windshield glass.
Not one panel without huge rust holes or rust blooms popping through the paint from behind.

Way too bad, the interior is mint and it even had working AC and factory OEM Honda fog lights.

Oh well, struck out and now I have nothing to distract me from the new Z!

Sorry to hear that

 

[Raven1]

That Sux Mang !!

 

[Blackbeard]

the guy i did work for down here imports classic jdms and stuff i had a GTR R33 i was working on for him i wanted to buy it but thhey wanted about 40k

 

[takemorepills]

too bad...

what were they asking if you don't mind me inquiring for reference sake?

$2500. It would make a good parts car, as long as it's not body parts you needed.

 

[takemorepills]

That doesn’t sound like a garage kept for 20 years type of car. I hate it when people are sketchy like that.

-RJM

Yeah, I'm surprised my coworker only said it had some small rust spots on the sunroof panel... those spots were holes bigger than a quarter and 6 of them!

His wife even opened the hatch and said "it even comes with snow chains" then it became clear to me that this car was not babied in a garage. It was left in a garage I'm sure, because it's as water tight as a cheese grater!
I'll give it some credit, every body panel did line up better than most I've seen.

 

[trackratZ]

Well, the CRX was covered in cancer. So bad, on the driver side a-pillar there is a dime-sized hole that went right through to the back of the windshield glass.
Not one panel without huge rust holes or rust blooms popping through the paint from behind.

Way too bad, the interior is mint and it even had working AC and factory OEM Honda fog lights.

Oh well, struck out and now I have nothing to distract me from the new Z!

Too bad that didn't work out, fun CRXs that dominated autox back then. Here's one you can drive around with (not garage queen). The ITR!

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/cto/d/sherman-oaks-2000-acura-integra-type/7513609650.html

 

[takemorepills]

Too bad that didn't work out, fun CRXs that dominated autox back then. Here's one you can drive around with (not garage queen). The ITR!

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/cto/d/sherman-oaks-2000-acura-integra-type/7513609650.html

Wow, $28.5K for a rotted Integra!

When I was researching the CRX for modern feedback (I am very familiar with CRX in the context of "back in the day" but now that they are 30+ yrs old....) rust was by far the biggest issue, maybe the ONLY issue besides terrible mods.
Very few people understand how bad rust is. They see a rust bubble in the paint and they think it's just a surface problem, and so many suggestions to "just sand it out and touch it up".
Nope.
If rust is bubbling up or blooming through paint, that's because the entire backside of that panel is rotted, what you can see in your paint is actual hole....that entire area is gone. No amount of sanding and treatment will do a damn thing to slow it down.

That Integra is going to need some expensive bodywork, even if they are lucky it's just one panel from a previous improper repair (pretty likely a car accident repair from many years ago not properly done) it will still be expensive, and how can you be sure the body shop does it in such a way that it won't rust out again in 5 years? You really can't trust anybody these days....

 

[fliplover]

Wow, $28.5K for a rotted Integra!

When I was researching the CRX for modern feedback (I am very familiar with CRX in the context of "back in the day" but now that they are 30+ yrs old....) rust was by far the biggest issue, maybe the ONLY issue besides terrible mods.
Very few people understand how bad rust is. They see a rust bubble in the paint and they think it's just a surface problem, and so many suggestions to "just sand it out and touch it up".
Nope.
If rust is bubbling up or blooming through paint, that's because the entire backside of that panel is rotted, what you can see in your paint is actual hole....that entire area is gone. No amount of sanding and treatment will do a damn thing to slow it down.

That Integra is going to need some expensive bodywork, even if they are lucky it's just one panel from a previous improper repair (pretty likely a car accident repair from many years ago not properly done) it will still be expensive, and how can you be sure the body shop does it in such a way that it won't rust out again in 5 years? You really can't trust anybody these days....

We had a saying in the Navy, "Rust never sleeps!"

 

[trackratZ]

Another nuts optimistic seller of a second gen.

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/cto/d/los-angeles-1991-honda-crx-si-owner/7517016587.html

 

[takemorepills]

Another nuts optimistic seller of a second gen.

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/cto/d/los-angeles-1991-honda-crx-si-owner/7517016587.html

That's a very nice car, but the miles are too high for the asking price. It'd need to be under 60k miles to even consider that asking price.

 

[Blackbeard]

you know what i was also looking at i think its funky but i like it the pulsar gtir

 

[takemorepills]

you know what i was also looking at i think its funky but i like it the pulsar gtir

We had the Pulsar NX Twin Cam, and the NX2000 which I actually liked, very rare to see one in good condition, actually rarely see either ever.....

 

[Raven1]

Older cars have that charm a lot of the newer models don't, whatever, I'm just and old dude who likes old cars and women who somehow stay the same age . . .