I recently spent $1600.00 on a 104K '96 Accord four door LX.
In this generation, the LX did not have VTEC, incidentally.
The car is on newish Kendas, which would not have been my first choice of tire and had recently had the front brakes done with new rotors. The timing belt has been replaced.
It runs and drives well and is utterly rust free. It looks great underneath and you'd swear that it must have spent its life in a dry climate and had never seen road salt, which cannot be true as it is an Ohio built car that was delivered new to a Honda employee who passed it on to his son and had spent its entire life a couple of counties north of here.
The interior is clean and free of wear while the paint is mostly okay, with some of the clear starting to wear off the roof.
Driving it home I found myself going well over eighty most of the way and the drive brought back memories of many fast miles spent in this generation of Accord, including the '97 LX 5 spd coupe I put around 70K on myself and a '94 EX sedan (VTEC!) that I drove to Spokane.
These were very nice driving cars in their day and in some ways are better than our '12, with better compliance over road joints as well as better tracking. Not nearly as quiet as the '12, though and much less powerful.
I gave it an oil change and did a drain and fill of the transaxle, which will also get a couple more drain and fills in the near term.
I thought that this was a reasonable price to pay for a clean and rust free car that had seen good maintenance and was of known history.
What do you all think?
In this generation, the LX did not have VTEC, incidentally.
The car is on newish Kendas, which would not have been my first choice of tire and had recently had the front brakes done with new rotors. The timing belt has been replaced.
It runs and drives well and is utterly rust free. It looks great underneath and you'd swear that it must have spent its life in a dry climate and had never seen road salt, which cannot be true as it is an Ohio built car that was delivered new to a Honda employee who passed it on to his son and had spent its entire life a couple of counties north of here.
The interior is clean and free of wear while the paint is mostly okay, with some of the clear starting to wear off the roof.
Driving it home I found myself going well over eighty most of the way and the drive brought back memories of many fast miles spent in this generation of Accord, including the '97 LX 5 spd coupe I put around 70K on myself and a '94 EX sedan (VTEC!) that I drove to Spokane.
These were very nice driving cars in their day and in some ways are better than our '12, with better compliance over road joints as well as better tracking. Not nearly as quiet as the '12, though and much less powerful.
I gave it an oil change and did a drain and fill of the transaxle, which will also get a couple more drain and fills in the near term.
I thought that this was a reasonable price to pay for a clean and rust free car that had seen good maintenance and was of known history.
What do you all think?
