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Right on brother, cheers!Same here, CHEERS
Mike B
Right on brother, cheers!Same here, CHEERS
Mike B
And that was the first year you could pick an Accord that had the VIN start with a J or a 1Back in the 80's....
I paid almost TEN GRAND for a brand new '83 Honda Accord sedan
I had an '83 3- Door that I almost died in. Too stiff tuning on rear springs or anti- sway.And that was the first year you could pick an Accord that had the VIN start with a J or a 1
Same here. Ever since I was a teenager people have been telling me that when I got older I would get tired of "those little foreign sports cars" and start buying Barcaloungers on wheels- but all these years later I'm currently giving a hard look to a Supra 3.0 and a CPO M2 Competition.I still feel exactly like I did when I was 18 ,guess I’m lucky!! A few grays coming in,but nothing a good bottle of dye can’t fix haha!!
Fiat-Chrysler spun off Ferrari as a separate entity (with FCA as the majority shareholder) back in 2016.Yes, I believe they still do.
II had a 77 El Camino 350. It was half fast!I had a '75 Chevy Malibu with a hot 400 small block....I think. I've posted about it before on here and it might have a different engine in that post. I know I had a 75 Malibu and it was fast. Let's leave it there.
but not when these cars were conceived. oh wait, maybe they owned Alpha Romeo, but surely not Alfa Romeo.FIAT ownes Alpha Romeo
Bet you lifted the throttle or braked. Not blaming you, it's instinctive but it causes exactly what happened to you. I did the same once in an even shorter wheelbase car but luckily hit nothing. I've since learned to keep on the throttle and oversteer doesn't happen. Now you must just keep it from understeering, but current car is not into understeer luckily.I had an '83 3- Door that I almost died in. Too stiff tuning on rear springs or anti- sway.
On a State road, I steered into the oncoming lane to avoid a car that pulled out of a side road right as I approached him and looped the car. It was raining lightly. I was threshold braking going backwards but the telephone pole was too close. Seat back pan folded in half and I was thrown out the rear side window. I hit my head on the telephone pole and was knocked back into the car. The DIN snap in radio also flew out of the dash and hit me between the eyes. That car was not set up for high speed rear collisions.
My roommate called it the "Honda Accordion" after I showed him the wrecked car the next day.
The inspirational Honda was the Civic 3 door debut in 1984
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That car would do a 180 if you were going down a hill in the rain - even at 20 mph - and quickly pulled the E brake.Bet you lifted the throttle or braked. Not blaming you, it's instinctive but it causes exactly what happened to you. I did the same once in an even shorter wheelbase car but luckily hit nothing. I've since learned to keep on the throttle and oversteer doesn't happen. Now you must just keep it from understeering, but current car is not into understeer luckily.
One cold morning in 1988 or 89 I went out to start my '70 Grand Prix before school. Cranked and cranked but it wouldn't start, and then finally BOOM! The muffler blew up and the shed filled with forty years of High Plains dust. I finally got it started, blasted through town, and left it at the Co-op to have duals installed. It was still another ten or twelve years before I actually owned something with fuel injection.Back in the 80s....
fuel injection rocked our world when things would start and light off before killing the battery.
My 1986 300ZX turbo and my 1987 Toronado Trofeo both had digital dashboards and would talk to you in this sexy chick's voice
Talk about 80s tech.... that voice box was a mechanical device. I can’t remember- i Think it was similar to a record... a spinning drum with different tracks to drop a pickup on, or something like that. It was not some digital synthesized voice, but a recorded one.My 1986 300ZX turbo and my 1987 Toronado Trofeo both had digital dashboards and would talk to you in this sexy chick's voice
My 1983 Merc 300d had a $32k MSRP! I know because I still paid hefty excise taxes on it in 2016. That money would have bought four brand new Ford Fairmonts/ Granadas/ Futuras/ LTD IIs or whatever they called them that year.Cars were cheaper then, Brand new 1984/1985 BMW 318i cost a mere $16.5K. 318i Bimmer was a truly YUPPIES car
https://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z17143/BMW-318i.aspx
I had an '80 Accord that did the same thing. Stock and unmodified (no ABS). I topped a curve on a hill on a wet road and had to brake to avoid a bicyclist right in front of me. The rear brakes had too much bias causing them to lock and the back end started to come around. I corrected a couple of times but the rear end came all the way around. I straightened the steering wheel and was driving backwards at about 60 mph. And I can tell you from that experience that brakes don't work as well going backwards as they do going forwards. I figured my best bet was to get straight again so I jerked the wheel and did a bootleg 180* and got it rolling forward again. I didn't hit anything or leave the 4 lane road I was on in the process.Bet you lifted the throttle or braked. Not blaming you, it's instinctive but it causes exactly what happened to you. I did the same once in an even shorter wheelbase car but luckily hit nothing. I've since learned to keep on the throttle and oversteer doesn't happen. Now you must just keep it from understeering, but current car is not into understeer luckily.