Back in the '80s

And that was the first year you could pick an Accord that had the VIN start with a J or a 1
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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I still feel exactly like I did when I was 18:D ,guess I’m lucky!! A few grays coming in,but nothing a good bottle of dye can’t fix haha!!
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 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.
 
I'm 1987, when I was 11 years old, my parents bought a metallic blue Golf. My son owns this car now and keeps it running.
 
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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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.
 
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.
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.
It had Criminally mistuned suspension under that faux jewel looking, weak performing junk box.
Hated Honda since, Though the mid 80's Civic 3 door was a GROUNDBREAKING modern design, the the killer handler the 89-91 with wishbone front suspension.

As far as getting ON the throttle to steer around, I had to do every I could to keep from T-boning that rig broadside in the passenger door where a woman was sitting. I saw the white of her wide-open eyes. It was a ~ 1973 Caprice in some gross green colour with black Vinyl roof.. The drive pulled right out in front of me when I was about 30 ft away.

I should have clipped the rear quarter - but my instinct is to miss - not hit something.
Plus I was not ampd in "race" mode.

If I had a do-over I would go home another way. But NO do overs.
 
Back in the 80s....

none of our cars had power windows, and the first one which didn’t have vinyl seats came around in 1984 in the guise of a 4mt VW vanagon, water cooled, with a total of 65HP. Nothing had power steering in our driveway until 1989. I could be found driving a 1957 belair around town, along with a few other classic-owning families, or a used escort. Dad drove A hand-me-down Datsun b210 with that million-mile motor, but the hospital he worked at disallowed him from parking it there, as it was not befitting for the hospital to be seen with that car. he parked down the street. We had a 76 rabbit, 77 corona wagon, the 57, and later when us kids started driving the escort, and later the family moved towards Honda’s almost unanimously and later a couple of subarus. The first subaru stored the spare right over the intake manifold. The silent hero was the toyota corona which soldiered on over 400,000 miles, though it ate wiring, fuses and bulbs, especially as it aged. Moms 89 accord Lxi was technology from another world! The corona and the vanagon hold the best memories. My world was strangely (sadly) (perhaps fortunately) devoid of any successful dating while we owned the 57.

fuel injection rocked our world when things would start and light off before killing the battery. The 2 speed power glide in the Chevy could be roll-started at just over 25mph. We used old oil as weed killer, and sucked a cap of brake fluid into its vacuum powered wiper motor twice per year or it would seize up.

back then we’d blow dust off the brake drums ourselves and start a siphon for coolant and fuel by mouth. Stupid.
 
Back in the 80s....

fuel injection rocked our world when things would start and light off before killing the battery.
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.
 
My 1986 300ZX turbo and my 1987 Toronado Trofeo both had digital dashboards and would talk to you in this sexy chick's voice:D
 
My 1986 300ZX turbo and my 1987 Toronado Trofeo both had digital dashboards and would talk to you in this sexy chick's voice:D
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.
 
In the eighties I bought a brand new crate engine, LS6 454 for $2600 dollars. I installed an 850 double pumper Holley, headers, HEI, and put it in a very nice 70 short bed CST Chevrolet pickup truck with a 373 posi. Son of a gun would sure get it. Miss those old days.
 
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 '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.

The problem was too much rear bias in the brakes. After that I was extra careful when braking in the wet but could reach that threshold very easily.
This was my second FWD car. The first was a '77 VW Scirroco that definitely had the proper rear brake bias. I know this because when I owned it Florida had a yearly car inspection that required a braking test. You'd drive on the braking platform and slam on the brakes to measure braking force at each wheel. The first time I did this they told me the rear brakes didn't pass. So I did it again but this time as I hit the pedal I also yanked the parking brake. I passed. VW knew what that a car with so little weight in the rear needed less rear brake. The state of Florida and Honda in 1980, not so much.
 
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