alex87lxi
02-18-2006, 08:38 AM
It's been a long time since I posted on this site. As a matter of fact, I was a site member before the big re-organization back in 2000. I always enjoyed posting on here, met a lot of great people and traded parts with fellow Accord nuts all over the country. Like anything else, in the quest to explore new projects, my 87 Accord Lxi Hatch was relegated to being merely a commuter car, and I toyed with musclecars. In December of 2004, 2 days after I got back from serving 6 months in Iraq, I was driving the Accord when I was violently rear-ended at 55 mph by an uninsured (imagine that, an uninsured driver in Southern California!) driver. The Accord was totaled, of course. From the point of impact to the point where the car stopped I had travelled 185 feet. I was at a stop light and after the rear hit, I went under a brand-new Camry in front of me. The hit was so hard that it broke my seat track and somehow, the radio wound up in my lap. But as a true testament to the quality of a Honda, I walked away. My back was jacked up for about a month, but I have no lingering effects. I think the worst thing about the whole accident was that my own insurance company gave me shaft by olny declaring that the value of the Accord was $1495. I had recently put over $2800 in the car by doing a complete mechanical rebuild. The car ran and handled great, and even today, my 2002 Civic EX cannot even compare the fun and the driving experience that the Accord gave me. The car just felt right. I looked around for another one to replace it, but every one that I found was trashed. Hondas run forever, but you still need to do maintenance on them. All the ones I found had never been maintained in their life. My son is nearing driving age, and we are casually looking for an Accord. I wanted to get back into these cars again, and I figured that this site was the best place to do it. Over the years that I had my Accord, I collected a lot of extra parts. Just last week, I went through them and decided that I'm running out of room for other things and will post an ad in the next few days to see if you guys may be interested in them.
I just wanted to drop a line, :wave: say hello, and I'm excited to rejoin this cool website.
I just wanted to drop a line, :wave: say hello, and I'm excited to rejoin this cool website.