denhonda
11-01-2006, 02:04 PM
I checked out your door mldg clips thread & your cardomain site, offthahook.
I dunno what to say... you are soooo sad! (read on, no offence intended!)
Before I found this site I thought I was the only one in the world who had such a major thing for old Honda's. I used to search the scrapyards almost every weekend for parts (none at all in the yards here these days) & almost throw a party over finding things like genuine Honda rubber mats for the footwells. And I tell you finding not one, but two genuine Honda rubber dash mats still puts a smile on my face!
The fact that I've had several years without Honda's featuring in my daily life is odd on reflection, but I've still held on to the passion & had at least two Accords tucked away for the future. In 2001 I had my '82 restored but only used it for a year as work commitments took over my time & it got laid up after less than a year on the road. Upon seeing a low mileage bargain on ebay in 2003 I started tinkering around with them for a few months but lack of time & interest put them to bed again.
A year ago after seeing my '82 wasting away in the garage I decided it was now or never, so got it back up & running & have used & enjoyed it several times this year! I saw another bargain on ebay recently & got that too, probably TBH to replace the previous ebay one (needs bodywork) but I'm still in two minds about what to do longer term with them all.
So here I am now, well into rekindling my 2g fetish (got 4 of them), checking out ebay for parts, digging out old manuals, brochures & trawling the internet for anything 2g I can find. Thats how I found this site a few months back. On the phone today ordering up parts & figuring out when I can get the time to do work on them.
It seems funny driving the same model of car today that I drove when I first passed my test in '94. Inbetween times I've driven all kinds of more modern machinery but find sitting behind the wheel of an old Accord quite refreshing. Sure they're not the quickest cars on the road but they certainly are good to drive. These days of course they seem to turn heads as they are so rare, which is pretty weird. They are soooo-retro aswell, which is cool.
Anyway, in short, what you've got to do to fit a door moulding amazes me & that cardomain site is wicked! Reading through it all has certainly given me inspiration to do what I need to do & I won't feel such a complete sado doing it either! :cheers:
I dunno what to say... you are soooo sad! (read on, no offence intended!)
Before I found this site I thought I was the only one in the world who had such a major thing for old Honda's. I used to search the scrapyards almost every weekend for parts (none at all in the yards here these days) & almost throw a party over finding things like genuine Honda rubber mats for the footwells. And I tell you finding not one, but two genuine Honda rubber dash mats still puts a smile on my face!
The fact that I've had several years without Honda's featuring in my daily life is odd on reflection, but I've still held on to the passion & had at least two Accords tucked away for the future. In 2001 I had my '82 restored but only used it for a year as work commitments took over my time & it got laid up after less than a year on the road. Upon seeing a low mileage bargain on ebay in 2003 I started tinkering around with them for a few months but lack of time & interest put them to bed again.
A year ago after seeing my '82 wasting away in the garage I decided it was now or never, so got it back up & running & have used & enjoyed it several times this year! I saw another bargain on ebay recently & got that too, probably TBH to replace the previous ebay one (needs bodywork) but I'm still in two minds about what to do longer term with them all.
So here I am now, well into rekindling my 2g fetish (got 4 of them), checking out ebay for parts, digging out old manuals, brochures & trawling the internet for anything 2g I can find. Thats how I found this site a few months back. On the phone today ordering up parts & figuring out when I can get the time to do work on them.
It seems funny driving the same model of car today that I drove when I first passed my test in '94. Inbetween times I've driven all kinds of more modern machinery but find sitting behind the wheel of an old Accord quite refreshing. Sure they're not the quickest cars on the road but they certainly are good to drive. These days of course they seem to turn heads as they are so rare, which is pretty weird. They are soooo-retro aswell, which is cool.
Anyway, in short, what you've got to do to fit a door moulding amazes me & that cardomain site is wicked! Reading through it all has certainly given me inspiration to do what I need to do & I won't feel such a complete sado doing it either! :cheers: