anyone seen this accord before?

[SQ is the SQUAD]

http://www14.plala.or.jp/kemper/ac_2.jpg

http://www14.plala.or.jp/kemper/ac1.jpg

[MessyHonda]

nope...looks kinda werid...but unique

[SQ is the SQUAD]

look at the guage cluster

[Pico]

Looks like they installed a digital guage setup

[Hazwan]

I hate center gauge.

And.. red?? eww

[88Accord-DX]

Interesting gauge set up. If my interior looked like that, I would have a true "CHERRY BOMB" :D

[1320boy]

Hey i like it.:)

[MECM]

:barf: lol I hate the red interior..Just a little too much.

[MessyHonda]

some one put some time into it...to bad its auto....Pico tell you wife to see the pic...il bet she will love the shifter thingy :rofl:

[ghettogeddy]

i want the digi gauges but put were they go i need to draw up my dash idea so i can make it happen

[Pico]

some one put some time into it...to bad its auto....Pico tell you wife to see the pic...il bet she will love the shifter thingy :rofl:
Hey thats the prelude automatic shift handle
(Anybody Want One I got One)

[MessyHonda]

^^^:bowrofl: :bowrofl: :bowrofl: :bowrofl:

[SQ is the SQUAD]

i might have to find me a set of those old school american racing rims

[Civic Accord Honda]

it would look beter if it was Black or gray or black and red :) :thumbup:

[MessyHonda]

^^^:rice:

[SQ is the SQUAD]

now that i think about the outside is this car is aswome, the interior is pretty CAH

[nskforlife]

i want those kick panels!!!!!!! looks like they did some glass work.

[gp02a0083]

those look liek digitech, or cyberdyne digi gauges but in the center? sorry i dont go for that echo ish junk

[military mase]

never seen that car before. I remember a champage looking car that made some enclosures like that one a couple of yrs back. Lot of red. Would look better if there was another color to set it off.

[A18A]

lol i thought someone took a rhd dash and lhd dash and put them together so there would be no gauges :P

[russiankid]

Red disturbs the mind, so i see no point of having it on the inside of a car. It doesn't look good in my opinion, the outside tho looks pretty good. the moving of the gauge cluster is odd, it just doesn't look right.

[Accord88LX]

too much red, bluck

[Sporno]

it may be rice , but its old school rice .. there probly werent many parts available at that time .. i wanna know whats under the hood

[speedpenguin]

Very very 80s.

[MessyHonda]

Very very 80s.

early example of rice...lol before fast and the furious came out.

[Cheeseburger]

wow sick car. it would be nice to have more pics

[SQ is the SQUAD]

i really love the exterior of this car.

[Cheeseburger]

i wonder what kind of lip it has.

[2oodoor]

i really love the exterior of this car.
Where oK, did you find the picture? That pic looks like a professional set with the background and all.
It looks dam good, but I dont care for the location of the digiguage setup exactley. and somebodies Full Throttle slushie from Sonic must have sexploded in the cockpit.....good or bad, it seems too familiar..rofl...
I totally disagree with it looking eightys, or rice was cool before fried rice errr fast and furious rice..... what ever. for example, the wheels, lowered techniques,guages saturn style, blackout corners, speaker enclosures, Hey I see alot about that car that was not even around in the eighties except maybe in concept. The red out interior, yep eighties fer sure. the rest of the car....
Pre milliniuem maybe , but not eighties...but then I could go on to say what eighties was cause I was borned already by then... :devil:
lotsa stickerd up cars, colored out, disco light turned trans am dash guage bezels, dull alloy wheels, fog lights,blah blah blah

[speedpenguin]

I'm talking about the interior

The exterior is actually very sleek. And if you think I was saying that in a bad way then you are not aware of my preoccupation with 80s cars.

[SQ is the SQUAD]

i found that pic on some japaneese web site, its was all in japaneese so i couldent tell you what it was about

[jschatte]

ewwwww


auto.

[mkymonkey]

i actually like the whole car as it is. and i actually love the solid red interior, looks fucking awesome in my opinion! very very very eighties, like a concept car version of ours....kinda sorta. i likey

[epic1400cs]

Hey thats the prelude automatic shift handle
(Anybody Want One I got One) Does the lude shift handle fit with no mod bolt on and works like OEM?? Thats looking very nice.

I had a good look at the web page of these pictures. These are from a shop called Kemper in Kyoto (not Tokyo) Japan. They are specialised in making 'custom' car. It says, they do full body paint, smoothing, lowdown, aero parts, alloy wheel, exhaust, custom audio, security, leather seat, leather steering, interior paint, custom counter panel, decals, etc. I think they are interested in styling. I can read Jap because I am genius.

The car in question is 1989 Accord US coupe (exported model to Japan)

Audio System
Source Unit/Rockford RFX-8240
Equalizer/Rockford OEQ2
Crossover/Kicker X2i
F-Speaker/Rockford FNQ2514
Amplifer/Rockford Punch100a2
Rockford Punch150a2
Woofer/Rockford RFP2412
Dakota Digital/6 Gauge Universal Oval
Digital Instrument Panel

http://www14.plala.or.jp/kemper/ac1.jpg http://www14.plala.or.jp/kemper/ac2.jpg

http://www14.plala.or.jp/kemper/ac3.jpg http://www14.plala.or.jp/kemper/ac4.jpg

[Pico]

Does the lude shift handle fit with no mod bolt on and works like OEM??
I just had to drill new side mounting holes

[SQ is the SQUAD]

who really imports a car from the us to japan???? if tihs is as old as it looks maybe the snaged a us model while it was still in japan

[RamThis]

Interior is nasty as hell!!! TOO much red, needed something to offset it, like a black or grey or white or some kind of contrast.

I recognized the Dakota Digital guage setup, nice. Just that it needs to be in line with the driver. Centered looks like crap IMO and not practical at all.

[epic1400cs]

who really imports a car from the us to japan???? if tihs is as old as it looks maybe the snaged a us model while it was still in japan Honda co Ltd imported only hundereds of coupe from Honda USA in 88 and 89 cos it looked so cool and American so Honda decided to import them. They were sold like brandnew play station lots of people waited making lines and sold out in 2 seconds. It was a kind of odd cos Honda is Japanese company and importing their product from USA, but is true.


I just had to drill new side mounting holes Cool! Is that from 2nd gen Lude right?

[A20A1]

Yes, but while it was being worked on... not completed, the dash was still stock.

Unless he purchased those speaker housings from the guy I saw making them.

[speedpenguin]

Honda co Ltd imported only hundereds of coupe from Honda USA in 88 and 89 cos it looked so cool and American so Honda decided to import them. They were sold like brandnew play station lots of people waited making lines and sold out in 2 seconds. It was a kind of odd cos Honda is Japanese company and importing their product from USA, but is true.


Yup, Honda had just opened their new US manufacturing plant, I think this was the Ohio one. This plant was the only place the Accord Coupe was produced, so any other country that got them had them imported (It wasn't like people were importing them privately, they were sold through dealers like the-made in England-EP3 Civic Si, and built to JDM specs.)
And now you know why the 1988 Accord Coupe is the one you get to play as in GT4, even though we all want to drive one with a B20A.

[SQ is the SQUAD]

aaaahhhhh. i though all 3geez were made in japan. would i be silly to go buy gt4 just to drive my own car?

[speedpenguin]

No, hell, that's the main reason I bought it. :D

As a bit of trivia, certain items produced in Japan for export and then re-imported by private companies are called re-imports and are actually rather hotly contested among certain groups. Two examples are motorcycles (We might get the shaft on cars but JDM is not necessarily the holy grail for motorcycles) and porn DVDs (The good bits are washed out or digitally masked in Japanese releases).

Also remember that not all Japanese car parts are necessarily better, it's not unheard of for Japanese NSX owners to put Acura badges on their cars. It's part of the reason we like JDM here. Foreign=exotic.