'78 Accord Hatchback . . yes!

happy day! . . here it is . . I picked up my new friend today . .

it's a '78 Honda Accord Hatchback with 2-speed Honda-matic

I didn't have my good camera with me today . . so I only made some quick pictures with a crappy point-and-shoot camera . . but I guess it's better than nothing

yes . . it's baby blue
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yes . . it's a Honda!
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yes . . it does have rust :nervous: . . but only a little on the hood . . so still very good! (about the only "big" optical issue)
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yes . . the steel wheels are pretty rusty (but I do have a second almost perfect set)
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yes!! . . it's black inside . . nice eh?
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yes . . it still has it's original radio . . . isn't that cool?
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Car looks mint! Love the interior.

Looks good

Nice to see pictures finally! Love that color, and the interior is super clean! Good work saving it from the jaws of the crusher! Rusty wheels are easy to clean up. You can get paint stripping wheels that go into your drill, which are sort of a softer pad. It will take all the paint and rust right off. Then a fresh coat of paint with a rattle can will make them look brand new.

Check this out:

https://www.3geez.com/forum/showpost....&postcount=186

How many miles are on it?

I'm not worried about the wheels . . . I do have a very good 2nd set . . and it looks like I might get a set of alloys as well :nervous: . .

it has 200'000km right now (125'000miles)

nice car

really clean car i like the interior alot, and the color its different.

Great find man, I can't believe they would crush that.. totally mint! Take care of the little bit of rust; regular maintenance and you will have a nice little care for a long time yet.

Very nice. Love that colour!

OMG!!!!

It's YOU that bought this car?

Congrats on your new Accord. My girlfriend saw that car on Facebook this week and told the guy NOT to scrap it. The guy sold the car the same day so I was afraid it would meet the junkers for a broken window.

It's soooo nice you came here and plan to keep it. This car is a true gem.

If you can't find a window in Switzerland, I'm sure someone here can send you one.

Hi!

That was mine !
I am really happy that this car is in "good hands", and hope it will be on roads for some more years ;)

Just some details :
Check very often the oil level, the engine burns a lot of it (1l/1000km); until you change the valve stem seals.
The radiator leaks on the top (middle), it does not leak a lot (0.5l / 2000km), but the level has to be completed sometimes.


and a surprise : i changed the only loudspeaker ... I took the "best" of the market in that size : Hifonics Titanium TX462.

The chassis was treated with some "aluminized" mixture, when new.

You are the 4th owner : 1st for about 20 year was a really carefully Portuguese living by Neuchâtel (CH),
Then a woman until 2007, in the "hills" between Neuchatel and France border.
Then me... I sold it because my Mustang II needed my 1 place garage.

that's funny . . . worldwide famous because of Facebook . . . @qwertz, thanks again for that car . . I love it . . . it will have a safe and dry home at my place ;)

I posted a picture on faceb. on the Honda Accord group, because i found that the gallery was a bit tasteless, with all those recent , tuning-excessive Hondas...

Oh about the engine, it's a 76-78 and not a- 79-82 that had different carburation, ignition, gearbox... (the spark plugs, and cables were not the good ones, and I changed them about 1 year ago)

The book I gave you is about those recent versions.

Oh wow, I am pretty sure I saw it in that Facebook group too! I was excited to see a 1st gen in there!

ahhhhh nice and cozy in this thread

that car looks exactly like one I used to drive

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Originally Posted by qwertz

I posted a picture on faceb. on the Honda Accord group, because i found that the gallery was a bit tasteless, with all those recent , tuning-excessive Hondas...

Oh about the engine, it's a 76-78 and not a- 79-82 that had different carburation, ignition, gearbox... (the spark plugs, and cables were not the good ones, and I changed them about 1 year ago)

The book I gave you is about those recent versions.

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Haha what do you expect?

So I saw that car over there as well, but don't understand a thing from the captions and the comments :D

Its good to see it went to good hands.

okay . . I got my hands on a set of alloys for my little Accord . . and boy, what a set . . they are 3-piece BBS Motorsport wheels from 1978 . . 7.5x13 and 8.5x13 (not 100% sure . . the guy who sold em to me gave me the dimensions . . I need to measure em . . but they are wiiiiide!!)

original 4x120 (that's why the guy had em for sale forever . . nobody wanted em . . so I got em dirt cheap :rolleyes: ) . . no funny drilling or machining . . no headaches . . .

just some test fitting :nervous: before taking em apart . . for cleaning, polishing and repaint

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feel free to be jealous . . :D

Rims are siiick I'm. Jealous!!! =P. Cars gonna look dope dumped on those with some stretched tires!!!!!! How's the 13x8 wheel fit, are you going to be able to tuck it under the fender or quarter panel? Great find on some og 4x120,s!!!

holy wheel gap batman. rims are sick. did you just test fit one? if not PIX PLEASE.

Shit now I'm jealous!

Its gonna look dope once cleaned up!

Looks like those might be for the old Mazdas. I think the really, really old RX-7s or maybe the RX-3s also used the 4x120 pcd. At the time, it wasn't such a weird size, I don't think. Especially since it's got the RWD-style offset. Pretty awesome that they're real, 3-piece BBS wheels.

Dang dude. Your car is the cat's pajamas. Very nice ride. Very nice wheels!

well . . it looks like the rim were designed for a FWD car . . the wide ones have high offset and the "less wide" have low offset . . . and there was a marker-writing on em which said that the wide ones were mounted up front . . which would make sense for a slalom/autoX FWD car . . . . .

first, I did mont em the way they were . . the wide ones in the front . . and the small ones on the rear axle . . but then the rear ones stud out off the fender about 2 inches . . . which looked very funny . .

so I changed the way the dishes on the small ones are mounted to the centers . . they were on the outside of the center piece . . and now the dishes are connected "behind" the centers (nothing wrong with that . . the BBS rims are designed to work both ways) . . so now the small ones fit perfect and are going on the front axle . . the wide ones stick out about 1 inch . . and I guess that should be ok with some stretched tires . . .

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Originally Posted by Lil Mike

holy wheel gap batman. rims are sick. did you just test fit one? if not PIX PLEASE.

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the wheel gap is that big because the car is on a jack . . the wheels are not touching the ground . . . and as you can see on the 2nd picture . . I "testfitted" 2 . . .

here you can see how the front wheels are gonna look . . with the changed centers . . I actually like the look . . and the fact that the front and rears gonna look different . .

front
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rear
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