huskerfit |
03-03-2014 01:47 AM |
'81 Civic Goodness
Wow, that brings back memories! Yours is nicer than the one I picked up in 1989 with 80K and a hint of rust around the rear wheel wells. I was in college then, and I drove my gold cutie all over the Midwest. I racked up at least 10K just delivering pizzas. In late August 1990, five of us shoehorned in for a 6 hour drive to Alpine Valley. Unbeknownst to us, we witnessed Stevie Ray Vaughan's final performance there.
The only time she ever stranded me was when the alternator failed returning from a Pixies concert at First Avenue in Minneapolis. It was December 1990, and it was already quite cold in southern Minnesota. At 1:00 am, me and my buddy started hoofing it, and the next car that came down the highway was a student from our college. Good Civic juju!
When she hit 150K in 1992, its final voyage (under my ownership) was to Bozeman, Montana. I needed to pick up a friend who would help me drive it and my "new" '89 DX hatchback to northeast Iowa. At the end of the summer, leaving for grad school, I sold it to a physics professor for $50. He drove it for 2 more years. What a car!
P.S.
When I met my wife, she was driving a 2001 Chevrolet Metro (aka Suzuki Swift). It was a reliable car, but a miserable POS by any standard. My '81 Civic was 10 times better than that heap. Honda Love runs deep.
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