The Beater!
As winter steadily approaches, I cant afford to keep plowing snow with the front of my car because it is so low lke i do every other year. That being said, a fellow roomate of mine and I decided to purchase a winter car. a 1995 civic coupe with monster truck style winter tires was acquired from my old boss at a summer job for only 800 bucks! Thats 400 a piece for a running clean honda civic coupe.
http://www.makingapril.com/greg/A.jpg
The reason we got it so cheap was the thing needed a little bit of work, however, with my previous knowledge and a garage full of parts removed from the hatch I got this thing up and running in a jiffy.
It needed brake pads
http://www.installuniversity.com/mb/install_graphics/amg_brake_drsp/brake%20pads%20removal.jpg
As well as a heat shield to be removed to stop an annoying chatter when the car idled
http://eliteone.com/civic/heatshield.jpg
Finally it needed a bushing to be replaced on the steering rack because the steering was looser when turning side to side.
http://www.suspension.com/8-304-b.JPG
And with 50 bucks in parts I had laying around I upped not only the drivability of the car but the overall value. After a nice snowfilled stop and go winter, I will be able to sell the car for twice what I had purchased it for.
http://www.makingapril.com/greg/A.jpg
The reason we got it so cheap was the thing needed a little bit of work, however, with my previous knowledge and a garage full of parts removed from the hatch I got this thing up and running in a jiffy.
It needed brake pads
http://www.installuniversity.com/mb/install_graphics/amg_brake_drsp/brake%20pads%20removal.jpg
As well as a heat shield to be removed to stop an annoying chatter when the car idled
http://eliteone.com/civic/heatshield.jpg
Finally it needed a bushing to be replaced on the steering rack because the steering was looser when turning side to side.
http://www.suspension.com/8-304-b.JPG
And with 50 bucks in parts I had laying around I upped not only the drivability of the car but the overall value. After a nice snowfilled stop and go winter, I will be able to sell the car for twice what I had purchased it for.
posted by Eric at
6:38 PM
1 Comments:
Where do you keep getting all these cars from for hundreds of dollars? The Civic looks decent in terms of appearance, but the front-wheeler isn't going to go anywhere unless you can get it out of the driveway. You're better off trying to steal the Escape parked next to the coupe to tackle the winter weather. Seems like you got it pretty cheap at least, so that's a plus. The Civic looks more like a "dd" car than a daily driver, but we'll see what happens. If you need a ride that bad, just call me and I'll bring over my American noise-maker and we can go out and have some southern Delaware fun together.
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k_ricker06, at 2:58 PM
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