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"Spridget" (dustbustervans) 09/26/2015 at 18:42 • Filed to: None

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What think Oppo of the first generation Honda Civic?

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Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 18:44

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10/10 would hoon

Punk_Girl_98 > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 18:49

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Looks cool!

Blondude > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 18:49

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Awesome

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 18:50

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I like it. I’ve heard the carbs are tricky to tune, though.

MultiplaOrgasms > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 18:59

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Rust. Lots of it.

Manny05x > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 19:07

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Love it, specially that yellow.

Spridget > MultiplaOrgasms 09/26/2015 at 19:10

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Yeah, rust is the Mk1 Civic’s Achilles heel.

Berang > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 19:12

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They look cool, but...

they’re not actually that awesome to drive compared to some other 70s compacts.

Spridget > Berang 09/26/2015 at 19:14

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Example, please?

Spridget > Manny05x 09/26/2015 at 19:15

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Yeah, the yellow is one of the best features of the car in my opinion. It reminds me of the yellow Renault Le Car’s came in.

Spridget > BaconSandwich is tasty. 09/26/2015 at 19:17

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It wouldn’t be that hard to change the carbs out though.

McMike > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 19:17

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My dad went through a few of these in the late 70s early 80s. He would buy them broken, fix them, commute with them for a few years, then sell them.

Spridget > McMike 09/26/2015 at 19:20

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According to what I’ve heard, these had Beetle-esq popularity back then, so it was probably pretty profitable.

McMike > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 19:24

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He wasn’t looking for profit, he was looking to keep miles off his nicer car.

He used these things for beater commuters.

We had a brown hatch, and a blue ... coupe? I don’t know what they called the ones with the trunk.

We called the brown one “Rusty Jones” because of the sticker, and the fact that it was rusty.

Berang > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 19:24

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I would take a Renault Le Car anyday over a 1st gen civic, or even a Subaru 1400.

BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 19:25

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It’s every Civics Achilles heel. Until the mid 2000s. Then it was clear coat...

BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 19:25

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Mk1 Rabbit.

Iheartmy365kHonda - Car enthusiasts do like FWD > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 19:27

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love it want one

Spridget > Berang 09/26/2015 at 19:28

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Yeah, I would take a Le Car over this as well. I think the driving experience is different though, because the Civic has more Mini -like handling, and the Renault has the classic floaty French suspension. (I’m just going off what I’ve heard, I’ve never driven either.)

Spridget > Iheartmy365kHonda - Car enthusiasts do like FWD 09/26/2015 at 19:29

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Who doesn’t?

Spridget > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather 09/26/2015 at 19:30

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Which was an unreliable, POS, copy of this.

Spridget > Punk_Girl_98 09/26/2015 at 19:30

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Wayyyy cooler than most of the modern Civics.

Berang > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 19:36

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The civic has a stiffer, choppier ride, but I don’t know that the cornering is all that good. Unfortunately I just packed up all my old car mags, but I think the Civic had skidpad results that were near identical to just about everything else in its price range. It also has a modicum of torque steer if you get hard on the gas pedal. Incidentally when the N600 arrived in England it was found that it surprisingly didn’t handle nearly as well as the mini despite tester expectations.

The Renault has very soft suspension but it also handles very neutrally and is generally a joy to drive hard (or lightly).

Spridget > Berang 09/26/2015 at 19:49

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We need a review/story about the Le Car. Now .

Berang > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 19:55

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Jon E. did a review on here a while ago. I’ll write about my adventures with my old one some day...

MultiplaOrgasms > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 20:03

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More like every japanese car until the 2000s.

Spridget > Berang 09/26/2015 at 20:36

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Yeah, I read both his reciew and the story he wrote about his Black Beauty.

The Reanult and Civic have a common factor in that everyone has a story about them. Maybe one was your first car, or maybe your crazy uncle owned one, or maybe your buddy in high school owned one and you beat the hell out of it. Both of the cars are old enough that you don’t see them anywhere anymore, but new enough that people remember seeing them when they were new, and were cheap enough and common enough when new that everyone had a chance to expierence one, unlike a Countach or a Boss Mustang or a Hemi Cuda, which, while valuable, are so rare that they are almost unrelatable. Same thing with an old Beetle, or bus, or Saab, or Corvair, or MG. Everyone has a story, and the stories are one of the best things about the cars.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Spridget 09/26/2015 at 22:43

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True enough.

I like the style of Rutledge Wood's Civic he recently sold. It was sort of a pale green with gold-ish colored wire rims.