Model: Honda Accord 2.0i 16v
Year: 1989
Mileage: 83000
Tax: Nope
MOT: Nope
Location: North east Norfolk
Price: £150
Additional Information:
I bought this from another RR-er intending to use it as a track day car and then eventually put it back on the road. Unfortunately, while I've managed to do the former, I'm not much closer to getting it on the road than I was six months ago, and it's just sat in my unit at the moment doing not very much. In an ideal world I'd keep it, because I really do like it, but I'm having some cash flow issues at the moment so I'm having to rationalise the fleet as I'm paying far too much in road tax and storage costs.
It's quite a special Accord this one - it's a limited edition which was apparently done to commemorate Honda's return to Formula 1 racing. As such it has the most powerful engine option available at the time (155 bhp, if memory serves) along with pretty much every option you could get at the time - aircon, cruise control, headlight wipers, electric sunroof, electric aerial, speed sensitive PAS, ABS, the list goes on and on. And being a Honda it all still works fine - even the aircon is cold.
It also goes like the clappers, and gave a very good account of itself at Marham in April. It handles very tidily too. The engine is a peach - it hasn't used any oil or water since I've had it, and even round Marham the temperature gauge has never gone over half way. I've treated it to a new pair of front discs as the old ones were a bit warped, and it's also had a bit of welding done to one of the rear arches (which I haven't got round to painting yet); the other arch isn't as bad. I do have proper arch repair sections for it somewhere.
Bad points: the rear shocks are getting a bit tired, as is one of the ball joints on the front. The tyres haven't been changed since Marham so the fronts are somewhat scuffed. Also the ABS light sometimes comes on, especially when the car has been left standing. Start the engine and the light goes out as it should, but when you use the brakes for the first time the ABS system then starts doing some kind of self test and after a few seconds the light comes on. I'm not sure quite what's causing this, but it might be an issue for an MoT - the light goes off as it should initially, but could potentially come back on again during the brake test.
Other than that it's all good, and would happily drive anywhere on trade plates. It makes a surprisingly good track day car, or it could quite easily be put back on the road where you could have fun embarassing boy racers and Audi drivers - it really is a very quick car for a 20-year-old family saloon.
I'll try to take some pictures tomorrow if I can, but it's currently parked at the back of my unit, behind the Skoda which has the front suspension in bits and the Austin Ten which has the cylinder head off after one of the head bolts gave up the ghost after 64 yeras of loyal service, so it'll depend on whether I have the energy to heave the two of them out of the way. In the meantime, here's a pic of the Accord at Marham, courtesy of bodieanddoyle of this parish:
Year: 1989
Mileage: 83000
Tax: Nope
MOT: Nope
Location: North east Norfolk
Price: £150
Additional Information:
I bought this from another RR-er intending to use it as a track day car and then eventually put it back on the road. Unfortunately, while I've managed to do the former, I'm not much closer to getting it on the road than I was six months ago, and it's just sat in my unit at the moment doing not very much. In an ideal world I'd keep it, because I really do like it, but I'm having some cash flow issues at the moment so I'm having to rationalise the fleet as I'm paying far too much in road tax and storage costs.
It's quite a special Accord this one - it's a limited edition which was apparently done to commemorate Honda's return to Formula 1 racing. As such it has the most powerful engine option available at the time (155 bhp, if memory serves) along with pretty much every option you could get at the time - aircon, cruise control, headlight wipers, electric sunroof, electric aerial, speed sensitive PAS, ABS, the list goes on and on. And being a Honda it all still works fine - even the aircon is cold.
It also goes like the clappers, and gave a very good account of itself at Marham in April. It handles very tidily too. The engine is a peach - it hasn't used any oil or water since I've had it, and even round Marham the temperature gauge has never gone over half way. I've treated it to a new pair of front discs as the old ones were a bit warped, and it's also had a bit of welding done to one of the rear arches (which I haven't got round to painting yet); the other arch isn't as bad. I do have proper arch repair sections for it somewhere.
Bad points: the rear shocks are getting a bit tired, as is one of the ball joints on the front. The tyres haven't been changed since Marham so the fronts are somewhat scuffed. Also the ABS light sometimes comes on, especially when the car has been left standing. Start the engine and the light goes out as it should, but when you use the brakes for the first time the ABS system then starts doing some kind of self test and after a few seconds the light comes on. I'm not sure quite what's causing this, but it might be an issue for an MoT - the light goes off as it should initially, but could potentially come back on again during the brake test.
Other than that it's all good, and would happily drive anywhere on trade plates. It makes a surprisingly good track day car, or it could quite easily be put back on the road where you could have fun embarassing boy racers and Audi drivers - it really is a very quick car for a 20-year-old family saloon.
I'll try to take some pictures tomorrow if I can, but it's currently parked at the back of my unit, behind the Skoda which has the front suspension in bits and the Austin Ten which has the cylinder head off after one of the head bolts gave up the ghost after 64 yeras of loyal service, so it'll depend on whether I have the energy to heave the two of them out of the way. In the meantime, here's a pic of the Accord at Marham, courtesy of bodieanddoyle of this parish:
