Well this is my inglorious bastard, the 1978 Honda Civic 1200. Bought it last year, looks like shit but its my shit
. Previous owner painted it camouflage. Man this car was hideous but it has just over 91,000 original miles, original motor and transmission. The interior is a mess and actually has seats from a 6th Gen model. Dash is in shambles but you got to love the original wood grain steering wheel. This is my side project for the next few years given I don't get a good offer to sell. I bought the car for $150, low mileage and runs, that right it runs!Click on the thumbnails for full size!!!
Bought some supplies to help the exterior, also pulled the interior all out to see how bad the floor panels were. These old Civics are notorious for rusted out floors. Mine was no different.
So are you could see the floor was in shit condition. For the time being due to the weather at the time it was getting cold fast. The floors need to be cut out and replaced eventually so I just vacuumed and cleaned the floors are best as possible. I decided to just patch the holes as a temporary road worthy fix for now. Once I move and have a garage again I will strip the whole car down and see what all needs to be done. I am sure this car will be a huge money sink hole but what project car isn't.
The next day i started working on the exterior, the camouflage had to go as it was masking a lot of the cars under paint issues. Sanded it down, fixed some holes, etc and made it road worthy until that day comes. Everything I have done so far has been to just preserve the car until I can really break it down and dedicate my time to it.
The car looks 1000x better than when i bought it. Now I am sourcing parts from all over the country. Luckily I found a guy that is about 2.5 hours away that has four of these cars sitting in his back yard just waiting for me to come and pick what I want off of them. So watch this thread over the next year for dramatic developments!
to an original build.
