If you area a child of the 80's you may remember this awesome CRX that Car & Driver built. You can now own it.
Wow, that takes me back. I remember reading the original articles.
I saw that but $20k seems steep.
now thats a car for BAT
Automatic is disappointing. I want those recaros!
So this car is a unicorn for me. It's a significant factor in why I love CRXs. I was looking for it for years and I knew it was sitting, dead, in storage. I tracked it down about six months ago but Joe and I could not agree on price. I've known that I could offer him $20k and take it home, but I've been waffling. Some days I convince myself that I'd be a fool to pass it up, some days I realize I have too many other projects.
I've finally decided to let it go. I love my '85, and other than being really technically interesting and having some great history and a car I lusted after as a kid, it doesn't really bring anything to the table. But man it's killing me. I'm glad to see it's finally going to see the light of day again. Joe is like many gearheads, convinced it just needs a bit of work and he can put it back on the road. IIRC it's been inop for something like 15 years by this point and it has more damage than he told me about in our earlier conversations.
The automatic was part of the original design. "Can we have two independent drivetrains that are synchronized by nothing but a throttle cable?".
clutchsmoke said:Automatic is disappointing. I want those recaros!
Easy button for not having to work out two clutches and shifting two H patterns together. Clutchless shifting and sequential for motorsport is a little simpler.
Can you put one in reverse and one in drive to execute a "gross display of horsepower"?
ProDarwin said:Can you put one in reverse and one in drive to execute a "gross display of horsepower"?
Set up the steering for the back and crank them both to lock. You could spin in place doing tiny AWD donuts.
ProDarwin said:Can you put one in reverse and one in drive to execute a "gross display of horsepower"?
Someone saw a certain Hyundai Tiburon in the pages of Sport Compact Car.
I remember reading the original articles on that car.
I think there were two evolutions of it, the first with CRX engines and the second with Accord engines. The two donor Accords were damaged in shipping. I think it was a train accident. So in addition to being the Easy(ier) Button, the automatic transmissions were available.
One of the other things I remember was that they mentioned how poorly the Mugen body kit fit.
It's still a cool piece of history though.
There were indeed two evolutions. But it was always an automatic. If memory serves, proving it could work with the autos was a primary point of the project. Plus Honda got behind it :)
I'm glad it got used for a while after being sold, but it kinda has the air of "rode hard and put away wet" unfortunately.
Hey, I remember that car. It came to one of our dyno days in 1997 or so. We have the article online but sadly the file is messed up. I'll see if we can fix.
This brings up memories of Anson's VW DuRocco with dual 16v power...
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