Hypothetical Build - Soul-less, un-fun, boring Civic edition.

Today a coworker offered me his daughters 96-00 (not sure on the year) Civic sedan for dirt cheap. I saw the car once when I helped put an axle in it 2 years ago. I remember it being straight body wise, but its been being driven by a college kid so who knows what it looks like today. It has a roasted auto trans. I mentioned it to the wife and she didn't say "yes, what a great idea. You are as smart as you are handsome" nor did she say "We don't need a 7th car and I want a divorce".

So, we currently have a Honda fleet of a 93 Civic Chumpcar, a 1995 Integra ex-chumpcar (I need to re-home it if anybody is interested. Its a shell with a cage), a 2003 Civic that my wife daily drives, a Honda lawn mower and a Honda snowblower. Each and every one of them sucks my will to live with how boring and soul crushing their un-European reliability has been. Plus they all give Dr Boost ammunition to tell me how lame I am.

So lets say I decide to bring it home. What should I do with it? Swap in the manual trans I have in the garage and flip it for a tidy profit? J swap sleeper? H swap with a big turbo? Replace the auto and buy the biggest body kit I can find? Mad Stance? Extra Vtaks? El Civicamino? 2018 Challenge build (2017 is out because all vacation is allocated to Chump)? Park it next to the garage and turn it into feral cat housing?

I don't need a daily driver (got one). I don't need a track day car (got one) I don't need a beater spare car (got a couple). I really don't need the car. But I kinda want it. WWGRMD?

*not actual car shown

Flip it and buy a better lawn mower.

J series big turbo with a big wing and a fart can?

5 speed mini-me with a CXRacing turbo kit (their increase in quality has been shocking) and spend the rest on tires, suspension, and making it nice. The ultimate affordable daily.

F swap and boost? I'm thinking of Foofy the boosted Accord.

LS swap in the back.

Fix it, sell it, do something with your other cars with the time left over.

Stefan wrote: Fix it, sell it, do something with your other cars with the time left over.

Or fix it, sell it for profit and surprise the family with a vacation? It'll score brownie points for future purchases!

-Rob

4 door roasted automatic civic that a college kid owned in PA. Where is the profit in that?

rob_lewis wrote:

Stefan wrote: Fix it, sell it, do something with your other cars with the time left over.

Or fix it, sell it for profit and surprise the family with a vacation? It'll score brownie points for future purchases! -Rob

This man is wise...listen to this man.

I don't see this car turning out to be a huge profit, but i'm sure you could make $500 or so on it. That all depends on how much the car has been destroyed by said "college kid".

Pass.

Semi related, I passed on an '02 auto coupe needing some work for scrap value about 2 years ago. Auto meant no fun, body condition meant not flip material.

To me, the EK sedans are the most boring of boringest civics. Especially in automatic guise. However, I've always that that it would be fun to swap in H22+boost and just go ham on it. You already have several Hondas though, not sure it's worth sacrifice working on those for this.

Is it cheap enough you're guaranteed to profit if you just swap in an un-roasted trans & sell it? If so, I'd do that & take the family on a nice trip... during which you try not to buy any more Hondas

LuxInterior wrote: Is it cheap enough you're guaranteed to profit if you just swap in an un-roasted trans & sell it? If so, I'd do that & take the family on a nice trip... during which you try to buy a more interesting Honda

Fixed that for ya' .

BoxheadTim wrote:

LuxInterior wrote: Is it cheap enough you're guaranteed to profit if you just swap in an un-roasted trans & sell it? If so, I'd do that & take the family on a nice trip... during which you try to buy a more interesting Honda

Fixed that for ya' .

Ooops! I must have slipped on banana peel

Oh you guys.....

So either replace the auto while doing a LS Frankie turbo swap and drag race race it (4dr beige sleeper), or get a new auto and boost the d series in there. D series makes great power for a Honda. Puts to shame the B.

Fix and flip, apply money to more fun garage things.