Hive mind: What should I do with my Acura?

Do you recall my purchase last Autumn of a bone-stock, one-owner, low miles, 1990 Acura Integra LS sedan? If you don't, read this thread.

My relationship with the car is... unusual. I neither love it nor hate it. I drive it every so often to keep the juices flowing, and it's while interesting to drive as a sort of throwback machine, I just don't really get much joy from it besides that.

Now it's a year later, so new plates are just about due. I honestly don't know if I ought to keep it or sell it.

On one hand, it costs me just about nothing to keep. Under $100/year for plates, and about $120/year for basic insurance. (The policy costs way more than that, but taking the Acura off my insurance would lose the multi-car discount, so I would only save $10/month by selling it.)

I paid $2500, and spend another $500 getting it home from Seattle. If I could get my $3k back, it would be an intriguing thought. Problem is, there isn't much market for (relatively) high-priced, bone-stock, old Acura sedans. Honda fanbois would find other Hondas in the $3k range much more interesting.

I'm really at a crossroads on this one. It's like I don't really care if I keep it, nor do I care if I sell it. I'll probably do my usual inertia thing and just do nothing.

Thoughts/opinions/ideas highly solicited.

You should have drove it to Michigan and sold it while there. The rust-free-ness in rusty Michigan could have maybe brought your asking price.

Auction it on bring a trailer, see if you can have them agree to a $3750 reserve and watch it go.

I sold a car through them, people will pay a premium when buying there. My whole transaction went extremely smooth and my car had no reserve.

In reply to Slippery:

Good call. Yes, you need a sales method with National reach to find the right buyer. Somewhere out there, someone wants one and can't find one.

Yeah, or hang onto it for 10-20 more years and hope that early hondas are the next air cooled porsche?

As a cheap to keep car, does it serve a use as a backup or reserve vehicle? That alone could make it worth while.

Otherwise, if it serves you no purpose and it doesn't bring you joy, I'd say sell it.

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Slippery wrote: Auction it on bring a trailer, see if you can have them agree to a $3750 reserve and watch it go. I sold a car through them, people will pay a premium when buying there. My whole transaction went extremely smooth and my car had no reserve.

But for the love of god, make sure the A/C works! Those BaT commentors will never shut up if it's inop.

Donate it to me so I can fulfill my dream of building a V-6 mid-engined EF Civic si.

Sell it and use the proceeds to make one lease payment on a new NSX? :)

How many miles does it have on it?

In reply to spitfirebill:

Link above says 114k near exactly 1 year ago and barely driven since.

In reply to bravenrace:

It won't help with V6 or EF civic si content.

JohnRW1621 wrote: In reply to spitfirebill: Link above says 114k near exactly 1 year ago and barely driven since.

I read it, just didn't read it that way.

It's above 116k and below 117k, iirc.