Neat old Hondas on the Bay

91 Si < 89 Si

mad_machine wrote: I always thought it was a shame that Honda killed the prelude. They were such pretty cars. I know their owners loved them and were very loyal

Not that you couldn't see it coming though, I mean it was in the same market share as the civic si and rsx.

digdug18 wrote:

mad_machine wrote: I always thought it was a shame that Honda killed the prelude. They were such pretty cars. I know their owners loved them and were very loyal

Not that you couldn't see it coming though, I mean it was in the same market share as the civic si and rsx.

DD, you forgot to mention the Integra and Accord coupe, too. The Prelude was doomed by market saturation of similar cars made by the same company.

FlightService wrote: I predict bidding will end around $8K and will not meet reserve

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Hmm, didn't go much higher than it was when I said it was priced too high...

Taiden wrote:

bravenrace wrote: In reply to Taiden: Yes. The collector car world has yet to accept Japanese cars as legitimate collector vehicles, with a very few exceptions, and as of right now, the CRX isn't one of them.

By "the collector car world" I assume you mean "the guys who buy E36 M3 from Barrett-Jackson" Anyone who collects cars is a car collector and they are part of the true car collector world. I pet there are dozens of japanese car collectors who would pay $11,000 for that example of a CRX Si

Then why didn't it sell for that?

Haha, I was going to say, I was WAY OFF.

My estimate came from the $5500 bit with 3 or so days left.

Yeah. I was surprized the prelude went for as much as it did.

Had the CRX been better presented it would have gotten more bids.

I think its neat that the NSX and Prelude are only 8 years apart, but look like they are from different worlds.

Joey

What do I win? I'm guessing there was a fair amount of shilling going on to get the price that high. No matter how clean, a 20 year old 90hp Honda with a maaco respray is not a $10,000 car, even if you're a california honda geek who obviously has more money than brainpower.

poopshovel wrote: What do I win? I'm guessing there was a fair amount of shilling going on to get the price that high. No matter how clean, a 20 year old 90hp Honda with a maaco respray is not a $10,000 car, even if you're a california honda geek who obviously has more money than brainpower.

What do you win? YOU??? Sheez.

Lets not disparage car collectors as there are many of them in our midst. Most I've met are car lovers who aren't into the hobby to make money, but rather because they really love cars. If they make a bit of coin on a car.....more power to them.

One day a super super clean and totally stock CRX Si may bring $50K or more, who knows. The problem with a car like that brining serious money is they made so many of them. Cars rise in value if they are truly rare either because of low production runs, or through time. A CRX Si is not rare enough to be very valuable yet. This is also one of the reasons an NSX isn't that valuable. There are too many on the market at any given time.

This is the same reason a 65 GTO is back to being a $25-$35K car. They made a ton of them. One day a CRX may reach that level.......maybe.

I'm certainly not disparaging car collectors, and maybe in another 20 years a clean, low mile CRX will bring $20k or more, but not today, and I can stick a dollar a day in a savings account and make 10 grand over the next 20 years, without having to pay insurance and do maintenance on something that does nothing but take up space in the garage.

And fwiw, I'm about as big of a honda fanboi as they come.

YMMV.