Boredom on wheels - '85 Civic

[Faust]

Anyone who knows me knows I love loser cars. There’s a lot of things that can make a car a loser, though. We know that Pintos explode, and Vegas melt down, Citations fall apart and anything that’s a mid-to-late-70s Ford can slip a gear and run you over in your own driveway. However, there’s more to loserness than just that. For me, a lot of loserness just comes from being no fun. I am someone who likes to drive, and likes to drive cars that are interesting. I have no love of “Soulless personal transport modules” that blandly do little more than move you from point to point.

For that reason, the mid-80s Honda Civics have always been losers to me. They had lots of ugly black plastic, and were these revvy, sputtery little econoboxes that even made Citations look stylish. Thus, when I had a chance to get one, I knew I had to have it for my loser car museum. While it might be mechanically sound, it’s still one of those cars that I hope we remember so we never go back to anything that bland again.

Check out my build of the Tamiya ’85 Civic below, and tell me what you think.

https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/model-kits/cars/tamiya-1-24-1984-honda-civic/

 

 

[StevenGuthmiller]

You're right, they were boring.

But then again, what wasn't in 1985!

Almost everything on the road had all of the character of a Corn Flakes box!

I had a 1984 Honda Prelude when I was newly married.

Still not exactly "sexy" but it was a fantastic little car, and about as sporty as you were going to get back then.

 

 

Steve

 

 

 

[peekay]

Nice work Adam, I like it! While I wouldn't build a model of this sort of car, I love it when someone else does.

And personally I don't think it's all that boring - it's good and functional 80s industrial design.

And the Prelude was definitely one of the better looking cars of the era. If I hadn't had children I would have bought one myself

[shoopdog]

Well done Adam, turned out quite nice. 

[Faust]

Thanks guys!

I agree the Civic was a functionally excellent vehicle, but for me, the little coal-bumpered econobeater was just not the way to go. My dad had a '76 Torino (Until 1991) and my mom bought an '85 Grand Marquis in the spring of '85, so I was use to big, rear-drive V8s with huge bumpers, chrome and all the good, old-school stuff. We had the Marquis until 2006, so anyone daring to say that American cars couldn't compete on reliability aren't entirely right. 

The Preludes are much better, as are the CRXs. At least they have some style; the Civic is just that; a cornflakes box with pretentions to being a rollerskate.