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the good dr zero
01/04/09

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My brother's first car was a similar gen Accord. Dad forced him to buy it when he hooned off and got himself booked after an argument in the family car. I learned to drive a manual in his car, and it did him fine until he decided to get himself T-boned by a prick in a BMW.
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MushyHeirloom
01/03/09

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Of note: The lettering doesn't seem to have changed at all from this generation through about 1994.
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MushyHeirloom
01/02/09

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"it was startling how many readers had never seen a first-gen Accord on the street"

It doesn't get any rustier than New Hampshire, and I've seen exactly one in my lifetime. (It's on DOTSBE.) I don't remember ever seeing a second-gen, though I might have as a child. Hell, even the third-gen with the pop-up headlights is about as common as unicorn shit around here.
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☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig.
01/02/09

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My neighbor used to have a 1986 Accord hatchback. I loved that car. It was quiet, had a 5-speed, rode and handled perfectly, and felt solid as all get-out.

Sadly, the Accord went from being a slightly-pricey daily driver to an overpriced Japanese Luxo-boat. No hatchback or wagon these days, either.

Oh well, those were the good-old-days of the Accord, IMHO.
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Six Flags Over Tomsk
01/02/09

@☠Grяrяrяrяrяrяrя. Another year older and deeper in debt.: Hear hear!

A buddy of mine had one of these in high school, a diarrhea red-brown 5-speed, and had a stereo system installed that was probably worth as much as the car.
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junkman
01/02/09

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Finally, a DOTS car that I'm not lusting after. At least it's a hatchback, so there is some redeeming value.
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Novaload
01/02/09

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Obviously the vandal didn't know his ass from his nose. Just "ASS"? Not A-hole? That seems a very British sort of etching versus the standard US ones--often those are just a long, expressive abstract line.

But I digress. That thing has a very Chevette/Firearrow US type hatch-look about it.
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Landau_Calrissian loves our President Camacho.
01/02/09

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I just finished a long association with an '89 Civic, and I don't think the design changed that substantially from this one. Except for abysmal wiring and the occasional flaming distributor (went through 3 in 4 years), the little beast was unkillable.
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MushyHeirloom
01/02/09

@Landau_Calrissian: Unkillable aside from abysmal wiring? You sure it wasn't a Volvo?
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Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
01/02/09

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Oddly enough, I see one of these (in brown) regularly. I think it's a summer-only driver, though, which would explain why it's lasted this long up here.

Actually, it's probably the oldest Japanese car I've ever seen more than once.
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five_on_ninetyeight
01/02/09

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Sorry, but this must be the least unusual DOTS thus far.
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TwilightSentinel
01/02/09

@five_on_ninetyeight:

I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to ask you to apologize to Mr. Accord for that comment. You go over there and tell him you didn't mean it, that he was one of the most important cars of his day, and that it's too bad that soon there will be none on the road any longer.
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MushyHeirloom
01/02/09

@TwilightSentinel: What you said.

Besides, we've had a K-car and an '80s Mustang on here, and those are still monthly sightings up here in New Hamster.
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Pete Gaines
01/02/09

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I love the 2nd-gen Accords. My parents traded in their '81 LX sedan for an '85 LX hatchback in November 1984. The '85 ended up being my first car when I turned 16.

I've been sort of passively on the lookout for a mint one of these for years; I'd snap it up in a second, especially if I could find a gray '85 hatch.
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danio3834
01/02/09

@Pete Gaines: Woah there Pete, save some wagons/hatches for the rest of us.
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poxpopulus
01/02/09

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With the luxury of 25 years of hindsight, it can be argued that its was this modest little car that essentially commenced the toppling of the US car industry.
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TurboWeasel
01/02/09

@poxpopulus:

Nah, I'd say it was more the Civic and the Corolla that started it all. They were both extremely durable little machines in an era when owners of American cars were excited to get to 100K.

The Accord and Camry were more like the nails in the coffin. Let's hope we rise from the dead. If we do, watch for the following models:

Pontiac Vampire - for the nightclub set
Chrysler Mummy - a minivan
Dodge Skeleton - a stripped down performance machine
Ford Zombie - for overworked commuters
Mercury Corpse - wait, what?
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MushyHeirloom
01/02/09

@TurboWeasel: Hey, my grandfather drives a Mercury Corpse!
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
01/02/09

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Ahh, the dreaded "seat belt loop hanging outside the door." I remember driver's ed, being regaled with stories about the possibility of the belt snagging on another car or stationary obsctruction, twisting the car into a burning wreck of fail.
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MushyHeirloom
01/02/09

@The Name's Ash78, Housewares: Both the World Cars we've owned have had the seat belt repeatedly slammed in the door. The '95 Contour had its passenger-side stop-button (for the buckle itself) broken off, so you had to chase the buckle down beside the seat.
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UDMan
01/02/09

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I had the pleasure of driving a first generation Accord LX and was quite impressed at that time. Obviously not impressed enough to purchase one, but impressed nonetheless. I always thought Honda stumbled on the second generation Accord, because I felt it wasn't interesting enough, and the handling of the design was just bland. The third generation (with the pop-up headlamps) was really the one that I thought placed Honda in the top tier automakers.
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