Here Are The Cars You Regret Selling

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‘78 Civic with the Hondamatic.

Like this, but brown. With a vinyl top, I don’t even know what that was about.

For its power it was surprisingly quick. With the Hondamatic’s torque converter helping it could really pick up its skirts and hustle with traffic, and of course I generally just treated it like an automatic – I put it in High and left it there. It was essentially a one-speed car and the TC made it work.

Shockingly thrifty. Even with a bad leak through the fuel pump diaphragm – it was blowing liquid gas out through the vent hole onto the exhaust manifold I was young and very dumb at the time – it was getting 30mpg even at 12 years old, Hondamatic tranny and dumbass 22 year old driver.

It parked anywhere. Manual steering but so what, the whole car only weighed about 16oo pounds, if you can’t steer that you don’t have arms. No guessing where the corners are, you can feel them from the driver’s seat. Tucks into virtually any spot.

I’d have it back but I gave it – GAVE IT – to my neighbor’s kid.