Dude. The 05 accord has parts available, has for probably a year now. Get that thing into the dealer asap

it doesn’t look like it has a roll cage D:

I was able to pick up a w123 turbo diesel wagon for 1100 a few months ago, and I’ve been driving the hell out of it since. Deals are out there, you just gotta know where to look.

But can you do this in your Mercedes?

But will it off road? Five bucks says it has nowhere near the ground clearance of the old 124.

I was coming here to say the same thing. I recently had to charge a customer like $800 to cobble a new underdash harness for one of these things together; his had gotten eaten over the winter and I literally couldn’t find another in the country.

When I was writing mini service, our average dollar amount per customer pay ticket was $540. Compare that to every Honda dealer I’ve ever worked for, where that number was always somewhere just north of $150.

Nah, I always charge my clients .6 at the dealer; 1.2 would be wayyy excessive

My Amigo made it a full SIXTEEN years before blowing a rod through the block, so suck it!

Honestly this isn’t a bad thing to do to a zagato, as parts for the beta chassis are becoming terribly hard to find - needed a dash wiring harness for one a while back. Ended up having to fabricate the damn thing ourselves.

How tall is Doug? Holy shit

It’s a dealer accessory that gets wired into the third brake light circuit. It’s there wires and a little controller, big profits in the finance department.

I guess I’m more just disappointed. I work for a Honda shop, so I guess my expectation was the rest of the truck would disintegrate around the motor, but it turns out that doesn’t happen for all Japanese vehicles.

I owned one with 4wd, a stick, and the six. Blew a rod out of the block at 168k. One of my techs at the place I was working at the time had warned me it might happen; he was a former Isuzu tech who claimed to have done so many long blocks in those that he could do it in three hours.

I’ve been in thousands upon thousands of cars during my time as a dealership employee, and they all kind of blend together after a while, but I distinctly remember the first time I got in one of these. I had immediate, strong feelings of disgust, followed by “this is a thing? They sell these to people? People buy…

Fist 124 Spider. I got mine for $700 last fall and it’s been DD’ed ever since. Total pile of shit but it drives well, the heat works, and it is in surprisingly good shape mechanically. It’s the poor man’s Miata!

Was on a team that raced one at a local circle track for a few seasons. It was... Slow. High-ish center of gravity. I think the driver flipped it once.

The wheelwells are not even close to being the same geometric shape!! Boooo

Old BMW’s are not a money out! Had a buddy who drove an e30 to 300k and it was still quite reliable at the end. I have a 91 e30 and its barely more spendy than my old civic. The trick is to avoid the ones that became too technology-heavy.

We put the President in one of these? Don’t these drop out of the sky pretty frequently?