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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
yeah - i take a radio with me.
this car is pretty funny. some other things it doesn't have that might surprise you:
- and you know that little switch on the door jamb that turns the interior light on & off? it's only got one - on the driver's side. the passenger side has a rubber blank in the hole where the switch should be.
as far as i can tell, the ONLY option that was ordered on this car was the rubber trim along the side to prevent dings.
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Holy guacamole -- how much would a plunger and a wire cost to buy and assemble so the passenger has light??? I've never heard of such cost-cutting. Not to mention, it has to weigh like a few grams. Do you know where your car was assembled -- was it Korea or North America? This is all new to me. I think the car market in the 'States is more competetive and offers lots of standard features in base models, especially anything GM slaps it's logo on. They had ABS standard on all vehicles until a few years ago. Freaks you out when you rent a car and expect it and it's not there.
I fondly recall my stripped-down Civic. I was surprised a new '96 DX Coupe didn't have power steering or A/C -- but it was affordable and new. It got me around the college campus, to the volunteer fire station pretty quickly, and got incredible gas mileage in any condition (close to 40 most of the time). When I moved to KC I had to have A/C installed -- since gets up to 100F some days in August, with high humidity -- I was soaked by the time I got to work. The power steering was fine by me. It just took a LOT of effort to parallel park, but out on the twisties, it was awesome - you could feel everything the car and road were doing together and precisely control cornering. It really handled despite having only one sway bar and around 100-hp. It's too bad someone rear-ended me and nearly totalled it. The insurance co. decided to fix it and the repair shop forgot to put a strut back into place. Still handled great, but it was never the same again. The shop that repaired it was terrible. After I got a half-way decent job, I ended up with a new '99 Civic Si (SiR in Canada) which was, in my opinion, the best car I ever owned -- darnit I miss that car. For Honda fans out there you know what I'm talking about -- the B16A2 engine: 160hp from 1.6L, naturally aspirated with VTEC. Then, the Evo bug bit me, so I sold it. The Evo was a reliability nightmare, but when it ran, it hauled the mail in any weather -- it just wasn't a good commuter car. It was too tempting to speed. Then came marriage. Buh-bye Evo, hello TL. I haven't gotten a ticket since the Evo.
I did get a ticket in Ft. Worth for accidentally turning left onto rightward one way street. No traffic. I realized my error quickly and turned around, but Mr. Motorcycle cop was there to nail the out-of-towner. Rudest cop I've ever met. It was a simple error. I had to go before a judge 30-days later, and plea "deferred adjudication", which meant if I didn't get a ticket for 90-days in Texas, the ticket would drop-off. I still had to pay for court costs. I was in the DFW area every 2-weeks anyway, but that meant I had to watch my speed. The friendliest officer was a Quebecois Provincial Officer. I was in a hurry to get to Montreal airport from somewhere out East in the country, and he politely let me go for going 140kph (yes I'm bad) out on a 4-lane highway. I think the limit was 100. (the Kansas driver's license probably would've wreaked havoc with the driving record database).
Woah have I gone off-topic. Anyways, sorry for "Story Hour", but maybe someone will find it entertaining...
RH77
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(they were optional on this car, and i guess the old lady who bought it didn't want one... another spring time project)
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