I looked up the '75 Civic. In DC, I owned a duplex, and in the late '80s had tenants with one of those. Alas, I can't remember when I last saw one of them, but probably not since before I moved to Massachusetts in '99. I'm keeping my eyes peeled. I do have an '08 Civic (stick) which I love. It's got 151k on it, still runs like when I bou…
I looked up the '75 Civic. In DC, I owned a duplex, and in the late '80s had tenants with one of those. Alas, I can't remember when I last saw one of them, but probably not since before I moved to Massachusetts in '99. I'm keeping my eyes peeled.
I do have an '08 Civic (stick) which I love. It's got 151k on it, still runs like when I bought it with 35k, gets close to 40mpg on the road, and barring mishaps, I plan to keep it as long as I drive, and I'm doing everything I can to keep driving as long as I live.
Unfotunately, the 75-79 Civic was not "built to last," and the last one I saw was rusting away in the back yard of the neighborhood car nut here before his sons cleared things out after his "departure."
I'm surprised any of them weren't built to last. I had a '77 Corolla from '85-'93. (Bought it from one of the Iraq weapons inspectors!) I sold it at 161k. It hadn't been trouble free, but I suspect I could have gotten it well over 200 had I wanted to keep driving it. I replaced it with my only brand new car, a '93 Saturn SL2, which was good looking, handled very nicely, but had a lousy engine, and then another lousy engine, and was nickel and diming me after ~130k.
I looked up the '75 Civic. In DC, I owned a duplex, and in the late '80s had tenants with one of those. Alas, I can't remember when I last saw one of them, but probably not since before I moved to Massachusetts in '99. I'm keeping my eyes peeled.
I do have an '08 Civic (stick) which I love. It's got 151k on it, still runs like when I bought it with 35k, gets close to 40mpg on the road, and barring mishaps, I plan to keep it as long as I drive, and I'm doing everything I can to keep driving as long as I live.
Unfotunately, the 75-79 Civic was not "built to last," and the last one I saw was rusting away in the back yard of the neighborhood car nut here before his sons cleared things out after his "departure."
I'm surprised any of them weren't built to last. I had a '77 Corolla from '85-'93. (Bought it from one of the Iraq weapons inspectors!) I sold it at 161k. It hadn't been trouble free, but I suspect I could have gotten it well over 200 had I wanted to keep driving it. I replaced it with my only brand new car, a '93 Saturn SL2, which was good looking, handled very nicely, but had a lousy engine, and then another lousy engine, and was nickel and diming me after ~130k.