Tag Archives: Honda

The 88 Honda moves on.

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Almost precisely 25 years to the day after I bought it, the 88 Honda is being adopted by our dear assistant Dustin.

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He needed a cheap car, and this way I can still visit it from time to time.  (I’m feeling sort of emotional about the car that drove me virtually my entire adult life.)

Conveyed with the car: Three (3) chamois cloths of varying psychedelic colors; jumper cables; approximately 75¢ in change in the bottom of the glovebox (“rebate”).

Found in the car but not conveyed: One (1) bottle of “Nuprin,” exp. 07-93;

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One (1) pair robin’s egg blue prescription sunglasses, purchased in Taipei ca. 1984;

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And the requisite tape measure of the well-prepared ADAAG nerd.

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This weekend, I’ll shop for a car for the next 25 years.  Any recommendations?

Big Day for the 88 Honda

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I’ve previously posted about the car that has transported me around most of my adult life.

Camera
E-510
Focal Length
14mm
Aperture
f/3.5
Exposure
1/5s
ISO
400

 

I’ve previously posted about the car that has transported me around most of my adult life.   We hit a big milestone yesterday — just north of Colorado Springs in the pouring rain.  I’m enough of a nerd that I pulled off I-25 at the 99,998 mile mark and drove a couple of miles along this quiet road so I could pull over and get the above photo.

 

Camera
E-510
Focal Length
42mm
Aperture
f/5.6
Exposure
1/30s
ISO
400

 

Snow Driving

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This is what it looked like driving from Denver to Vail yesterday:

This is what it sounded like in my car:

You in the Subaru!  With the functional snow tires!  Kiss my DC-born, Virginia-raised, 20-mph-driving, 2d-gear-using, single-lane-occupying, 88-Honda-encased ass!   And an even less desirable activity for you, the guy in the Hummer who came behind me and flashed his high beams.

By the time I got to Vail Pass, I was a one-woman traffic jam, my faithful Honda trailing a long line of impatient Subarus, the interior of the car a constant stream of inspiring epithets.

All worth it for a gorgeous day of skiing followed by an awesome dinner with good friends!