The Honda Civic was a generation's '32 Ford.
. Although maybe that's why you begged your mom to replace her Oldsmobile Cutlass with a white Civic Si hatch in 1991. Which she probably didn't. Sensible mom bought an automatic DX sedan.
So did hundreds of thousands of Moms and Dads and even Grandmas who didn't care one whit about steely-eyed Brazilians or double-wishbone suspensions and thought VTEC was that company that made cordless phones. Consumers on the whole wanted efficiency, reliability, and solid resale. Fun to drive? Great icing, but it was Honda's basic cake recipe that packed showrooms.
So, like Henry Ford's mass-produced stroke of genius, the Civic became ubiquitous, both new on the street and in the used car classifieds of your local newspaper. You got good grades, Dad perhaps bought an Explorer, and you took the family autobox DX to college. Maybe you had a friend with a shop. Maybe you spent some of your summer job money on an exhaust the size of a potato cannon. Maybe you bought a bare-bones CX and learned how to fiddle with tire pressures at autocross.
Early on, the old school hot-rodders didn't get it. Front-wheel-drive equals fail-wheel-drive. Scoffing at the kids with the fart can exhausts and forgetting the time when they, too, hacked up their cars in questionable ways. It's what youwhen you're a kid. Half-baked modification is the key to learning by doing. Many a great artist started out drawing with crayons.
Gradually, decibel by decibel, the sound fades into the distance. Scratch the surface, and passion in the Honda community still runs deep and broad. But every golden age has its end. It's only as it fades that you realize. Little Honda Civic, we didn't know what we had.
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