History on the car is short – the previous owner had the car for a few years and used it for his courier business – he also had an 89 model Civic that had A/C and a few other extras that he used during that time as well.
After he got a new Ford Escape, he let the Hondas sit for a year or two (looks to be more likely three or four), occasionally starting them and moving them around. He gave the other Honda to a sister-in-law who needed one for her son and had to get rid of this one because the city started harassing him.
When I went to look at it, he had already had it running earlier in the day, but we still had to jump start it since the battery had been dead for “a long time” and was completely dead. It actually ran fairly well, but obviously needed some help. It also needed air in two tires to move it at all and all four to go any distance.
The interior was kinda what one would expect for a courier car, papers, receipts, invoices, bank statements, food wrappers, straws, and all sorts of mean nasty, ugly stuff were tucked in any place they could find in order to avoid being sucked out the window since the lack of A/C meant that the windows were open all of the time. There were also the usual stains and spilled goo covering the dash, seats, and floor. The outside had a few years of dried up leaves and dirt accumulated anywhere the wind wouldn’t blow them away, with a bit of mold on various body panels. There were suprisingly few dents and very little visible rust, so it had that going for it, which was nice. The engine compartment didn’t look too bad – a few oil leaks, corrosion around the battery and the usual grunginess – looks like we have a LeMons racer…
…and then do it again.
