I loved my '88 Accord LX sedan and I longed to own this car when it came out the following year...just never happened with a young family and all that comes with it. I always felt the styling of the 86-89 Accords to be so clean and timeless and I was a big fan of the pop-up headlights. I live in the Atlantic City area and on really cold days late in it's life I would sometimes experience a delay for them to open. I owned it for around fifteen years and had racked up 215K miles before I sold it to one of my wife's co-workers for a "whopping" $500. At that point it had too many nagging issues that I didn't feel like dealing with and the most troublesome was a failed heater core as I didn't want to tackle the removal and installation of the dashboard. The engine still purred like a kitten when I sold it and it wasn't easy seeing it drive away.
All late 80s early 90s Honda Accord are the best Car..The Design The Start up Sound..The Ride..I'm from Malaysia..my uncle has 97 Accord Exi 2.0 ..he bought it Since New until now still Runs like New. :) btw Great Video Content Sir! #Honda4Life
my mom had one of these for a good 17 years. 150k before she sold it. immaculate but too bad the new owner tore up the seats within a month of owning. it was a DX with the optional passenger mirror and the honda blank radio plate since it didn't come with one.
That generation Honda Accord was really a great car. My 1987 carbureted Accord didn't even have 100 horsepower but the gearing and revs on that thing never made it feel like you were without enough power to get it to go when you needed to. And very decent mileage to boot. Incredibly well engineered. Ran it up to 220k miles and then a fuel leak caused it to burn to the ground on the side of the interstate. It's a hell of a thing watching powerlessly as your car burns up lol.
My dad had a the same exact version of one of these, but it was a dark blue color with beige leather interior. My uncle messed it all up when he got out of jail but it still ran! We sold it when we got my mom's 05 Highlander cuz we didn't have room. :( I grew up riding in it and I missing it! I wish I appreciated it more but I didn't know how to drive yet before we sold it...I believe my dad sold it for $500.
one of my best friends in high school had a FRESH black SE-i Accord 5 speed tan leather interior. lowering springs wheels Mugen exhaust amber fogs and a sub. Loved that car to death haha. Fun simple car
Without a doubt, this has to be my favorite Generation of the Honda Accord. The 03-08s are super nice, but nothing will be able to surpass the redness of those pop-up headlamps.
I love the writing of the lady on the check she issued to the dealership when she bought the car 29 yars ago...I was 13 back then! Wow that looks awesome!!!!
The sticker on my new 1988, Florida purchased Accord LX with 5 speed was $13,650 I believe the 1989's were all fuel injected while my 1988 was still an electronically controlled carburetor. The cars both had 2 liter engines. $24,000 in 1989! In 1988, an E Class Mercedes cost $24K !
@@TysonHugie its a neat car, an Si version, got the side specific wheel covers, bought new at the first Honda dealership in Ontario Canada, now sitting on my parents property, fate unknown, hope someone will want to do something with it someday as it doesn't deserve to be simply crushed.
Was this car recently sold a couple months ago??? I could have sworn I saw this exact car at a gas station in Chandler, AZ. I stopped and talked to the owner while he was putting gas in it. He mentioned he just bought it and was about to drive it back home to California.
Yes. It sold on Bring a Trailer auction website earlier this year, and the buyer picked it up in Chandler and drove it home to California. Small world.
So nice! I just realized the 3rd Gen coupes didnt come with sunroofs! My dad had a new 1986 Accord LX with those door guards on them, too. His car came with most of the accessories for the 3rd Gen at the time preinstalled. Wow! $24k back in 1989! Thats Integra Type R sticker price! These cars only came in 2 colors if i remember correctly. How does the Bose system sound?
I don't really remember, it was a friend's car and this video is several years old! But was definitely a gem. The Legend Bose from 91-95 is probably similar and it's pretty good.
Never understood why Honda didn’t put moon roofs on this Gen coupe, even with the SEi. Our dealer sent them out to get aftermarket ones installed, cause people wanted them. Now you can get them on most models, except the very based.
I just purchased a 1986 Accord LXi hatchback with 11,000 original miles. It’s in unbelievable shape. Question.. I can feel every downshift. Gives a little jerk every time when slowing down. Nothing too alarming but just wanted to know if this was normal for these transmissions or should I take it in to get looked at?
That's amazing! Would love to see some photos or video of that car. I don't have a lot of experience with those Accords, other than this one, but I think the transmissions are known for being a little jerky. Might not hurt to have the fluid changed for good measure.
Yeah old Honda trans are jerky. At least you have the fuel injected model. The carb model would start up cold with high idle and you’d have to bump the throttle to get it off the choke otherwise get a good whiplash when shifting to reverse with the idle at 2k+.
@@boostedmaniac I have a carb Civic (D15B single carb with auto choke) and yes the rpms do shoot up to 2k or so when cold. I usually just leave it to warm up a bit, but then again I live in a tropical climate so after cold starting, it only takes 3 mins before the throttle blip disengages the choke. I only have it about a year now so I'm still learning... that said, I've been told that the fast idle speed can be lowered; do you know this to be so? I figure about 1200-1300 rpms when cold is sufficient for my climate
damieg82 not sure if it can be adjusted. I think it’s there to prevent it from dying on cold startup. Either way, just blip the throttle every time. If I remember correctly, on cold mornings to get the choke to engage, you’d floor it and then slowly release the throttle and then start it.
I had one of these my mother bought in 1991 then gave my wife in 2000 same color and all they made a darker grey as well lived that car had 230k when we gave it back to my mom then she sold it, still in great shape leather was a little cracked on rear seat at deck
@@TysonHugie Interesting thanks. Later SEs did however get moonroofs, if I recollect correctly and the standard leather and size did differentiate the market with a prelude. What I used to do is get the old top three car mags, from any era, at my library (even if digitized), to help me research these types of queries. I.e 1989 motortrend w/accord se-i. I would bet they wanted to differentiate it between the legend coupe which was about to be changed in two years. Beautiful car though. Thanks for the vid.
Mustafa Wali I just plugged that into an inflation calculator and it’s the equivalent of $49.947.55 in today’s money. If I’m not mistaken, that’s significantly more than what a fully loaded 2018 Accord would go for today.
You have a beatihul garage... I hope I will be able to have like yours when I get my own house in few years... I would like to have a tlest 4 cars...al manual gearboxes....!
By chance do you still have this 89 I'm asking because I had a 4 door 89 I was 2nd owner only 70000 miles 5 years ago it was stolen and wrecked. Would you be willing to let it this one go if you still have it. I am located in Tucson AZ
Correct. The Accord coupe didn't get a sunroof, on any trim level. Someone told me that was because Honda didn't want it to compete with the Prelude (every Prelude had a sunroof).
@@TysonHugie I thought sticker prices were set by the manufacturer and thus fairly universal. For instance, the MSRP sticker price for a new Accord in Kansas is identical to Manhattan, even though the dealer's price in Manhattan is likely much higher. According to AutoTrader, a 1990 Accord started at $12,000.
