Comments on: The beginning of the end – 1977 Honda Accord Hatchback http://rustybuttrusty.com/2010/02/05/the-beginning-of-the-end-1977-honda-accord-hatchback/ Budget Fun With Unusual Classic Cars Wed, 23 May 2012 05:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: kenny http://rustybuttrusty.com/2010/02/05/the-beginning-of-the-end-1977-honda-accord-hatchback/#comment-308 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:49:55 +0000 http://rustybuttrusty.com/?p=766#comment-308 I had a 79 Sedan, in light cream color. It had the “Honda”Matic”. It was my 1st car the last 2 years of high school until 1992.

The car was smooth an had a very nice interior, especially for that time period. Lots of cubby’s, thought full touches like a coin tray on the left hand dash. The instruments were large and clear.

Handling was adequate and it had some pep for sure, even though I had to shift the 1st 2 gears and the rest was automatic.

Down side was the fabric was weak on the seats. The driver’s seat eventually fell back easily as I sat in it. The driver’s door would fly open at times around corners.

These model Honda’s are not the best of the breed in terms on reliability either. I over heated 2 times in 3 years of owning it requiring complete rebuilds both time of over a grand a pop.
It ate master cylinders for lunch and I had to rebuild the tranny as well.

This is with under 100k miles.

]]> By: Roger http://rustybuttrusty.com/2010/02/05/the-beginning-of-the-end-1977-honda-accord-hatchback/#comment-282 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:58:56 +0000 http://rustybuttrusty.com/?p=766#comment-282 My parents had a brand-new 1979 sedan, silver. I thought they were a neat car as a kid, and certainly heads-and-shoulders above the kinds of machines we had owned to that point…I think a brown ’77 Omni was traded in on it.

My friend Jim has a lightly restored/nice driver ’76 Celica he’s just finishing up that I think will almost fall into your price range. Again, not a car you see at all any longer.

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