I was on honda-tech recently and I came across a thread labeled "you know you own an EF when..."
You were supposed to put in the unique experiences involving owning an EF (88-91 civic).
I used to own one...and I knew me and my friends always had fun in the car...but I never realized how much fun we had in the car until I typed it out. This is actually just stuff I could remember from the top of my head.
I'm sure 11secsomeday will chime in with stuff he remembers.
Basically, this is just a copy and paste of my post from the thread in Honda-tech.
hahah
When you start up your car in the dead of winter and instantly start to drive in 1st at 7k RPMs till the car warms up.
Or because your engine burns so much oil (1 qt every 100 miles on the highway) that when cops chase you, you can drop a gear and disappear into a fog.
Or when a D16Z6 swap makes your car pretty damn quick.
Or when you pull up next to girls after rallying the car. It's caked in mud so you roll down the window to spit game anyway. It's their fault. They looked over.
When you push your friend's car bumper to bumper on the highway 45 miles from where it broke down. And your car is only operating on 3 cylinders. But you can still go 70mph.
When you go to a really rich suburb in Michigan (at your friend's lake house) to go out on your friend's dad's Yacht. Then you hook up a leaf blower into the intake, bungee the hood down and drive down the private roadways of some EXPENSIVE ass real estate. Then you autocross/road race in his driveway when his parents aren't home.
When you assume that the filler nozzle was from a lawn mower because that's how it looks on EFs. After weeks of agonizing in the cold to drip gas into the tank, you find out that there was a spoon in your gas filler nozzle. Then you tape the spoon to the front bumper. Wherever you go, people ask about it, and you reply only with "Spoon Sports".
When you paint your "PRIME" wheels flat black and call them "authentic spoon replicas".
When your friend falls off the back of it at 15mph and then tries to get up and pretend like nothing happened.
When you knock over your own street sign while being the drift king in your neighborhood in the snow.
When you knock over someone's mailbox while being the drift king in someone else's neighborhood in the snow.
When your friend tells you to hit the hay bale in the middle of the road at 50mph. Then your radiator cracks and you find out it was sod....not hay.
When you tap bumpers with your friend's beater at stoplights and then pretend to get into a fight over it.
When you come up to every stop light with the brakes slammed on and the tires screaming and up in smoke with the AOOOGAH horn on so as to scare the person who is allready waiting at the stop light.
When you slam into your friend's car at 10mph and NOTHING HAPPENS TO YOUR CAR!!
After all this stuff happening, the car still always looked great.
These are all true stories. I can swear to you...err...except for the running from cops thing.
I miss my EF. And being 18-19.
You guys have any interesting or funny stories?
You were supposed to put in the unique experiences involving owning an EF (88-91 civic).
I used to own one...and I knew me and my friends always had fun in the car...but I never realized how much fun we had in the car until I typed it out. This is actually just stuff I could remember from the top of my head.
I'm sure 11secsomeday will chime in with stuff he remembers.
Basically, this is just a copy and paste of my post from the thread in Honda-tech.
hahah
When you start up your car in the dead of winter and instantly start to drive in 1st at 7k RPMs till the car warms up.
Or because your engine burns so much oil (1 qt every 100 miles on the highway) that when cops chase you, you can drop a gear and disappear into a fog.
Or when a D16Z6 swap makes your car pretty damn quick.
Or when you pull up next to girls after rallying the car. It's caked in mud so you roll down the window to spit game anyway. It's their fault. They looked over.
When you push your friend's car bumper to bumper on the highway 45 miles from where it broke down. And your car is only operating on 3 cylinders. But you can still go 70mph.
When you go to a really rich suburb in Michigan (at your friend's lake house) to go out on your friend's dad's Yacht. Then you hook up a leaf blower into the intake, bungee the hood down and drive down the private roadways of some EXPENSIVE ass real estate. Then you autocross/road race in his driveway when his parents aren't home.
When you assume that the filler nozzle was from a lawn mower because that's how it looks on EFs. After weeks of agonizing in the cold to drip gas into the tank, you find out that there was a spoon in your gas filler nozzle. Then you tape the spoon to the front bumper. Wherever you go, people ask about it, and you reply only with "Spoon Sports".
When you paint your "PRIME" wheels flat black and call them "authentic spoon replicas".
When your friend falls off the back of it at 15mph and then tries to get up and pretend like nothing happened.
When you knock over your own street sign while being the drift king in your neighborhood in the snow.
When you knock over someone's mailbox while being the drift king in someone else's neighborhood in the snow.
When your friend tells you to hit the hay bale in the middle of the road at 50mph. Then your radiator cracks and you find out it was sod....not hay.
When you tap bumpers with your friend's beater at stoplights and then pretend to get into a fight over it.
When you come up to every stop light with the brakes slammed on and the tires screaming and up in smoke with the AOOOGAH horn on so as to scare the person who is allready waiting at the stop light.
When you slam into your friend's car at 10mph and NOTHING HAPPENS TO YOUR CAR!!
After all this stuff happening, the car still always looked great.
These are all true stories. I can swear to you...err...except for the running from cops thing.
I miss my EF. And being 18-19.
You guys have any interesting or funny stories?
.....its wasn't shopping cart worthy but it was fun 
