Originally posted by drummerwill
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Almost nobody bought a brand new Honda and then modified it, it just wasn't done.
All the people that are now tuners, back then would have been hot rodders. We were all about bigger carbs, dual exhaust, open air filter covers, It was all DOHC, because it was all V8s.
The import culture was small and very clique oriented. Even more so than today. Mostly older BMW 2002s and small European cars. The first modified Honda I ever saw up close was a 73 Civic, and all the performance parts had been made or modified by my friend and her bf (who had a WALL of plaques from Porsche and Mercedes for his excellence in something to do with those cars and their mechanical issues). It had a header that came out of the front of the car and wrapped back under it somehow, I wish I had a picture. That tiny little car with it's 1300 cc was making 100 whp N/A and was a marvelous thing to see at the local SCCA races.
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