Charly[horse];1070550 said:
Wow! Does it have an engine in it yet? What more do you have to do it? Is it all OEM ITR parts?
yes, she is all ITR
98 halfcut was used to repair the front and then stitch welded for a stronger rigidity over the whole chassis...
engine also from a 98 ITR and yes its installed but hasn't been cranked due to a bad fuel tank...
the beginnng/intro of the thread
Excuse the amount of pictures, but I have this build going on in another website and just decided to share it here as well, and feel free to comment good and bad....enjoy!
Money is short, times are hard, but this is my dream car dammit!!!
So even if this just might be my last build, it must take place, and what better place to share the progress than here!!!
Oh, and thanks Ryan, Memo, Guy, Dom, my body man Jesus and my brother Mike, without you boys this project would still be in the backburner, and Dom, I'm glad she went to a good home!
First off, a little backround about the person behind the car.
My name is Nicholas Floria, aka Nick, aka tenedor sports, aka fork sports, and if you are reading this then I'm pretty we share an addicton for these vehicles. I've been into this for awhile, so let me share with you my automotive history/timeline.
My love for the brand started when I first sat in a brand new ef sir hatchback in 91, my mother had taken her 87 mazda 323 hatch to the dealer, and the dealer had just bought the honda franchise and began putting them on the show room floor. What an awesome memory, anyway we could have never afforded one back then so my love the H badge was put on hold...
First off, my 1991 hyundai excell, a hand me down from my brother, sorry no pics but coming from humble beginnings in a third world country (Panama born and raised and proud of it), this was not too shabby, it was black, slammed on 15 inch momo evolution wheels, which I might add, these wheels were the shizzz back then, before digital cameras and the internet phenomena had caught on.
not actual car but ust to give the idea...
Second car my Mitsubishi Lancer gl, my lust for white cars had caught on and I persuaded my mother to purchase this car in this color. This car lived a very short life.
imagine this car in white, on 17" momo ferrari II lol
these were sooo heavy, lol!
that lancer ended up getting totaled, not by me, although there had been many close calls, comes with being young and dumb...
next car: the elantra, I couldn't afford much then, and this was to be a car bought by me, mom had bought that lancer bran new and when it got totaled Panamenian insurance didn't want to cover it. we needed transportation, and this was it.
you know, for being a cheap car, it was by far the quickest, with its DOHC configured beta engine, it was a hoot to drive, remember both of the previous cars were 1.3 carb engines making hardly any hp.
I decided I needed to do something with my life so I came to see my brother stateside, actually it was more like my mother kicked me out for acting a fool, but what teen doesn't?? lmao!
my first car here
boy I loved this, wish I would have known then what I know now, I sold this car due to a blown headgasket and slushbox trans, I didn't know how to fix any of this then... I want another one!!!
after the toyota was gone, I didn't have much money and looking around the local news paper for weeks I found nothing.
My brother is not one to get excited, but he knew I wanted a honda, so we hopped in the car and showed me something similar to this
needless to say I bought it, when I sat in this car that feeling I had as a kid when I first sat in that brand new 91 ef hatch came back and I knew I was through!!!
damn, I realized I am probably boring you guys with all this history crap, let me move on at a quicker pace before my daughter wakes up lol!
after that my first ej1
looked very similar to this...
then my first eg hatch!
I ended up trading for this:
later on this happened...
moved on
slowly had started silently working on my next hatch
mr2 was also mine back then until my brother finally came to his senses and wanted it back!
people dont know this but this car never had equips...
I wanted a set my brother didnt... but this is the og pic
with the aw11 out of the way and my da close to being sold, I was still working on the eg when I ran into an original owner eg sedan, I always wanted one soooo
if i find another white one, im getting it!!!
around this time frame I was also talking to this guy from alabama about an ITR shell for sale... selma alabama approx. three years ago
the shell had been involved in some kind of front end collision but the everything else of the car was intact, I had more pics of this trip but I cant find them..
