1983 Honda Accord review from North America

The car has never left me stranded. It has required some routine maintenance, like timing belts at 60k, one clutch, an alternator or two, etc.

Quite possibly the world's greatest car. I "inherited" the car from my parents who purchased the automobile new. In high school it was really fun and had lots of pick-up, and in college, it was always there for me even though I put almost no money into it. After college, I once hit a deer at 85 mph, spun 360, and ended up in a ditch. After a farmer yanked it out of the ditch, I drove it five hours back home. (My father-in-law calls it "the Deer Car")

The car has been rear-ended, plowed through a deer, survived me in both high school and college, and is now doing double duty by chugging me back and forth to work and making trips to the hardware store. However, as a new homeowner, I need a truck, but I just can't bear to give up that Honda. It's like turning my back on an old friend. I can't bear the thought of it in a junkyard, because it's still got another 150k miles to give.

Oh it's ugly, that's for sure, but the darn thing keeps ticking. It's got a few bumper stickers on it, a mangled front fender, and a headlight that is held in place by a bungee cord, no power steering, but make no mistake, this is quite possibly the world's finest automobile.

I wish they made a truck version.