The Honda CRX Straman Is the Ultra-Rare CRX They Never Built
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This is the CRX SI Straman convertible, the drop top CRX that was never mass produced. Today I'm reviewing this CRX SI Straman, and I'll show you all the many quirks and features. I'm also going to get behind the wheel of this extremely rare CRX SI Straman and show you what it's like to drive.
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CHAPTERS:
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00:33 It Can Be Yours On CARS & BIDS!!!
01:14 CRX Overview
02:44 What/Who is Straman?
05:25 Convertible Conversion
07:20 Hatchback to a Trunk
08:19 Convertible Top Function
10:14 Convertible Top Resurgence
11:05 Trunk Space & Storage
11:50 Interior Quirks & Features
15:26 Exterior Quirks & Features
16:32 Driving Experience
20:35 Final Thoughts
21:03 DougScore
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Finally a video that takes a break from all the EV’s and High performance modern cars, thanks doug for remembering us. The few the weird the quirky
thats why i started to watch doug. otherwise i can watch supercar blondie...
Again, thanks doug! We will always be your people
You trying to say this masterpiece isn’t high performance?!?
Agreed, technology quirks are pretty boring, and EV's although loaded with quirks feel like appliances still. The old school cars have the best quirks and features.
@@gaveintothedarkness indeed!
It said "Honda" by the AC button because it was equiped with genuine Honda air conditioning. That was a dealer installed accessory, but was not an aftermarket air conditioning system, which were also available.
I was about to comment the same. I remember back then that for most, maybe all Hondas, A/C was a dealer installed option.
All Civics and Civic derivatives arrived at the dealership without AC or radios. In this time period Honda cars had no factory options. You picked a model and chose dealer installed accessories.
@@froggger83 that's a dream I would want to get the si engine with base everything else I remove the ac in my cars would be nice if it just didn't come with it along with a lot of other extra junk
@@AlexLopez-pk3ix not base everything else! The Si came with a rear sway bar & the transmission was geared shorter.
But, yeah, ditch the AC. Those cars were slow enough without AC!
@@Iowa599 I would also ditch the ps that's a small car it won't be needed as well as clear out the backseats and trunk like I have my rsx now
One of the modifications Straman made was to reinforce the windshield frame. He also used square steel tubes to reinforce the frame rails. The trunk lid was a before fiberglass item. It did not come from any other Honda.
That seat is also probably why you feel a lack of headroom. The original CRX seats had a very low seating position. I have an 87 lowered about 2". I'm about eye level with the door handles of a Camry in it (I am admittedly short though). The seats in my 87 HF originally came from a 1985 Straman.
The Straman also has Stage 3 weight reduction.
The prototype was made as a July 1984 Road and Track cover car. There were three ways to order this car - Bring your CRX to Straman in Costa Mesa; Order direct from Straman; or Order through your local Honda dealership. Despite advertisement stating there were 310 converted, production of these CRX's by the R. Straman Co was likely only around 135 or so - which is the highest top stamp number that has been reported by owners. If anybody out there has a CRX Spyder with a metal trunk lid, a few of us are curious to see it. The prototype R&T cover car had a metal trunk lid. Production CRX Spyders have a fiberglass lid.
Great info! 👏👏
This is accurate. There is a fair amount inaccurate info in this video. MSRP for the conversion from Straman was $5000. Those floor mats and the roll bar are NOT original to the car.
@@slimwhitman1301the roll bar welding was a little bit "DIY", and now I know why... Thanks!
@@deltajohnnymore likely man.
@@slimwhitman1301there is also a minor cost problem.
I see CRX and I click right away.
My buddy in high school had a 2nd Gen CRX with an engine swap and it felt like it was gonna come apart every time you hit the gas. Some of the most fun I ever had in a car.
this video isn't al about you, we really don't care
@@slowery43 do your parents know you snuck on their computer to post useless comments?
@@sunsetmiami_ LOL
@@slowery43 your fun at parties
@@sunsetmiami_well definitely.
I loved the styling of the CRX. Even the body cladding is tasteful, unlike a lot of GM cars. This one looks almost new, especially with the plastic rear window neither clouded nor yellowed. The roll bar uses your head to keep it from getting damaged.
Did 1993 Honda Beat Version Z have rollbars too??
Honda is my favorite car manufacturer. And my oh my, this CRX is just plain cool. I love when Doug reviews 80s, 90s and 2000s Hondas
I thought Doug was reviewing a 2023 cat.
Been trying to get him to review my near mint condition 1999 Prelude Type SH
I drive exclusively BMW's and I agree. Few cars can beat the 80s and 90s Honda feel, being light, nimble and with the right engine like a little race car. The seating position is also so low.
@@a.a.7348 True
@@andrewholder6707 I hope it's a manual too ✌️
Not only do you learn about a car's quirks and features, but also learning about automotive history, design and the reason behind them. Great video Doug!
Exactly! Didn't know that about targa roofs.
pretty much all of his videos
@@jannevaatainenwell Isuzu 117 doesnt even have Targa roofs either.
@@Sevan_UPwell definitely.😅
I had an 86 CRX HF in the exact same color as the one in Doug's photo at 1:45. I can assure you it did not have 77 horsepower. The HF engine only had around 60 horsepower. It was geared so high I never used fifth gear because it felt like it was lugging the engine. Even then, I still got in the high 40s for MPG.
I had the exact same car. Rated 57 MPG! People don't believe that's possible from 80s tech. But the reason is because it had absolutely zero power. Zero to 60 in the mid teens would not be acceptable today, or even safe.
@@JayCAlan I probably could have got over 50 MPG if I used fifth gear, but the engine was struggling on even a flat highway in fifth. 4th was already an overdrive gear and 5th was even more so. Gas was so cheap in the late 90s I used to put premium in it to see if it would help a little, but you just can't expect much from 60 HP. It was a breeze to find a parking spot though!
@@JayCAlanor perhaps like Impreza 1994.
My wife and I were standing in a Honda dealership on a Saturday afternoon looking at one of the first 1985 CRX Si when the person closing on it "walked" after a loud argument. Although there was a wait list and I wasn't on it, I offered to buy the car and my offer was accepted. It turned out to be quite a fun car, roomy and practical. I sometimes wished for the Straman convertible version but the sunroof was huge and one of the first I remember that opened externally. I sometimes longed for the more powerful 1600cc twin-cam engine and back seat from the European version. I replaced the tiny sealed beam headlights with larger and better 200mm rectangular E-code Cibie headlights, installed OEM front fog lights and a Hella rear fog light, a high mounted stop light from a Porsche 944 and a cruise control kit from Sears. The car's ground clearance was huge - perfect for winter ski trips and great fun on Colorado mountain roads. A wonderful car and only positive memories.
I see a 90’s car then i watch immediately
Plus i thought this crx belongs to stradman
But this is 80's car... 😄
@@JS-1983well yeah but lived most of its life in the 90’s
Yes
Finally a video that takes a break from all the EV’s and High performance modern cars, thanks doug for remembering us
Wow Doug!!! This is the first car that you've shown that i never heard of!!!. I had a '87 and a '91 CRX and never....NEVER imagined it convertible. Great stuff🙏🏾
We saw this get submitted and knew Doug HAD to do a review on it.
There were 3 trims for the CRX in 1985.
HF - the fuel efficient model. Carbureted.
DX - the base model. Carbureted.
Si - came in half-way through the model year and introduced PGM-FI.
HF in 1984 was actually a 1.3. The other two versions were 1.5
@@josephdonnelly3169 There were only 2 trims in 1984. The 1300 and the 1500. The DX and HF badge didn't come around until 1985 and half-way through 1985 we got the Si.
@@wun1gee I had a 1.5 in 1984. The other version was 1.3
What market are you in out of curiosity? Because naming schemes seem to depend on the market. The 84s in the US were 1300 and 1500 (same as the Civic) but in Japan and Europe they were the 1.3 and 1.5, and then the 1.5i which we got in the US as the Si. Then they got the 1.6i-16 with the DOHC ZC and I weep every time I remember we didn't get that... At least not in a CRX.
@@twinturboray Yeah the Netherlands got the European naming convention. You guys got the 1.5i, which was our Si. Your 1.3 was our 1300/HF and your 1.5 was our 1500/DX.
Did they call it the Civic CR-X in the Netherlands or the Ballade Sports CR-X? That's what they called it in Japan.
I loved the CRX. It's such a treat seeing one in the wild.
Yeah, they are cool little cars.
i drive semi see a ton of these out there honda made them 4 bangers last forever back then
@@frank3l88 where are your routes? West coast?
They are pretty rare now in the northeast. rusted out and thrown in a junkyard, or stashed away in garages as project cars out here.
@@volvo09 yeah tell me about it most of my working is bringing old cars from down south to the northeast
@@volvo09 Yeah they're pretty rare in the Pacific Northwest too. There is actually a guy that works in my building that has a white one. It's a little rough and could use some TLC, but I love seeing it.
I love that the way the convertible operates, even down to the relocation of the "dome light" is almost identical to how the Miata soft top works, the biggest thing I miss about my old Miata is being able to just throw back the top whenever I wanted, which I will have another one eventually, it's just something I think about all the time
The Honda CRZ STRAMAN imo is as heavy as Impreza.
This is the best Doug video in a long time. I hope it gets big views so he makes more of this type of car. I know he's said before that he has to go for the view count and I get it.
Anyways. That car looks amazing to own and drive. I have both 90s nostalgia of my first car combined with my love of my current convertible.
I had a 92 ford probe lx (0-60 in 8 sec stock with it's 4 speed transmission) and it had sideways door handles. Plus pop-up headlights. Plus automatic seat belts which I love. The aesthetic of the CRX interior is very similar too. In the era when I owned that car, it was very sporty compared to my friends' cars. This was a year when the mustang GT did 0-60 in 7 seconds.
My current daily car is a 2010 lexus is350c which I love. There is a ton of reasons why, but it's my first convertible. Top up is very private, top down removes all blind spots. I'd actually love to see Doug's take on it, but it wouldn't be a very good video for view counts because the car isn't in high demand or very interesting otherwise.
My buddy had a Probe GT back in the late 90s and I remember us thinking that car was so quick! And, it probably was for the time. We loved cruising in that car. Good times.
Way before I got my license to drive, I had a crush on the Honda CR-X, especially the '91 version which looked sleeker, I would have given anything to own one of these cars! Honda tried to bring it back as the CR-Z decades later, but it was a hybrid with not much power, and not very popular, but I liked its potential. Cool review, Doug!
Great review. We owned an CRX HF. The same year. I can recall early in my marriage we drove from Minnesota to Boston and back for less than $60 in fuel! Some fill ups we got over 60 MPG!! Thanks Doug!
Stramann is also known for doing several 60's Ferrari Daytona Spyders. As people in the 80's made lots of money buying 365 GT4 Daytona coupes, and having them converted. As there was a massive premium on the Ferrari Daytona Spyders. Partly because of Miami Vice.
This is the first time I've ever seen a Honda CRX convertible. It's Very cool. A girl in my High school had a purple Geo Metro convertible that looked just like this. Thank you.
Yes, Stramann and Sheehan did Daytona spyders..
Good to see some of the weird old cars again. Been seeing a lot of fast EVs a lot on this channel.
The first gen CRX has always been a favorite of mine for the reasons Doug describes, just a fun car to do what you want with and the convertible adds on to that.
Come on Doug when are we getting the tour of the new place. I think I saw an elevator with a 7000 pound limit. Are you bringing these cars through the elevator. Oh my gosh there’s so many questions.
👁 👁 🧐
We had an original 84 1.5 5 speed. The non SI cars had carbs, the SI moved you up to fuel injection and a sun roof (maybe from 86). I have never seen one of these, very cool.
I always thought the SI was the Mexican model.
@@bwofficial1776 qui
That white Ferrari looks incredibly beautiful as a convertible !
We believe Mike Tyson had one at some point with ostrich leather interior.
You need to do the CRZ Doug! I just got one and it's a fun one :) It's funny, I didn't realize that they kept a lot of things from the CRX
The lid on top of the dash was where they put the trip computer on the JDM cars. We never had that option here in the US so they put a storage bin there instead.
A crx was almost my first car. I bought an mx6 instead . Loved it
I love the two-tone!! Looks like a baby SL600!!
Despite owning a well used Carrera (cab.), my ‘87 CRX still remains one of my favourite cars (of many over the years), mostly because it was so usably … fun. And … CHEAP!! (petrol, parts, insurance… I only paid $500!). Thanks for reintroducing the memories. Cheers.
This was a fun video, I see it as a companion piece to the Geo Metro convertable! The overall shape/silhouette, bodydide moldings, reminds me of a 500SL of the same generation.
Summer 97, my neighbour across from us had a son who had a red 91 CRX!
Geo Metro was made from a Suzuki Swift which there was a sporty model of. Was a great car.
@@-jimmyjames From what I remember they didn't make Swift convertibles at least stateside and no Metro had that wonderful Swift GT 16V DOHC 1.3L 4 cylinder. Would be an amazing combination. I guess this kind of does that thing.
@@-jimmyjames Yes it was. I remember them.
@@BarberdanThat would be amazing, I'm sure someone will build a "phantom" what if like people did with muscle cars!
I love that @2:09, you can visibly watch the car lower when Doug rests his elbows on it 😂. I guess the car really is lightweight!
What a nice Surprise! Definitely would love to see you Doug review more 80s-90s Cars and especially current Skoda and Seat as well as Cupra Cars. Its such a shame they're not sold in the USA, but i guess they are in Mexico? Skoda, Seat and Cupra are such great Cars for their Price
If you ever get to Germany, whether around Frankfurt or Munich, I and lots of other Dealers will definitely hook you up with some as well as some of the weird Audi, Mercedes-Benz, BMWs but of course also the French Car Brands you seem to love the Quirks of so much
Prost & Cheers from Germany
Yeah I got this got this 2022 Sportline blue with a 20 inch rims gas version 150 hp. It looks sick and I’m sure if they saw Skoda in the United States they would sell these cars.
I’m half 🇺🇸 I used to live in San Diego so I know all the area where Doug drives and I still have family in San Diego & Los Angeles.
I live in Mexico and the Cupras always catch my eye. They are awesome looking cars
@@trevinormandy14520 At the end of the day they are all VAG cars. I work next door to a Cupra dealer so see them all the time. I would have been interested in a Formentor if it didn't have the same hideous touch controls Doug disliked so much in the Golf GTI. After much looking around I ended up replacing my Golf MK7 Wagon with a Golf MK7.5 Wagon.
That's awesome. My best buddy had a CRX back in the day and loved it but I never knew there was the missing-roof version!
My first car was a 1984 CRX. I bought it new in Orlando FL. It was the first CRX in Orlando, and the Honda salesman had no idea what it was when I went in to ask about it.
Thanks Doug I love when you do videos on cars like this. No one does it like you!
Thanks for reviewing the wonderfully novel stuff like this, so such things don't fade into obscurity. It's great to see them documented on your channel.
We like finding oddballs for Doug.
This is an absolutely wild and awesome conversion! Crazy to think this was actually kind of mass produced for what it is
The 1985 CRX STRAMAN for me is as heavy as even the Subaru.
I have a 1991 Honda CRX! I actually spam commented CRX in your videos hoping this day would come!!! Great job DOUG!!
Back in the 80’s before the ‘net, we read Road&Track magazine for reviews, and for those that can recall, there was a glossary towards the back that provided a grand list of all cars performance numbers with bold face font designated the best (or worst) in each given category. If I recall correctly, there was even a “0-30” acceleration and I believe the CRX had the distinction of being the first ever leader in MPG and 0-30!
I have a 91 SI jdm sohc vtec swapped. Xenocron ecu, 130 hp now. Plus a japanese tran with LsD. Great car. Will get a refresh with boost soon enough. Used to buy around 500-2k. Now these things have been selling for original MSRP at times. Nuts. Thanks Doug. Also i would love a yugo and a lada to trick out. Lol. Im not right
I used to see these running around Los Angeles once in awhile in the mid 80s. I really dreamed of having one. That's probably why I bought a del Sol when they first came out.
We need more 80s and 90's reviews! I would love to see you do something like an old 50's car too, some of those had some really unique quirks and features I'd love to hear your take on!
I owned a 1989 CRX that was one of the most reliable and well made cars I ever owned. I bought it new and sold it in 1998 with 352,000 miles on it, and the only major problem I ever had with it was the transmission blew at 223,000 miles. And although the horsepower figures sounded puny, that car would was very quick, and was happy at high speeds (I lived in Germany and it was happy on the autobahn).
For a second i though this was STRADMANS custom CRX lol!
I thought all the CRXs got destroyed in the late 90s and early 2000s with auto zone fart can exhausts and lowering springs. The fact that this thing is alive in one piece is incredible
That's cause it's customized
I’ve been driving mine all week. Perfect top down fall Midwest weather. Doug is right, not fast, but a fun roller skate. Manual steering, brakes and transmission for a great analog connection to the road.
I gotta say, I usually hate the body lines (especially the rear of most cars) of convertibles- but the Straman examples all look really good.
This is definitely cool, tho what i love about CRXs is the hatch style and look so this turns it into something very different for sure lol. At least visually. A RWD or AWD CRX would be amazing, such a neat little hatch. And the del Sol kinda did the T-top/open top CRX later, 400lbs heavier and double the HP (160 in top trim)
While the US had the del Sol labeled initially as "Civic del Sol", Japan still called it a CRX. They may be heavier, but they're still a lot of fun - I've owned both a first gen Miata and a top trim level del Sol and I honestly miss the del Sol more... It's not as nimble or engaging as the Miata, but it was vastly more practical while still having 90% of the fun factor.
A customer of mine, Larry Stickles, owned a CRX SI coupe. He kept modifying it so that eventually it was a race car in street garb. A Super Sleeper, if you will. His too was black with black rims and all of the chrome deleted. A shiny black blur whenever you saw him on the road.
Nice. I have a 91 SI swapped etc. Theu are wayyy fast with mods and can handle tye power very well with proper dialing in and of course driver. Lol
not at all interesting, this isn't about a supposed budddies car
@@slowery43 beep bop boop
You know it’s a good car when Doug has an uncontrollable smile at the end of the drive portion even though it’s only got 90hp.
Even he knows that this is more interesting and more fun than that Lucid with 1234hp.
You know a car is small when Doug can kneel next to it and still be taller the the roofline. 😂 1:21
Doug is the type of guy to describe his kid's "Quirks and features"
Doug’s kids are named Quirks and Features 😂
There were 3 models. The "Hf", the "Si", and the " ". Most people refer to the " " as the "STD" (standard), or "Dx", because it had the powertrain from a Civic Dx. It did not have a few things the Si did, like fuel injection (until 1988) and a sunroof. It was also the only trim level (of the CRX) available with an automatic transmission.
I had a CRX Dx and converted a few to MPFI (Si's fuel injection).
The “HF” was one of the most fuel efficient cars you buy. If you want comparable fuel efficiency today you have to buy a hybrid.
@@charlesbolton8471 I never had an Hf, but I did have an Hf exhaust manifold. That was the reason for MPFI swaps, actually.
You can bolt a turbo (I used a DSM T25 & an IHI RB5 from the local junkyard…that's a Mitsubishi Eclipse & Ford Probe) to the Hf manifold instead of the catalytic converter with a small adapter.
My first car was a 1986 CRX SI, manual, wrote a check for 1600 bucks in 1998, ended up driving it back to Ohio a year later, no cruise or power steering, loved that car.
First new car i ever bought....1984 CRX. loved it, drove it all over , put over 200,000 miles on it.
I'm 46 now. My first job at 19, was at a Shell station. The owner had a CRX that he had converted to a convertible. Have thought about it from time to time over the years.
Interesting.
Is it just me or does this conversion look like a squished r129 SL from the side?
Really cool look ngl
You're not alone. The two-tone paint is what made me think of the SL.
Yay a proper Doug video. I love the old stuff!
In the 90’s my father was in the market for a convertible that could also haul his golf clubs (he was in south Florida at the time) when he happened upon one of these in blue.
I remember him showing me this and we were in awe of how funky it was.
It looks like a 3/4 scale Mercedes-Benz SL.
If Honda made a new CRX or s2k I would be on the waitlist immediately
They almost did. The CR-Z had so much potential, and they leaned heavily on the CRX during it's marketing campaign.
If they'd done a CR-Z without the hybrid nonsense and shoved a K20 in it and called it the CR-Z Si, it would've been a huge hit.
Wasted opportunity and shameless promotion of new products using the nostalgia of old products. They just did the same thing with the Integra.
@@wun1gee I completely agree, my dad still daily drives this ‘90 CRX SI to this day.
@@MorellisMotorcare I still have my '85 Si, too. I don't daily drive it anymore and it needs some love but the plastic body panels are unobtanium at this point. You can see on this car that some of them are starting to crack too. There is no replacing them.
Such a great vid. Gettin back to why I started watching years ago
My first car was a 1986 CRX. I'm 6'4" and it was one of the roomiest cars I've ever owned for a driver
I know most people aren't the most enthusiastic about convertibles, but I love convertible anything tbh. I have a challenger with a convertible conversation and I get a lot of hate for it, but it's so much fun to drive, 6 speed standard trans, 500 *ish horsepower, even got a 'cuda replica kit for it. Let em hate, give us more convertibles!
I don't understand why Dodge never made a Challenger convertible. The Mustang convertible and Camaro convertible sold well. Challenger convertibles look good. If you enjoy it, that's all that matters. I'm partial to the 'cuda because I got to ride in a 1971 with the 440 Six-Pack and a pistol-grip shifter. That was an awesome machine.
@@bwofficial1776 is hard to meet emission standards from the factory, it adds a significant amount of weight doing that, I had to remove a lot from the car to get the weight down for a little more fuel economy
@@MrKingchris13 But if you're designing the car from the factory to be a convertible, the engineers can work around that. Ford and GM have had no problem making convertible muscle cars. Dodge easily could have designed the Charger with a convertible in mind. It's because it wasn't designed to be a convertible that you had to remove so much.
@@bwofficial1776 the challenger is a lot heavier than those cars, it would probably cost them a lot more to make the car than it's worth to sell. They'd need to develop an in house way to build that car cost effectively. Not even sure they still make a convertible car in house these days
Kinda funny, i still have a CRX rear trunk lid/hatch/door in my storage, which came from my brother's old CRX, it's been in storage for like 15 years at this point.
I always liked the CRX's flat back with the thin glass strip, too bad that they had to get rid of that strip with this version, but it looks fun though.
The dome light is the actual dome light that was in the ceiling. The black cars had white/tan headliners so that dome light matches that.
This is why I love Doug's channel.
This is part of why I love cars: there’s always some weird new prototype, kit car, coachbuilder, CKD, defunct manufacturer, or subculture to be discovered.
I remember this car in GTA San Andreas.
Love the new filming spot! 👍
That conversion work is ambitious, and seemingly well done in this case. Wow!
These are my favorite types of videos out of all the car genres 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Best quirks and features video in a long time! Thanks daddy Doug!
I had an 87 Honda CRX, wish I still had it. It was shocking how much room was inside, you would have been very comfy, Doug.
Great review! I love the fancy cars but this kind of stuff is so sweet!
Thanks for the backstory Doug i get super psyched for these retro vids
More of these! Much more interesting in cars like this than any supercar! So cool!
This brings back memories, I had 1 of those, my first car actually, I engine swaped a B18 from a crushed integra and I fitted an awd system from a shuttle it pushed 400hp and now my nephew drives it.
Finally some cool cheap classic. Missed these vids so much
I absolutely love this new location! 🎉
What a coincidence! I’m buying a 91 crx from a friend of mine. Been driving it the last few weeks and it’s so fun.
I had a '90 DX automatic with a riced out bodykit and 18 inch wheels. My favorite car I have ever owned.
I had one of these as a Teenager, it had bright blue interior and a digital dash that lit up orange. The front guards were fiberglass too.
I bought a 1984 CRX Si new and it was a blast!! I flogged that thing in town and it still gave me 30 MPG.
Saw one of these at JCCS Long Beach last Saturday, in silver. Looked great 👍
My Uncle had a blue 1st gen Si. It was the Euro spec with the 1.6L and 5spd. One of my favorite memories is a nice spirited drive and taking corners like the tires were made of Gorilla glue.
A company in Portland Oregon off 10th and Stark, back in the 90s, made a few of these convertible CRX. The shop was in an old firehouse, was really cool. I would go by as a little kid and just awww at the roofless CRX’s parked about.
I have had two CRX's one 87 and one 91, they were both SI models, both got amazing gas mileage, ironically the 87 got better gas mileage than the 91. I had Tokico 5 way adjustable struts on my 91 and with 17" wheels and Pirelli Parada tires it was a freaking go kart, You could violently yank the wheel at speed and go around a 90 degree corner like you were on rails. Such a fun car. I just wish all the CRX's available were not so beat up, riced out, and generally run down. Amazing cars.
Also very practical. I had a full size Lazy Boy recliner in the back of my CRX one time, as well as a 1972 Oldsmobile Rocket 350 motor, I moved the transmission later. You can fit a lot in a CRX.
That is just too dang cool! Never even knew it existed!
The best demonstration of what happens structurally to a car when you remove its roof was demonstrated with a shoebox. With the lid on its difficult to twist but take the lid off and it’ll twist easily. Usually structural bracing is strategically added to convertibles which makes them heavier than their coupe counterparts.
Had a black 87 CRX Si from 94 to about 2010. Really fun to drive, butt about 8 inches above the ground and you could pull a u turn on a one lane road. Still miss it.
As a JDM lover.......I NEVER knew about this awesomeness.
I had an 86 CRX and absolutely loved it. I was so much fun to drive.
SRS does not mean side air bags. It stands for Safety Restraint System and means the seats are designed with built in seatbelts. Air bags were not regulated until 1995.
Doug, I think you hit it on the nail in regards to Prelude trunk. It looks very familiar
I had an 86 reg crx, and you re so right about the nimble fun of this car in the city.
it was a pocket rocket alright, racing from light to light, this was supreme!
I could burn oh, so many much bigger cars.
name it, I cooked em, the 2 nd gear was all it had, but it was enough.
forget the highway though, as the 3 rd left you standing, next to mustangs or the sort.
looking back however, this was a kamikaze car, one hit and you re done for...
starting without a starter was a breeze, just push it a bit, get the 2nd gear in,
and voila! the car will start like a charm, even in winter time.
I loved this car, bachelor, you don t need more than 2 seats.
unfortunately, the rust roasted the bottom and rear suspension...
I could nt trust it in curves anymore. [not the way I used to anyways]
so I traded it for a 93 civic si coupe [black] as in the 1 rst fast & furious.
heavier, but so much more powerful and steadier.
which I loved even more.
great memories Doug.
good show bro.
mid 90's DuPont Registry always had ads for convertible conversion shops. Coolest conversion I've see was a 3rd gen Rx-7 (which was hilarious because they didn't relocate the door handles but still looked cool)
That's probably one of the best Cabriolet conversions I've ever seen!!
That clip-on microphone makes top-down driving segments much better.
Love this old school stuff. I wish cars were more simple again. Easy open top and a manual window that is fully down in two rotations .