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Post Exchange => Buy, Sell, or Trade: General => Topic started by: booksmart on June 26, 2015, 12:13:29 am

Title: FS in Tucson: 2005 Honda Civic LX
Post by: booksmart on June 26, 2015, 12:13:29 am

Hi folks -

Some friends of mine who currently live in Tucson are making a job move back to the east coast, and are selling their second car, the titular 2006 Honda Civic LX.

http://tucson.craigslist.org/cto/5088657998.html (http://tucson.craigslist.org/cto/5088657998.html)  $6400, and less than 65k miles (which, as many of you know, is barely broken in for a Honda).

Oh, it's also a manual transmission...

So, anybody got a teenager needing a good car?

Title: Re: FS in Tucson: 2005 Honda Civic LX
Post by: Kaso on June 26, 2015, 01:02:32 am

Quote from: booksmart on June 26, 2015, 12:13:29 am

Oh, it's also a manual transmission...

So, anybody got a teenager needing a good car?

Anybody know a modern teenager who can drive a manual?  :-\



Kaso

Title: Re: FS in Tucson: 2005 Honda Civic LX
Post by: booksmart on June 26, 2015, 01:19:11 am

Meh. Honda clutches are very forgiving - stalling one is more like a polite sputter out than getting whiplash, unless you *reaaaaalllly* screw it up.

Much easier than the VW clutch I learned on. Form of exercise, that was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-b2NtnsjxI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-b2NtnsjxI)

Title: Re: FS in Tucson: 2005 Honda Civic LX
Post by: coyotesfan97 on June 26, 2015, 07:58:36 am

Manual transmissions are currently the best anti theft device on the market right now.

I learned to drive a shift in a 75 Pinto station wagon.

Title: Re: FS in Tucson: 2005 Honda Civic LX
Post by: Mikee5star on June 26, 2015, 12:42:11 pm

Quote from: coyotesfan97 on June 26, 2015, 07:58:36 am

Manual transmissions are currently the best anti theft device on the market right now.

I learned to drive a shift in a 75 Pinto station wagon.

I loved watching the confused look when people jumped in my old truck and realized there was column shift other than automatic.

Sounds like a good deal on the Honda.

Title: Re: FS in Tucson: 2005 Honda Civic LX
Post by: coelacanth on June 26, 2015, 11:37:22 pm

 :rotfl  Now, imagine it in a '53 GMC with the ignition switch on the instrument panel and the starter button on the floor to the left of the brake pedal.  It would take a high school shop class a half hour to figure out how to start it and another half hour to actually drive it away.   

Title: Re: FS in Tucson: 2005 Honda Civic LX
Post by: cpaspr on June 28, 2015, 11:47:38 pm

Left of the brake?  Interesting.  My 51 Chevy p/u had it right of the gas pedal.  Battery was under the passenger floorboard, master cylinder under the driver's floorboard.  I learned a lot on that old truck.  Sigh. 

Title: Re: FS in Tucson: 2005 Honda Civic LX
Post by: coelacanth on June 29, 2015, 03:58:26 pm

Actually, I misspoke - it was to the left of the clutch pedal - all the way over where the old headlight dimmer switches used to be.  Just inside the door opening and a little way toward the firewall where the floorboard started to ramp up.