My mom had an 81 Accord. It was the last car we had before she went to nothing but MB. IIRC that car was around 6500 bucks new. It was a LX model, with the Vacuum actuated locks for the rear doors, operated by a lever next to the parking brake.

FWIW, I remember that car was a piece of ***** and you could never get parts for it, but that was 83-84 ish.


Also had rear defroster. I remember the car didn't come with a radio. IIRC a lot of Hondas (except the EX) were shipped without AC, and the dealer/port installed the AC.

A friend had a 04 Civic HX, port installed AC. Interesting. Installation is clean and looks just like stock.

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Oh really? That must be before they started being good cars, unless that one was a lemon. I had a 1984 Accord LX 4dr (loaded) in the late 90s that had about 250K miles on it. Also over the years I have had two 1986 Accords and a 1991 Accord - all were super cars.

I bought an '81 4-door for full list and thought I was damned lucky to get it too...it was my first ever new car. I remember that it was so quiet, you could hear the clock ticking when you were on the road. The no radio thing was weird...I had to buy a $65 plastic adapter to mate the Sony FM/cassette player to the dash but, was impressed that all the speaker wiring was already in place!

Nice car but the seating was horribly uncomfortable on long road trips for anyone over 225# and 6 ft.

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Yeah, my old 84' Accord was very squeak and rattle free, despite well over 200K miles. It had a factory AM-FM cassette though, since it was the LX model.