'man down' with gred Davis. Is that a Mk1?

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 3:20 pm

That burgundy Accord was just like mine, except mine had the wing mirrors in the right place and a load of rust. 1602cc ex model, electric windows all round, PAS, 5 gears. Was awesome. Could keep up with mate's Metro Turbo until 80, it topped out at 90! Lolz.

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:24 am

come on, the acclaim is basically an accord rebranded so bigotted racalists of englands past would buy a jap car

Post by **indigolemon** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:35 am

Nope - the Acclaim was a Honda Ballade, next size down from Accords in the model range. Had a really sweet 1.3 engine though, twin carb and 70 ponies, totally breathless over about 65

Would love an Avon Turbo Acclaim - more chance of finding a pot of gold than one of those though

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Just found this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Triumph-Accla ... 43c0201c9b

Price seems a wee bit optimistic ...

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:45 am

whatev's

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 2:19 pm

That said, the Acclaim massively boosted the sale of the Accord. Back in the early 80's the British car buying public rarely bought Jap cars, it was all about Austin, Vauxhall, Ford etc, with some French jobby thrown in for good measure.

When the Acclaim was released, people realised that for not a lot more money you could have an Accord with a 1602cc engine and more electrics than Tubeway Army could sing about. Basically the Accord offered the market an affordable luxury family saloon.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 3:04 pm

indigolemon wrote:Nope - the Acclaim was a Honda Ballade

Bingo!

So we were right thinking there was an identical looking Honda badged vehicle (just wrong that it wasn't an Accord).

Just found this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Triumph-Accla ... 43c0201c9b

Price seems a wee bit optimistic ...

Mint, isn't the word!!!

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 3:09 pm

Shiny wrote:That said, the Acclaim massively boosted the sale of the Accord. Back in the early 80's the British car buying public rarely bought Jap cars, it was all about Austin, Vauxhall, Ford etc, with some French jobby thrown in for good measure.

Quite right!
My dad bought one of these when I was young (bought it new I think)

and I remember everyone was like 'wtf have you bought something Jap for'?
Fantastic car, soooo much more reliable and modern than any of the crap they had. My dad never looked back from having a jap car as the family car (while he had something German and then French as his car).

EDIT:
It was this colour

I remember the back of the front seats being particularly tasty, too...

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 3:25 pm

What jap metal brought to the UK was the assured comfort of getting into the car in the morning and having the engine start.

everything else was just gravy

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 4:29 pm

Yeah, my dad bought a 1980 Accord EX like this (but burgundy/"tudor red") in what must have been 1982.

It was way ahead of other cars at the time, so comfortable. BMWs / Mercs etc at the time were nasty and really low spec, you had to pay for every little extra. The Accord in the UK was two models, the base model, or the EX with electric everything.

He was going to sell the car in 1987 due to the amount of rust but agreed to sell it to me for £100 provided i made it look better. I think i paid him £10 a month for about 5 months and then my mum made him write off the rest of my debt.

Anyway, it spent the next 3 months in my grandad's garage and i was up there every night sanding, rust treating, filling and spraying until it looked respectable. No youtube guides in those days either!

Saw me good for the next 3 years until structural rust got the better of her and she had to go to the great scrap yard in the sky. Great car, awesome car for a first car and probably why 26 years later i'm still driving an Accord.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 6:13 pm

Shiny wrote:He was going to sell the car in 1987 due to the amount of rust but agreed to sell it to me for £100 provided i made it look better. I think i paid him £10 a month for about 5 months and then my mum made him write off the rest of my debt.

Anyway, it spent the next 3 months in my grandad's garage and i was up there every night sanding, rust treating, filling and spraying until it looked respectable. No youtube guides in those days either!

sounds like my first car - my dad replaced the Sunny my mum was driving at the time because it got so scruffily rotten/bent and I took it on when I was 16 on the basis that I would sort out the rot and make it presentable. Several months of kurust, P38, rattle cans and T-Cut later, the beige with brown interior goddess was back on the road under my inexperienced hands

1.5l of proper OHC power as opposed to the pathetic 900cc things my mates had

Then 15 months later I stuck it into the telegraph pole