I once owned a 1974 Honda Civic rust bucket that was missing the driver’s side floor board, Flintstone Style. It was the first year Honda decided to install an automatic transmission to basically a motorcycle engine and while feasible; it was still a bad idea. The car was a dog, no matter how fast I was going at the bottom of a hill, I’d be doing 25 mph by the time I hit the top if I was lucky.   I once drove it thru a mountainous area, also a bad idea. This car also did great donuts in the snow, mostly when I wasn’t planning on doing them.

So why am I writing about this car now, well I had a weird accident with it. I was sitting at a red light during a heavy snow storm, not doing donuts, when I was rear ended by all things, a Ferrari. I never asked why they were driving this kind of car in a snow storm, but some people have more money than brains. The accident didn’t really damage my car any since it was after all; a rust bucket. But it did scratch the front of their car up as my bumper road up it. Needless to say, I went home and they went out for an expensive paint job, you don’t take a Ferrari to Macco.