All this recent talk about wagons in Honda Tuning
suspendedHatch
Wagonist
Here's the July 2004 Honda Tuning magazine and part 2 of the "Draggin Waggin" saga. http://suspendedhatch.thecarthing.com/honda_civic_wagon/Draggin_Waggin.pdf I don't know what issue part 1 was in. That was before the author found my former best friend (no longer friends since I talked shit about his sister's myspace page LOLOLOL) and got me involved.
2WD Wagon
That's me in the bottom pic operating the engine hoist.
The story is that my friend Scottie called me up one day and told me to bring my engine hoist up to the Inland Empire (I was living in San Diego). So I ripped out all but the driver's seat of my old Corolla and packed it up there, where I was shamelessly exploited for manual labor. No one told me it was going to be in a magazine, that I was in one of the pics and no one bothered to ask me how I spell my name. Later, I was at Harv's Dyno hanging out w/Scottie once again as he was tuning this beast, and he asked me to take some pictures. He didn't tell me it was for a magazine article that I wouldn't be getting credit in. LOL. No one tells me shit. But a year later Scottie gave me a copy of the magazine.
Some time after that, all this scandal was going down at Harv's cuz my friend quit and moved to Arizona. This mexican street racing gang bought Harv's. Scottie called me up once again and told me to go get some suspension forks from a junkyard EG, drive up to Whittier (once again, I was living in San Diego), and install them on the Draggin Waggin so Dominic could come get it. So I drop what I'm doing and go. When I get there, these crazy vatos are watching me like a hawk, paranoid that I'm there to do some sabotage. Needless to say, I got the job done in 15 mins and got my ass on the freeway.
Apparently there's been a part 3. http://www.hondatuningmagazine.com/tech/0309ht_1991_honda_civic_d_series_engine/index.html This guy Dominic still owes me for a bunch of wagon parts I gave him a few years back. Entire doors etc! Not to mention risking my life to install the forks. So I may have to track him down soon.
2WD Wagon
That's me in the bottom pic operating the engine hoist.
The story is that my friend Scottie called me up one day and told me to bring my engine hoist up to the Inland Empire (I was living in San Diego). So I ripped out all but the driver's seat of my old Corolla and packed it up there, where I was shamelessly exploited for manual labor. No one told me it was going to be in a magazine, that I was in one of the pics and no one bothered to ask me how I spell my name. Later, I was at Harv's Dyno hanging out w/Scottie once again as he was tuning this beast, and he asked me to take some pictures. He didn't tell me it was for a magazine article that I wouldn't be getting credit in. LOL. No one tells me shit. But a year later Scottie gave me a copy of the magazine.
Some time after that, all this scandal was going down at Harv's cuz my friend quit and moved to Arizona. This mexican street racing gang bought Harv's. Scottie called me up once again and told me to go get some suspension forks from a junkyard EG, drive up to Whittier (once again, I was living in San Diego), and install them on the Draggin Waggin so Dominic could come get it. So I drop what I'm doing and go. When I get there, these crazy vatos are watching me like a hawk, paranoid that I'm there to do some sabotage. Needless to say, I got the job done in 15 mins and got my ass on the freeway.
Apparently there's been a part 3. http://www.hondatuningmagazine.com/tech/0309ht_1991_honda_civic_d_series_engine/index.html This guy Dominic still owes me for a bunch of wagon parts I gave him a few years back. Entire doors etc! Not to mention risking my life to install the forks. So I may have to track him down soon.
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This is one of the issues. I have the others but I have to look for it. They never finished the project though.
I was a hardcore magazine whore for a good 10 years. I kept every single copy of Super Street, SCC, HT, and Grass Roots Motorsports (the only one I still sometimes buy) until a few years ago when I got tired of packing them every time I would move lol
Yeah, I agree with the packing-Unpacking thing, besides, talk about hell trying to keep your freinds from destroying them!
"ask any racer, any REAL racer!"
I thought he was dead. He used to be a famous drag racer until he got some heart problems. Then he just disappears and I don't hear anything until someone here posted an article by him about the same car I supplied a hoist and a bunch of parts for.
I didn't even mention that I gave him an Optima battery, four doors, a turbo, and some other stuff from a wagon I parted out.
Is this Shaun?
I thought Scottie was just pissed at you cause you parted out the turbo wagon he sold you.
Scottie married my sister.
No really. I'm his brother in law. I remember us taking this thing up to Buttonwillow for the Hotchkiss mag shootout. Awesome fun, but the shitty old tires on it didn't last for the full-track sessions. I think he put it in the dirt twice, maybe 3 times before he decided he was a danger to everyone else on the track.
It was fun showing up and getting odd looks from the guys with the evo, the ferrari (James Chen I think) and then earning a lil respect with a car that cost one of their card payments to build.
Scottie works at Motiva Performance in Albuquerque NM now as the shop foreman, alongside Hellion. Still builds some sick cars.
No surprise Scottie is running that place.
IMO I didn't part it out. That shit was parted out already. No fucking heater or climate control. No door handles. Original seats gone. Blown headgasket and radiator. Bad AEM EMS. That's what I get for buying it sight unseen. I though it would basically look like your mom's wagon. The wagon I have now looks just like it.