LaFonda, My 1985 Honda
ramrod88
Band Wagon
So I'll start off by a laying down my history so far with LaFonda, I found her on craigslist non-running for $1200. I called the owner and talked him down to $1100. He said the car ran fine, but he couldnt get it to start at the moment. He had installed a new distributor, and plugs. It turned over so I paid him his cash and trailered it home. After a day of lurking on here, I decided to rebuild the carburetor. It started, but ran very rough. I dont have any pictures of the carb rebuild, but when I pulled it off the intake had about a 1/4" of gas sitting in it.
My next issue was addressing a decent amount of cracked vacuum lines. I replace the lines in the CVCC box while I had it apart. There was about 16 foot of vacuum lines in the box itself.
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You can see the radiator fluid all over this rubber plate.
Tapping the hole.
Radiator fluid in the intake.
And finally the finished plug.
Today was the first day that I have the car running very well and was able to take it out for a drive, Which was a huge relief. I'll keep you guys updated as I have alot of work planned for this car!
Same here, I was stoked that the car came with the oldschool enkei's. I originally looked at this car as a quick flip. but fixing it up this last week has made it impossible for me to sell it now. I
You could try to do snow tires, but they wear fast especially if you don't even get snow. I usually check out discount tires and see what they have.
Got the valve lashing all squared away.
I also started working on a little bit of a facelift
Tore the front end all apart.
Also took took the rear bumper off.
Sanded and taped off the bumpers. I sprayed semi gloss on the top half and a rubberized coating on the bottom half. So I'm not scratching the paint when I take it wheeling. haha
I was quite happy with the results!
Now all I have left for the exterior is to paint the trim and lay down some undercoating below the trim.
Plus a roof basket, front and rear winches, a dixie horn, a custom big foot gas pedal hahaha
I also received my Holy Grail guide in the mail today, I've been buried in it all afternoon. Thank God for this manual lol.
But without further rambling, here is how Lafonda sits at the moment. Still deciding on which roof rack I want.
Through the headaches, busted knuckles, and long nights of lurking through many forums, I'm really, really falling in love with this car lol. I don't see this one going anywhere for a long time :smug::encouragement: