so i've had my car for almost 6 years now, and 100K miles. she just turned 164K miles this week, so i figured i'd put together a little time line of what she's been through
warning, tons and tons of pics

lets see heres what she looked like maybe a week after i had her. not terrible i guess. it gets worse before it gets better haha





then she looked like this for some time, dont have any good pics of the front with my $4 yellow fog lights but uhhhh yeah, still not so good


then i finally got some wheels for her



then me and my buddy got the idea it needed painted. this is 1 of like 4 paint jobs i think over 6 years haha





same color, we just added a whole ton of gold pearl to the clearcoat




then i got a type r lip


somewhere along the lines, i forget when exactly i had her tuned etc with vafc2, CTR cams and valvesrpings and a bunch of other smaller stuff, got me 163.something whp. yay right? haha

so anyways after that paint job, something went wrong with the clear and it all started fallin off. so time to start over again. oh and also note the wheels are painted gold now




then the flat black got old, this was the worst paint to remove ever...
everyone told me i shouldve left it like this haha



back to just the factory color, no frills. this time everything sticks how its supposed too haha





ohhhhhh look at it shine!

then came a hit and run

then i decided to raise her up a bit on stock ITR springs


and redid my valvecover

and then most recently vandalism

thats all fixed now too, cuz of winter i have no more new pics yet. thats just all the visual stuff that you could see in the changes in my car over the last 100K miles. i cant even begin to tell you about the amount of money i've put into this car between parts, bodywork, repairs, maintenance, clutches, ect ect. lets just say i have a good idea how to work on my car now. maybe some more to come, or maybe i'll just putt a few hundred thousand miles on her. either way, thats all i got, thanks for looking!

 

Nice timeline. I enjoyed it.

 

like the color combo.

 

You've been around for awhile, I remember you from the md/va/dc forsale boards here. Thanks for sharing man, glad you still have her.

 

Dang its been through alot, I've had my Civic for almost 4 years and havent done anything to it...let alone a few paint jobs! Great job though, good luck with it

 

+2

 

dang thats a lot of paint.. looks good!

 

good timeline sir

 

Pretty good timeline, interesting too!

 

thanks, it was a lot of paintjobs but my buddy worked at a place that mixed and dealt with auto paints so it was pretty cheap haha. the cheapest paint job was the flat black one, that one was i think $35. im surprised i can keep track of everything, this is just all the stuff you can see. not including all the engine stuff, suspension stuff, etc..etc.. haha

 

very good timeline, i loved the flat black picture, that was sick

 

n ice.
you should have left it camo looking.

 

nice.

 

i wish i could keep a car that long !!!!!!!

 

haha, this is the longest i've ever had a car