Well, I've been in the car game since '98 in Dallas, TX and have basically only had civic hatchbacks. Within the last 4 years or so I steered away from Honda's (but still loved them) and got into Evo's. First, I had two Evo 8's and now a Evo X. Recently I got my girl an Evo too and she gave me her Galant to drive for daily/travel use because I gave up my company truck and get paid .55 cents a mile but I decided to sell the galant and found a nice 1997 CW ITR that had new paint, wire tuck and all carpet, dash and cluster was there so I just needed a engine, 5 lug and wheels and some seats. Here's a few pics of the car

 

And here's a few of the Evo

 

Congrats! Love 97's.

 

Congrats , is it a clean title ? Just curious what's the history on why its missing All that stuff

 

Welcome to the R world sir. Also love the color on the Evo.

 

how much did you pay for your itr if you dont mind me asking

 

in for answers... would like to find something like that

 

Cool '97

I hope you do great things with it

Just so you know, the cluster is out of a '00-'01 ITR and not a '97.

 

Awesome, good luck on the restore. Awesome to see you on track with the EVO!

 

looking real good. my R should be out of the paint shop sometime this week hopefully i can take it to ricekiller

 

Car needs a lot of work. Stolen motor on top of a wire tuck? Good luck with that.

Personally, I'd "untuck" ASAP and do the car correctly.

Looks like it lived the life of rice back in the day too

 

I know that car very well, actually got the lip for it. I almost purchased it when it had a JDM front and got wrecked
hit me up when needing more stuff

 

Congrats!

 

dont sell the USDM front! saw your CL ad

 

lol. JDM 'fronting a '97 R = priceless.

I thought people had moved past the point of that mod, but I suppose not.

 

Dude, you are priceless. Is this what you do, just sit back and make fun of people's **** because somehow you have invested interest in it? If I put a JDM front on it, I dare someone to tell me something about it to my face, especially you. I want to stay completely original but I'm kinda having a hard time coming up with the parts that I need but I might be grabbing some 5x114.3 susp and wheels for really cheap so it probably wouldn't look right with a usdm front. But for your information, I'm leaning towards keeping it and just waiting til I find the right parts anyway. As far as the "untucking"...Please come help me do it because I do not have the time for that. I have just enough time to gather the parts the parts and put everything together in a couple of weekends.

 

got it for 3350 and it is a theft recovery.

 

Find me some 15" CW wheels then. I actually did find a really nice set in NJ for 350 no tires so if I do that then it will be all original. That is my original plan anyway.

 

Nice. I'll most likely still take my Evo and my girl's Evo to any of the meets or C & C though. I'll bring out the R sometimes though. This is Bo right?

 

don't worry about what some d bags have to say its your car and do what you please with it. some type r guys have their ******* nose to the sky and think their **** don't stink. mines tucked to and I get nothing but **** for it. I just tell them to pound sand and kick rocks. car looks like its got a fresh start at a great price! im jealous I love the 97 front ends!!

 

Whats up with some people? Guy gets a Type R and haters start attacking the car

Grats man. Welcome to the club.

 

Apparently, I'm an internet tough guy--just like you.



Why even buy the car if you don't have time for it then complain about that very fact? That car is a major project and I don't see how swapping front ends makes it any easier to complete and/or gets you any extra money.

In the grand scheme of things, it's a salvaged title car so it'll have less value, so have fun with it. Just seems a shame because '97's are hard to find in any form and like it or not--but the cars are getting rarer by the day and JDM fronts and hella-tight wire tucks don't help the value out.

 

Hey, i'm happy you finally came up on a Type Wah. Not like two Evo Xs keep you busy or anything. lol. You've been around so long you can put a Ford Taurus front end on it and that would be fine by me. Hell, maybe we can throw Tool00 on the front as an emblem, since his head is so big.

 

What value? It's just a damn salvaged title project car that will only be used for my travel and daily use. I mean, I have my "big value" car already and I will keep and use this car til it just falls apart so resale value really means nothing to me. Maybe I would think about it differently if it was not a salvaged title. Anyway, the point is totally moot anyway because I found the 5 lug suspension and itr wheels that I want because I believe that all original is the way to go. But, I'm sure you did not care about that anyway because you are busy up on your "type r high horse" and too busy tearing down and ripping apart MY damn project. Just look at the other posts in this thread and realize that you sir, are a dick. I would love to see you in your everyday life because I bet you are a miserable dude, man.

 

Good ****, thanks Felix. LOL