Hi. I bought my 97 civic a few months back. I love the car. I've already driven it from Colorado to California and back on a whim, and it ran perfectly. Averaged 47mpg for the trip...amazing. The story behind it is it sat for years for some reason so only had 114k miles when i got it, there was one owner between it sitting and my getting it and he had to sell it because it hurt his back climbing in and out of it. lucky me. he did some work, new intake and new exhaust/muffler, paint (well like a plastic coat). I would like to start working on it myself and do some more to it. make it fast. its already the fastest car in the family 0-40 in less than a block in 1st gear, but i want more. i'll be posting more when i can afford to start work on it. (broke college kid).