Name: This might be the most Important Civic EVER. Here's why.
Uploaded: 2025-01-11T07:19:12.000Z
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This car right beside me is the peak tuner car of the early 2000s.

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Now you might look at it now and think, ew, that's gross.

But back in the day, this car embodied what it meant to be a tuner.

I'm gonna show you why this car stands out as the most important tuner car of the 2000s.

How it came to be in the first place and how it influenced an entire generation of gearheads.

I bet some of you watching right now are those people.

We're going bumper to bumper on the Civic to rule all other Civics.

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Now, the first thing I wanna talk about is this right here.

Now, if you don't know what Super Street is, it's a magazine publication.

And if your car was featured on the cover of Super Street magazine, people knew you meant business and you had the tastiest of cars.

It's kind of similar to how if your car is featured on Bumper 2 Bumper, you're crushing it too.

Now, the reason this car has Super Street on the window is not because it was featured on the magazine, it's because Super Street actually built it.

So why don't we pop open that hood and see what's going on in that engine bay.

It just doesn't wanna go in that carbon fiber piece.

That's how you open a hood, the fast way.

So we have a lot of period correct goodies under this hood.

You have upgraded fuel rail, you got an upgraded ignition, all this piping right here, there's a little turbo under there.

Little HKS turbo power with an intercooler.

It's even got the classic kind of honeycomb, kind of mushroom top air cleaner.

You have all the matching red hoses that match the color of the car.

Even the hose to connect the reservoir for the radiator fluid is colored.

They went through and tried to make as many colored hose pieces as you possibly could.

That was a big thing to do back in the day.

But the one thing that it has that's probably the most tuner-ish thing you could ever have inside an engine bay, nitrous fricking oxide.

So if you come over here and see this little port right here that shoots a mixture of gas and nitrous right into your intake for a little bit of kaboom power.

Now this engine is extremely modified, but let's go to the inside of the car and see what fine little tasty touches are in there.

Okay, now the first thing when you get in this car, it's super tight.

And that's about as wide as you can be if you want to sit in these seats.

But they really like, you know, they really lock you in.

It's got a really cool seatbelt called a racing belt.

Oh, so much dust that just came off that thing.

Oh, I'm going the wrong way, freaking idiot.

That's how you quickly put on a seatbelt.

There's a couple things that are very racy about this car.

It's got the red trim along the armrest here.

But maybe the biggest elephant in the room is this big freaking bottle of nitrous oxide.

Now this car also doesn't have back seats.

They've been replaced with a pretty trick sound system.

And how do you control this pop out screen?

Oh, well, only the coolest way that you used to be able to control the screen.

And that's with freaking joystick remotes.

If you had a remote that you controlled your sound system and DVD player with in your car, oh gosh, you just leave some for the rest of us.

So this car was in the Honda storage facility for so long that people forgot about it.

They even left the freaking windows down when they stored it.

So it got all sorts of dust and all sorts of stuff that, you know, when you're in a warehouse that is just kind of stagnant, that just kind of sits on top of the car, and it got into the carpet and the seats, and you can still kind of smell the remnants of all that.

When they were trying to go make some space to put other cars, someone had the idea of, oh, well, this is a pre-production car.

And the way they get rid of cars is by crushing them.

Luckily, there was a guy by the name of Bruce Garfield, and he knew the important history of this car and knew that it wasn't a pre-production car.

So this car was on its way to the crusher mere minutes away from getting smashed into one cube of red and yellow metal.

And Bruce found the title and showed them that it wasn't a pre-production car, that it had a lot of significance.

So because this car was put away and pretty much abandoned up until recently, a lot of its history has been lost.

So we're going to give it our old college try, see if this thing will crank up.

Dear Civic Tuning Gods of the 2000s, please, we ask that you'll inject some sweet, yummy, ethanol-free gasoline that's been sitting in the lines for the last 20 years into the fuel rail, into the cylinder, and then that those sweet spark plugs will spark up that air-fuel mixture, and this thing will puff out some sweet CO2 emissions right into this enclosed space.

So obviously, the car is indistinguishable.

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