A 1980 Honda Accord CVCC hatchback, found in a Northern California wrecking yard.
The Honda Accord is now in its 11th generation, closing in on a half-century since the first Saitama-built examples joined the Civic in American Honda showrooms. The first-generation 1976-1981 Accords have become thin on the ground in American junkyards in recent years, but this '80 hatchback appeared in a boneyard near Santa Cruz not long ago. The Accord was available only in hatchback form at first, with the sedan version added for the 1979 model year in the United States market.
-market cars until 1981, so we can't know whether this car had 97,352 or 497,452 miles at the end. The best-traveled Accord I've ever found in a junkyard was an '88 with 626,476 miles . The engine is a 1751cc straight-four with the CVCC stratified-charge fuel-delivery system, rated at 68 horsepower and 94 pound-feet. The 1980 Accords with five-speed manual transmissions got 72 horsepower, but this car has the Hondamatic automatic .
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