{"id":76267,"date":"2024-08-29T00:03:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T04:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76267"},"modified":"2024-08-29T00:03:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T04:03:21","slug":"junkyard-gem-1980-honda-accord-hatchback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=76267","title":{"rendered":"Junkyard Gem: 1980 Honda Accord Hatchback"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Honda Accord is now in its 11th generation<\/a>, closing in on a half-century since the first Saitama-built examples<\/a> joined the Civic in American Honda showrooms. The first-generation 1976-1981 Accords have become thin on the ground in American junkyards<\/a> in recent years, but this ’80 hatchback appeared in a boneyard near Santa Cruz<\/a> not long ago.<\/p>\n

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The Accord was available only in hatchback form at first, with the sedan version<\/a> added for the 1979 model year in the United States market.<\/p>\n

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This exquisitely Malaise Era<\/a> paint color was named Catherine Brown<\/a>. The 1980 Accord was also available in such colors as Amall Blue, Longleet Gold, Saint Moritz Silver and Sophia Red.<\/p>\n

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When cars rust in coastal California, they tend to do so from the top down. The hatch on this car is pretty far gone.<\/p>\n

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The interior looks good for age 44.<\/p>\n

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Honda didn’t go to six-digit odometers<\/a> in its U.S.-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<\/a> (topped only by a 631k-mile Volvo 240<\/a>, a 648k-mile Camry<\/a> and a 949k-mile Avalon<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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The engine is a 1751cc straight-four with the CVCC<\/a> stratified-charge fuel-delivery system, rated at 68 horsepower and 94 pound-feet.<\/p>\n

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The 1980 Accords with five-speed manual transmissions got 72 horsepower, but this car has the Hondamatic automatic<\/a> (a weird motorcycle-derived unit that could be considered a two-speed or a three-speed, depending on your definitions<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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The curb weight of this car was a mere 2,145 pounds, roughly the same as that of the 2024 Mitsubishi Mirage<\/a>. The current Accord<\/a> scales in at well over 3,200 pounds, by the way.<\/p>\n

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The Jeco clock was standard equipment, unusual for such an affordable car at the time.<\/p>\n

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The MSRP for this car with Hondamatic was $6,199, or about $25,062 in 2024 dollars.<\/p>\n

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I had a 1940 Agfa Speedex film camera<\/a> with me on my trip to California junkyards, as one does<\/a>, and I took a few shots of this car with it.<\/p>\n\n

Those JDM fender mirrors looked good on the Accord.<\/p>\n\n

Honda wasn’t building Accords in Ohio when this car was new (the first one rolled off the Marysville line in late 1982<\/a>), but they tested them there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}