Integra Type R

Wow, nice find!

 

If the VIN starts with JH4DC231 . . then it's a real Type R. It's the 231 part that's revealing. A GSR would be a 238 (239 with leather).

 

I had a clone of this car. It was stolen. There wasn't much left when it was found. Hell of a car!

 

I believe the DC2 Integra is the most stolen car in history. Had a DC2 in high school/college. Was stolen twice. Once in front of my house. Good thing that night, i didnt have too much gas in the tank. Thieves just left it on the sidd of the freeway.

 

In 3 years time, the JDM 96 versions will be legal in the U.S. I'll be looking for one in phoenix yellow. A majority are white. JDM versions are 200-300 lbs lighter, come with better seats, a slightly better motor, and imo a better looking front end.

 

I remember the same fact. Mine was stolen in front of my apartment. I had received the settlement check from the insurance company and got a call from the police saying they had found what was left of my car. I went to the impound yard and saw the car, it was completely stripped: no motor, tires or interior.

I took the settlement check and bought a new Integra GSR as the dealer didn't have and couldn't locate any Type R's. The GSR was nice but not the same.

 

You didn't work at the palmer's Bedford Autodrom in 2000 did you? I did a drivers event there and one of the batch of cars we drove was a ITR 1.8

 

Yes that would have been the place. I worked there most of 2000 and was rotated between events but spent a lot of time with the Type R's. Great cars that were enormously fun to drive on the limit.

On thing that was interesting about them is that the Type R engines always seemed to consume more oil than the regular Honda engines. Of course all engines burn more oil when really beaten but the Type R would have quite a lot higher consumption. At the track the cars were very well cared for and always got everything they needed. As for oil changes, because the Type R's were topped up so regularly there was no need to fully dump the oil and all they got were a new filter now and then.

 

you may have been my instructor... they said they paired us cuz we were canucks...

i thought the s2k was much more of a hoot of a car to drive than the itr. on the track you dont miss the thin torque down low and you can steer pretty well with the right foot like an E30 old M3. its a surprisingly a tail happy car for a factory setting which was awesome... its no wonder they tone it down with subsequent years. every time i i came around somebody had spun it 100 yards into the wet grass on the 3 gear sweeper.

most entertaining car of the day was easily the caterham 7...

 

Very cool!

 

holy cow that's a clean engine bay!

glws...any hints on what you bought?

 

GLWS, strong numbers on the white one that just went.

 

Sterling, you might rather not say, and that is of course your right, but I would be curious to hear these cars backstories. How does any car travel through so much time with so little use and so little wear? Was it deliberately preserved? Was it forgotten? Was it stored and just lost? Very unusual for any car, compounded by it being a desirable car. I love a good story. Again, I understand if you dont want to reveal too much of your business method, but I was curious.

 

Ferraris are rare and exotic. A lot of them are bought for reasons other than primary transportation and are stored away and fussed over. Most of them have very low miles. Acuras are normal cars. Theyre driven to the grocery store, to the mall, they get door dings, they get stolen, they get left out in the rain and in the sun, they haul stuff to and from work and school. So yeah, an almost 20 year old car with 33k miles seems to me clearly someone either was protecting it, which is interesting, or it was lost somewhere, which is interesting. I dont recall acting like it has zero miles, but it certainly has less than its peers, which have long ago been modded and used to death. Good luck with the sale.