89 Civic bare rough shell with good cage and clean title, Philly area, $Free

Most of you racing Lemons in the northeast have been passed by this car, and now it is time to pass it along or it is going to scrap soon. It has been hit many times and after hitting a wheel at NH in 2020 we decided to start fresh and not keep repairing this one.  It has been raced for about 7 years and we figure it has about 30,000 track miles on it with 5 different motors and 4 transmissions and it has been quite successful.  

This is a bare shell with an excellent cage and plenty of EF Civic spare parts.  The cage is the important part, you can cut the roof off of this and put it in your own car in one piece saving massive amounts of time and money.   1.75" x 0.095" DOM tubing properly bent and notched and welded.  Base plates are 1/8" and more than 24" square.  The door bars are awesome.  This cage has always breezed through tech.   Look at the pictures, this is most of what you get if it is in the car.  Spares include two sets of DA Integra knuckles (one loaded with new bearings/ball joints/ARP studs), new upper control arms, F LCAs with poly bushings, two fuse boxes, and likely more that I have forgotten.  I can also include a D-series cable Si spec transmission of unknown provenance.  Ignore the box and other things on the roof, I'm keeping those.  

Additional spares not shown are a pair of fenders, a clean uncut hood, front and rear bumper covers, a front bumper rebar, both sides door and hatch area glass.  

You will not be able to make this into a functional car again unless you have another entire car so that you can mix and match the best parts.  It will even be difficult to put another D or B series engine as I have removed the passenger side motor mount as needed for our engine swap and the wiring has been modified to suit our needs.  I didn't hack anything up to strip the shell.  

The price is free, I just need it to go away soon as I need space for the winter for the new car.  I do have a clean PA title in my name that matches the VIN on the car.  The car is not, and has not been on fire.  If I don't get any solid interest soon then it will sadly go to the scrapper, but I hope it can save someone some time and money and keep these parts alive.  

abbottcd at the gmails is the best way to reach me. 

Picture gallery, taken tonight:  Google image gallery

If it comes with that pretty little red car in the background, I'm interested.....

So sad to see that car go.  Great memories.

i am in DC.

and that cage looks nice. 

do you have a deadline for the car to be gone from your premises? 

I'm open to discussion, it can sit on my utility trailer under a tarp for a bit without offending my neighbors.   

This screams radical challenge build.

Bye bye little civic. You will be missed! 

To be clear, that's a complete front suspension less shocks and steering that you're saying comes with it as well?

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To be clear, that's a complete front suspension less shocks and steering that you're saying comes with it as well?

The steering is all there and still together,  the only thing in the front that is not included are springs/shock assemblies.  The only brake components left are the booster and 15/16 master and all of the hard lines which are all intact. 
 

I kept it apart as I was going to have to get the shell on top of my 5x10 utility trailer so wanted it light weight, but if going into a normal trailer I could have it back together roughly in under an hour and then the front would roll. 
 

There is no rear suspension at all, saved it all for the new car, but most any 88-00 civic or 90-01 Integra will fit in its place.