Collecting cars auction

[Papalazarou]

I know we have to careful what we discuss on here. Well at least we have to make fact based comments. But I thought this was interesting because you can ask the owner questions whilst the auction progresses. I am interested to see what a super low mileage early car makes and how well the format works.

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/1992-honda-nsx-1

Cheers,

James.

[Heineken]

It seems whenever I see and auction my eyes are caught by electronic and/or audio topics

The Bose stereo is not working, which is a common fault, but there are no other known electrical issues.

[Papalazarou]

It seems whenever I see and auction my eyes are caught by electronic and/or audio topics

Give it 10 years and nobody’s stereos will work. But for the sake of originality they will still be fitted. At least my AC controller works ��

[rkanaga]

Give it 10 years and nobody’s stereos will work. But for the sake of originality they will still be fitted. At least my AC controller works ��

Kaz fixed mine

[Papalazarou]

Sold for £76K + 6% = £80,560. Not bad considering the bidders don’t view the cars and there were a few outstanding questions with this one.

[duncan]

For those who think the motor trade is without humour -
https://www.listerclassics.com/listing/2005-Honda-NSX

[RedCarsGoFaster]

It seems whenever I see and auction my eyes are caught by electronic and/or audio topics

I listened to a podcast recently in which an American journalist recounted their experience of driving an NA1 NSX-R for the first time. They loved it, but apparently the km/h speedo was under-reading to the extent that they thought it was in mph.

"Aha," I thought "I know what that is . . . "


By comparison with the Ferrari and Porsche markets, the NSX market seems to be small enough/ordinary enough that the specialists and historians pass it by. Were these cars in an equivalent of those markets then there would be a tremendous hue and cry over matching engine and chassis numbers, original paint, whether the car was certified by a nebulous body validating that all of the accessories exactly match the spec sheet hewn into a stone tablet and installed into the frunk by a mythical superman, without which the car could not possibly be sold; there would be specialists aplenty to repair your VANOS, your cooling pipes, your bore-scoring, your wonky bearings, your cracked exhaust manifolds and your sticky buttons.

Yet for the NSX that doesn't happen. Those who know the issues in enough detail to comment on them seem to already own the cars.

I guess it's a further extension of the problem that's plagued the NSX its whole life - it just doesn't have the same kind of prestige that you get from having a horse on your badge.

[goldnsx]

'Matching numbers' is not so relevant in the Honda-world. Based on the silly (and proven wrong) statement of Enzo Ferrari that aerodynamics is for people who are not capable to build engines (haha), one would say a 'matching number' certificate is only needed for the junk engines build in the F- and P-cars of that aera. Moreoverthis, such cars are bought by people having very little technical clue or two left hands, to round that prejudice off. No wonder, they jump after x certificates to justify that THEIR object of desire is the best available toy out there. Of course, there are plenty of false certificates and false cars out there for sure. Thanks goodness, that kind of uncessary 'industry' can't evolve in the NSX-market.

[nigel]

Hoping to send my OEM radio over to Kaz and see if he will fix it up for me. I was able to find a working radio from a 2004 and going to install it. My original radio has quit doing anything but static but the c/d player is still in fine nick after it warms up.
Seems no one over here in the colonies can or will do the repair without doing some bodged up job or doing some “retro fit” rubbish for a stupid price.
If I have to pay a ton of the Queens best I want someone like the Kaz to do some work on it so I know it will have the best eyes and hands there.

Cheers
nigel

[Heineken]

Note that all radios will suffer and potentially succumb to capacitor leakage at some point in time. Since it's much easier to fix when it's not fatal yet I would get both radios fixed, if possible.