From the May 1985 issue of Car and Driver. Okay, so we've earned a reputation for nutball project cars. Car and Driver's past is checkered with so many Pontiac-engined Jaguars, Rambler Classic racers, ...

Racing Beat out of Orange County, California, helped build this particular CRX, but they were more ... The front-wheel-drive car was a hit, with Honda selling nearly 400,000 of them throughout ...

Conveniently, Honda had two recently wrecked Accords, and had somehow not tired of this project, so Racing Beat ... so initially the CRX just feels like a nice, period-modded car, with cushy ...

The rear engine uses the entire subframe, engine, transaxle, suspension components, and brakes, slotted in behind the seats.

I'm a big fan of the first-generation Honda CRX, as well as all members of the third-generation Civic family, having owned quite a few of the gas-sipping two-seaters. These cars rusted to ...