Importing the useful and the mundane again..
On the contrary regarding the topic of importing things from Japan, this particular delivery was more car parts than brochures – not to say that there weren’t brochures received.
To start, this is an incomplete set of three “swirls” hudcaps which was packaged somewhat poorly. I could either chalk it up to the poor packaging or poor condition of the wheels, but the auction had not shown the rear-facing side of the hudcaps. Of the three, two had tabs that were completely broken off, probably rendering it unusable. Hotgluing it could be an option, not one I am going to try yet.
These NGK RC-HE64 coil plugs for Honda D and B-series engines were available at nearly ¥3,000 below the usual pricing, though it would take one look to know that these are old stock; the plastic parts are weathered as is the condition of the box.
A pair of original Honda keys. While most of these keys are sold for roughly ¥2,000 – ¥3,000 for a single key, and a similar situation in Malaysia where they cost around S$30, this pair of keys sold at the same price was hard to miss. (The shipping adjustment of domestic shipping was, in fact, hard to ignore)
This is a standard footrest for the EG and EK-generation Civic. I bought this with the idea of adding it into my car, just to find out that the floormats added in by the previous owner was poorly cut, and was covering the actual footrest. Not helping was the fact that the footrest for the Civic is mounted higher than what I would have expected.
I may still use these as they are in better condition than the existing one in the car.
These two pieces are extra add-ons to my air filter box to “complete” the intake system. Normally on systems with the air filter box, this air filter intake duct and resonator is usually discarded after replacing the stock filter box.
These should be compatible between D and B-series engines as is the rest of the air intake system. These were taken from a Honda Civic Coupe (EJ1) scrapped for parts.
I was kind of anal to the point that I went looking for an original fuel cap. Fuel caps are shared with many cars and sometimes many manufacturers – the one in the Lotus Elan is actually an identical piece used in some Japanese cars of the era and beyond.
The primary reason I sought for a replacement was because the existing one in Feriko actually had the top knob broken off. I have neither seen or heard of such a phenomenon happening, but it did mean that I would have to find a replacement.
As fussy as ever, finding a pair of Mitsuba Alpha II horns that was extracted from a Honda Civic SiR-II (EG6) is, like the fuel cap, copiously unnecessary. But I guess one will need to be fussy like this if the goal is to make the car is original as possible.
The existing pair of horn is an off-the-shelf item of unknown provenance, not to mention they strictly weren’t the best.
Onto the usual deposit of random things that don’t really serve any ideal purpose, this pretty obscure and no-doubt rare Honda Verno (by Paris) bag was an interesting find on Fleamarket. As a business bag, it is actually quite usable to keep documents, which in my use-case would be related EG-generation Civic brochures and related material.
Shared in a different Fuel for Thought article, a collection of four Singapore Motoring magazines were available on auctions. Almost the entirety of Motoring magazine is lost media, more so the pre-1992 entries.
What felt like fate was finding the Lotus Elan issue, scrolling through the seller’s inventory and discovering a few other issues, all roughly between 1989 to 1990. I really hope to get these scanned at some point, after solving the light glaring problem and getting the pages to not keep folding.
The rest of the items were more EG-generation brochures, mostly duplicate Honda Access catalogs. I will sell these at a later date, so if you do want one, drop me a message on Instagram!
The assorted collection of Mugen and Honda S2000 brochures was a steal, these normally being snagged up by other collectors and reaching close to or over ¥10,000. These were won for a fraction of that amount, Lotus brochure excluded.
Time to finally call it quits for brochures. I’ve scanned only a select few due to their ease to scan, and with the backlog piling up rapidly from each shipment, its way overdue to ease up.
~Efini
Read more: Fuel for Thought: The other brochure haul
