Had a small oil leak at the oil pump gasket over the winter, but it only took me 1/2 hour and a $4 O-ring to fix. It has never let me down and the performance is amazing for such an old car. To celebrate the fact that I'll probably own this car another 10 years, I had it painted for $1000 by another guy I found on Craigslist a few month ago and it looks like new again! I've driven it from Colorado to California, all over Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, in all kinds of weather, including ski trips to the mountains. Contrary to other reviews, the engine does *not* need to come … out of the car to do this. So I spent 2 weekends taking the heads off, and while I was in there I put in new belts, hoses, and a rebuilt alternator and starter from Napa. It had 196K miles on it and needed head gaskets, which the owner was honest about, and the paint was a little faded. Unlike many of the wild Japanese-market car ads of the 1980s, Honda pitched the JDM Legend in a most dignified manner.I bought my 4DR Legend LS from its original owner on Craigslist. It's the performance sedan making European automakers uncomfortable.
The body shows no rust, as you'd expect in California, but the paint hasn't fared so well over its 33 years. Most super-high-mile cars I see in junkyards aren't very trashed-looking, presumably due to owners who took good care of them for decades (I do see the occasional exception to this rule, of course). Other than the worn-out front seats, the interior in this car looked fairly decent when it arrived in its final parking space. This car has a 2.5-liter DOHC rated at 151 horsepower, while the 1987 Legend coupe got a 2.7 making 161 horses.
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Starting in the early 1990s, though, nearly all U.S.-market Legends had slushboxes (though the manual could be had all the way through the final Legends of 1995).Įvery Legend ever made came with a V6 engine. It's hard to imagine a prestigious luxury sedan with three pedals these days, but plenty of the early Legends were sold here with the five-speed manual transmission. Todays Acura TLX is as big as a 1991-1995 Acura Legend. It began as just a 4-door sedan in 1986, with a 2-door coupe joining the lineup in 1987, along with the L and LS trim levels. This one didn't quite make it to 300,000 miles, but 281,032 miles blows away the readings I see on most 1980s junkyard cars not made by Mercedes-Benz. Along with the Integra, the Acura Legend was the other of Acuras earliest models ever manufactured in North America. Offered in two- and four-door variants with V6 power. This Acura Legend sedan has low mileage and has been driven 90 less than average on an annual basis, based on 3,876 similar sedans for sale in the Fletcher area (including Upstate SC & Asheville area) between Augand today.
Despite this, the Legend offered exceptional value as its model range was priced lower than comparable German cars. While the Legend had the same underlying chassis structure and engine family as the Rover 800 (known as the Sterling in North America), the Honda-grade build quality and non- Lucas electrical components of the Legend meant that it outlasted its Rover cousins by decades and hundreds of thousands of miles. From its inception in 1986, the Acura Legend reigned as one of the best luxury automotive experiences to come from Japan by offering a combination of performance, style, and technological innovation that few cars could match.
The early Legend sold very well in California, and that's where I found this high-mile '87 a couple of months back. That was quite a leap for a company that had been selling tiny cars with two-cylinder motorcycle engines just 15 years earlier, but the 1973-1985 period had been spectacularly good times for Honda. Acura shoppers could buy a luxed-up, more powerful Civic (the Integra) that year, while the real high-rollers went for a smooth-looking, V6-powered luxury sedan co-developed by Rover and Honda: the Legend. Honda beat Toyota and Nissan in the race to bring a luxury marque to North America, introducing us to the Acura brand for the 1986 model year. Junkyard Gem: 1987 Acura Legend Sedan One of the first Acuras sold in the United States, now retired after nearly 300,000 miles
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