20+ Yrs Later Back In An Integra

[Shadowhunter]

Man where to begin...
I've owned every Generation of Integra.
88 RS, 91 GS, 95 GSR, 2003 RSX Type S
I used to be really active on the Team Integra forums in Massachusetts back in the day, which seems like a pretty dead forum these days, particularly for this Gen 5 platform.

It's been over 20 years since I was driving the Integra in the top picture, and so much in my life has changed.
Some things however never change.
Thanks Acura for bringing back the Integra, and particularly for making the Type S.
Back then, adding a turbo to one of these was considered an extreme modification.
Now it comes that way straight from the factory.
I've felt out of place in every car I've driven since my RSX Type S, now I'm back home to where it all started.
Cheers to old friends from new years.
It's good to be back.

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[StingertimeNC]

Good stuff man! Such a fun car.

 

[Underdog]

Welcome! Love the apex blue!

 

[debianx]

Welcome back. Also a fellow ABP ITS owner and I hadn't driven an Integra in 20+ years until getting my ITS.

 

[koatic]

Right on man!!!
ABP here too and yes my purchase was originally one of nostalgia.
But now this is the favorite of all the cars I have owned over the years.
I still have my 93 civic hatch with jam b18c swap that I am now thinking about selling cause I just don’t drive it anymore cause the ITS is SOOO darn fun to drive.

 

[ChromaPop]

37 years between mine, as the only other one I owned was a 1987 Acura Integra RS 3-door Manual bought new. Enjoy!

 

[TwinSkrullDesign]

Congrats! Love the Apex Blue and tried to get one, but ended up with the Liquid Carbon…still a win win.

 

[Shadowhunter]

Wow! Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. Stoked to see all the other ABP owners on here.
I'm pretty sure I picked up the last 2024 ABP in the country.
Almost 300 miles on the clock so far, looking forward to dumping the oil at 600 and opening this thing up finally. Just installed a FitcamX today and hardwired the Uniden R4 radar detector, Two must haves in my opinion.

 

[Shadowhunter]

Welcome back. Also a fellow ABP ITS owner and I hadn't driven an Integra in 20+ years until getting my ITS.

It's good to be back! I'm coming off a modded Ford Focus ST for the last 7yrs.
Great car, but this ITS is on a whole other level. Happy to be back in a Japanese(ish) car finally.

 

[Shadowhunter]

Right on man!!!
ABP here too and yes my purchase was originally one of nostalgia.
But now this is the favorite of all the cars I have owned over the years.
I still have my 93 civic hatch with jam b18c swap that I am now thinking about selling cause I just don’t drive it anymore cause the ITS is SOOO darn fun to drive.

Definitely miss my 95 GSR. Was my favorite car of all time up until this one I think.
I'm coming from owning a Ford Focus ST for the last 7yrs. It was a great and fun car, and while I was nostalgic to own another Integra, I also figured it was time to upgrade while I could still get good money for the ford and get what I'm sure is probably one of the last manual turbo hatchbacks ever made.

 

[Shadowhunter]

37 years between mine, as the only other one I owned was a 1987 Acura Integra RS 3-door Manual bought new. Enjoy!

WOW! What a time capsule! Really brings me back to see a Gen 1.
Really enjoyed that car until I hit some black ice and slid right into a tree, enter the Gen 2 that you saw that I painted blue. Must feel interesting going from a clean gen 1 from so long ago to something that could technologically fly Apollo 13 to the moon now. Beautiful ride!

 

[Shadowhunter]

Congrats! Love the Apex Blue and tried to get one, but ended up with the Liquid Carbon…still a win win.

Almost ended up with a black one in TX because I couldn't find any ABP.
I'm fairly certain this was the last 2024 ABP in the country.
I got a better deal that the one in TX, because strangely no one wanted to buy this car, so I got it 4.6k below MSRP from a Acura dealer in FL.
Pretty happy with his color choice, but I wouldn't have been sad with black either.

 

[koatic]

I got a better deal that the one in TX, because strangely no one wanted to buy this car, so I got it 4.6k below MSRP from a Acura dealer in FL.

lol, from my point of view that’s 4.6k worth of free mods for you!!

 

[ChromaPop]

WOW! What a time capsule! Really brings me back to see a Gen 1.
Really enjoyed that car until I hit some black ice and slid right into a tree, enter the Gen 2 that you saw that I painted blue. Must feel interesting going from a clean gen 1 from so long ago to something that could technologically fly Apollo 13 to the moon now. Beautiful ride!

So true. And I bought that gen 1 for $11,000 exactly brand new. Check out the attached image to see how much that is in today's dollars, and it is about the price of a standard Integra A Spec today, yet so much more car now! Those of us that often say how expensive cars have become, well not really.

 

[Shadowhunter]

lol, from my point of view that’s 4.6k worth of free mods for you!!

Haha 100% facts. Though I still owe 16k on this thing so want to pay that off first before I do any bigger mods past a motor mount probably.

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