This Rhode Island tuner grafted on the front end of a 2014 Honda Civic Sedan to his 1998 Honda Civic Hatchback and it looks clean.
There was a time when tuners put on newer model front ends on their older model cars because creativity was the name of the game, there was no one to copy, and aero kits available for Japanese imports were few and far between. So when this 6th gen Civic popped up for sale with an 8th gen front end, it was early 2000s vibes all over again.
Check out a screenshot of his listing here and a tweet where I shared most of the photos below.
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9th gen Civic sedan front on a 6th gen Civic hatchback in RI. Real early 2000s vibes https://t.co/ZIQ1uJkMU3 pic.twitter.com/BWqjboTiIE
— Paulo Christmastide just kicked in yo Acoba (@ferio_252) January 1, 2020
This 1998 Honda Civic Hatchback started life with a bog-standard D-series engine and automatic transmission, still under the hood of this front end conversion. With 151,000 miles, it’s well past broken in.
As with all front end conversions, the devil is in the details, and this one honestly doesn’t look all that bad, it looks OK.
On a scale of 1-10, I’d give this hatchback a solid 7 because the execution is pretty darn good but it’s lacking that extra X-factor I usually see from Hondas with front end conversions.
I’m pretty sure those are replica wheels of some sort. Front end conversion Hondas always seemed to rock authentic wheels.
The fitment and overall stance is good and fits the attitude of this car.
I would’ve liked to see something more creative done with the rear end, perhaps a carbon fiber spoiler or at least a polished exhaust system.
As you can imagine, car enthusiats who didn’t grow up with front end conversions didn’t have the nicest comments on his post, but can you blame them?
Today’s car enthusiast scrolls through social media, picks and chooses what they like, paint matches whatever they ordered, and bolts everything together, calling it a build.
Front end conversions touched on a part of builds kids today can’t appreciate, creativity.
Props to this Civic owner and his one-of-a-kind hatch.
