1985 test drive: A/T Engineering's hotter Honda CRX | #TBT

As many autocrossers already know (especially those who run C or E stock), Honda's new CRX has become the car to beat. The 1.5 liter CRX was so successful at this year's SCCA nationals that it has been bumped up two classes, from its original E stock classification into C stock. In fact, this new Honda has become so highly …

This article is not helping my desire for a vintage hot hatch. Something 1600cc or smaller, not like my GTI with its big, low revving 1.8.

I remember driving up to A/T Engineering in the late 80s and buying parts from Serge for my Civic 1200 autocross car.

I think I bought a header, coil, sway bars, and some other odds and ends. They were definitely race oriented parts. You needed to be ready to notch the frame here or there and accept some sketchy mounting brackets for the sway bars, but I think that there were only two places in the country at the time that were selling performance parts for the 1200s, and Serge was a nice guy and pretty helpful.

King Motorsports was the other place that had parts for the 1200, but I couldn't afford the shipping. I think Jackson Racing sold early Civic stuff, but mainly for the CVCCs.

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Kamei front spoiler? (Please say yes.)