Whether you are a car enthusiast, or a rural mail/postal carrier, we are happy to assist all of your needs. Having a team stationed in Japan allows us access to Japan’s very large dealer network and guarantees the highest quality JDM imports in the Country. We have partnered up with a family owned Japanese Car Dealership who have over 85 years of experience. We thoroughly inspect each JDM vehicle before purchase and all JDM vehicles are serviced before making their way to the United States. The JDM ads for the early CR-V featured copyrighted music by Billy Joel or Elton John and thus can't be embedded here.Here at ATL JDM, we strive to offer high quality JDM Imported vehicles for sale.ĪTL JDM does not operate like many other JDM Importers in the United States who purchase JDM vehicles sight unseen. Perhaps the engine or transmission finally gave up after the equivalent of more than 16 trips around the Earth's equator and the owner couldn't or wouldn't pay for repairs. Why did it end up in a place like this, after 22 reliable high-mile years of service? It appears that it broke down on a San Francisco Bay Area freeway and was towed off by the Bay Area Freeway Service Patrol. Someone had bought the one out of today's Junkyard Gem by the time I arrived, but I already own one that I grabbed from another junked CR-V. The top-grade 4WD SE got a slushbox at no extra cost.Ī clever feature of the early CR-V was this cargo-area cover that unfolded into a picnic table.
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Speed-crazed Civic owners often grab these engines for a cheap power upgrade, though most junkyard shoppers would think twice about buying this one after a glance at the odometer.Īn automatic transmission was standard equipment in the 2001 CR-V 2WD LX, while the 4WD LX and 4WD EX trim levels got a five-speed manual (the automatic was an extra $800 for those two, about $1,379 today). Under the hood, a B20 DOHC straight-four engine rated at 146 horsepower and 133 pound-feet of torque. The list price was $18,750, or about $32,321 in 2023 dollars.Īs is the case with most extreme-high-mile vehicles I find in car graveyards, the interior in this one looks pretty good. It's a tall Civic at heart, the successor to the Civic Wagovans of the 1980s. This one is an entry-level 2WD LX, with front-wheel drive. The first-generation CR-V was sold here for the 1997 through 2001 model years, and its chassis was derived from that of the sixth-generation Civic. I've probably walked right by many more such cars, but Honda only started using six-digit odometers here in 1981.
This is the sixth discarded Honda I've found that traveled better than 400,000 miles during its life, joining a list that includes a 1983 Accord, a 1988 Accord, another 1988 Accord, a 1991 Accord and a 1996 Civic. Most other U.S.-market Honda and Acura models had gone to electronic odometers by the time this car was built, but the 1997-2001 CR-V has an old-fashioned mechanical unit that can be read without powering up the car's ECU. Here's a first-gen CR-V with an impressive final number showing on its odometer, found in a Northern California boneyard recently.
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Junkyard Gems are all about automotive history, of course, so I set out to shoot some interesting examples of the early Toyota RAV4 and Honda CR-V in their final parking spots (a first-gen Ford Escape appeared in this series a few years back).
Several readers have suggested that I document some early compact crossover SUVs during my junkyard travels, making the point that these little truck-influenced machines went on to squeeze most small hatchbacks and sedans out of the showrooms and are thus historically significant.
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