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My EK9 sits patiently in the UK while it waits to turn 25 years old, at which point I can import it to the United States. Mine is a 2000 model year car. NHTSA requires that it be 25 years to the day, not just the year, which brings up an interesting point - I don't know when my car was...

Update: I saw my car and went for a nice drive. I wrote it up here: https://ek9.org/index.php?threads/road-trip-cornwall-in-my-new-to-me-ek9.80773/

Day 11: Chichester to Heathrow All good things must come to an end, and for us the holiday wrapped up with one final drive from Chichester to Heathrow. We waved farewell to the Civic, filthy and with 800 new miles on the odometer to show for our wonderful adventure. Chris treated the EK9 to a...

Days 9-10: Goodwood Revival I’m going to have to write a standalone report on the Revival. I am lucky to attend the Rolex Motorsport Reunion at Laguna Seca every year, but the Revival is simply on another level. The costumes, the commitment to theme, the level of racing are unmatched by any...

Day 8: Fowey to Chichester Friday was a straightforward driving day with a single constraint: we had tickets to enter Stonehenge at 2:30p. In my planning Google reported this as a 3-hour drive from Fowey, so we slept in and passed a leisurely morning in town. The snag about planning this trip...

Day 7: Cornwall loop [part 2/2, split up due to image limit] We planned to skip Land’s End, having read that it was a tourist trap, but the Minack Theatre is just around the corner so we popped in. After all, we'd come this far in the little Civic. Arriving just after 5p, the shops had closed...

Day 7: Cornwall loop [part 1/2, split up due to image limit] Thursday, our busiest day, started with a hiccup. Slight damage to the SD card made it unrecognizable to the camera, and I would not be able to take photos. After a bit of a scramble, we found a new card at HBH Woolacotts in Bodmin...

Super helpful, thank you. Looking at part pricing and availability in the UK vs the US, I’m planning to get as much as I can done on my car before it ships out of the UK in 2025.

Day 6: Camel trail from Bodmin to Padstow [disclaimer: limited Civic content] On Wednesday we woke up to clearer skies and some really lovely views of Fowey Harbour. More accurately, lovely views of Polruan across the water. (side note: I saw a lot of tuned T6s and Ford Transits...

Day 5: Bath to Fowey Tuesday was wet. I don’t think Mo drove this car much in the rain, because the wipers seemed to be toast. They did a nice job of smearing and streaking water on the front glass, but did eventually saturate and wipe enough to see which way I was going. I was really missing...

Day 4: Stratford-upon-Avon to Bath On Monday the road trip began in earnest. I drive a RHD car at home in California (R32 GTR) but I always have some nerves about switching to the other side of the road. I’ve driven in Japan and Australia and it requires deliberate thinking to override a...

Intro In August of 2021 I purchased a 2000 Civic Type-R in the UK. You can read about that here. I bought the car remotely with the help of a friend, who stores the car for me and keeps it registered, insured, and in good running order. The Civic won’t be legal for US import until 2025 so the...

Quick update - trip complete and we are home in California. The entire journey was incredible and I have started the long task of editing photos and compiling it all into a proper report. I’ll drop a link here to the trip summary when finished!

We’ve made it! I usually do a comprehensive write-up after I finish these trips, but I have some time at the hotel tonight so I want to share at least a couple photos. Fuller photo and trip report will follow. We landed in London on Friday and spent the weekend there visiting friends and...

Hi all, thank you for all of the suggestions. My wife and I fly out tomorrow from San Francisco to London. We'll see friends over the weekend, take the train out to Stratford-upon-Avon, and then start our trip to Cornwall on Monday! The overall outline is basically what I posted back in June, I...