magnus_drives
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I just returned from a holiday with my wife - two weeks in Japan for our anniversary. I'm sifting through >4000 photos, and I'll share some of our car happenings when they're ready. In the meantime, I returned home to find that my personalized license plate has arrived.
Why "E9 CTR"? It's the plate that the car wore in the UK. Credit to the previous owner Mo for the second image below:
It's fun to think of the lives these cars have lived, and in the instance of this Civic it has lived on three continents and worn a number of different license plates. To be able to run the same plate on two of those continents is special and helps form a continuous thread. I did something similar with my Cayman, matching (as best as I could given California's rules) the temporary plate it wore during my European Delivery.
Two very minor adjustments today - fitted a Mugen oil cap picked up in Japan, and professionally re-died my faded steering wheel stitching. I.e., I used a red Sharpie on it.
^just a quarter of the stitches done in that image to show the before and after. The stitches soak up the ink and you can easily wipe away any overflow from the leather, great use of 5 minutes and the cost of a marker.
I went for a mid-day drive to break in the new license plate. I encountered a fellow Honda enthusiast, some rain, and some big thick clouds.
Why "E9 CTR"? It's the plate that the car wore in the UK. Credit to the previous owner Mo for the second image below:
It's fun to think of the lives these cars have lived, and in the instance of this Civic it has lived on three continents and worn a number of different license plates. To be able to run the same plate on two of those continents is special and helps form a continuous thread. I did something similar with my Cayman, matching (as best as I could given California's rules) the temporary plate it wore during my European Delivery.
Two very minor adjustments today - fitted a Mugen oil cap picked up in Japan, and professionally re-died my faded steering wheel stitching. I.e., I used a red Sharpie on it.
^just a quarter of the stitches done in that image to show the before and after. The stitches soak up the ink and you can easily wipe away any overflow from the leather, great use of 5 minutes and the cost of a marker.
I went for a mid-day drive to break in the new license plate. I encountered a fellow Honda enthusiast, some rain, and some big thick clouds.
