My wife and I bought a 1987 Honda Civic off her brother for $200. We got it cheap because it didn't pass smog. When I went to look the car over, in order to determine why, I jacked up the car and went to look at the catalic converter. When I got under the car, I noticed some very nice redneck work connecting the shifter to the shift linkage. The civic has a manual transmission; the way the shifter is attached to the transmission is by a rod that connects to the shifter on one end and the transmission on the other. Normally the shifter is connected to the rod by a bolt, but what I found when I looked under my car was that the shifter was connected to the rod with an allen wrench and safety wire wound around both ends. I later learned that this was a road-side fix from a few years back. Amazing that it lasted this long. Also explains why the shifter was so sloppy.
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