as a matter of fact, I do!

...can't locate it right now though .

i DO remember though, that it was ALL of the S2000's made in 99' and shipped over here....and possibly as far as march of 2000.

i will try to find the article!

 

I checked my VIN to verify that I'd remembered correctly, and I was off by a year (I was thinking it was Dec. 99 and it was Dec. 00) so my car is a late car rather than an early car. Still, this is interesting stuff, so if you can find the article you should post it.

You do realize that all S2000's are hand assembled, right? Each engine is also assembled by an individual, and your VIN can be tracked back to find the name of the guy who assembled the engine. LOL, not that Honda will give you the information, but they can trace any failures back to the guy that put the engine together if they see a pattern or anything.

Were the very first cars actually hand made, or were they just hand assembled like all the others?

 

Interesting stuff, I did not know that

Now, I still can't find the article...so I am not completely sure...but I believe the 99's were hand made as well to being hand assembled.

I believe how it talked about how honda has originally not planned to make this car production, and keep its numbers very low, but there was such an overwhelming demand...they had to start making more faster...hence why they almost immediatly stoped being hand made.

but again... i guess you will just have to take my word for it until I can locate the damn thing

 

A "hand made" car body is made by hand rather than using stamped panels, and a "hand made" piston would be one that was cast or forged by hand, rather than using produciton machinery or CNC. I suspect what you had read referred to the original show car, which was probably a one-off. The pre-production prototypes might have had some of their parts made by hand too, but I don't think that's the case with any of the cars that have been sold to the public. If that's not the case I'm sure there are lots of us who'd like to see the article you have ... LOL, so get busy and find it.

We keep talking about starting a thread discussing the history of the S2000, but if anyone has actually started the thread I've totally missed it. I haven't started it because I'm afraid it will turn into another AP1 vs AP2 thread.

Do you remember which magazine the article was in? Somebody else might have a copy.