Thanks to everyone for the quick and positive replies. They all fall into what I have read and heard elsewhere. While I have had those V-8 Fords I did have to row my Porsches around with the gear lever, they don't run like much below 3500. But I am sick of chasing all over the world for parts and pieces then giving a credit card number to a guy named Wolfgang for some rusted German sheet metal. At any rate I have yet to ride in one but I might lose control of my faculties more than I have already. I do not intend for a "Stook" (as you folks call them) to be the only vehicle. Unfortunately that role will be shared by my Volvo 850 as soon as I bail it out of the shop with a burnt valve!! "This never happens" sez my Volvo guy. But I gotta make this car last to make the Honda an economic reality.