Fitting the wheels required some trickery and a lot of help from negative camber adjustments. Both front and rear fenders have been significantly altered to house an aggressive set of staggered 16x8/9.5-inch JLine wheels. A BackYard Special front lip and rear duckbill spoiler serve as the only aftermarket additions to the body while OEM J-spec lighting all-around give it some Japanese chic. Outside, the entire 19 year-old chassis has been massaged, door dings and minor damage repaired before being sprayed the ever-classic Honda Championship White. Hondas assembled on the island are built to be clean street cruisers and Joshua's is just that. You'll rarely find extensive race-bred Hondas there because it's not what they are about. The Civic itself is a very well-executed build that represents the clean and simple style that Hawaiian enthusiasts have come to be known for. If for whatever reason we can't get a hold of the owner, we then have to proceed to use the power of the worldwide web to dig up any information we can on the owner and their car-(begin sarcasm) the part we love most (end sarcasm).ĭevoid of any sort of backstory, all we are left with are visual depictions of a story left untold. In those instances, it is our job to get in touch with them to see if they can give us some sort of story about their build. Some tech sheets are filled out in an incredibly detailed fashion, with every important aspect of the build documented, but sometimes you get little to no information at all, with the questions we ask responded to in one or two words. These tech sheets open the lines of communication between the owner and the writers for the magazine, and usually includes every important piece of info you'll need, from knowing which parts were used, right up to the entire back story on how the car came together. We see a car, find the owner, arrange for the car to be shot and have them fill out various forms, one of them being the 'tech sheet'. How these features come together before they hit print is pretty predictable. In the years that I've been writing for Super Street, we've seen it all all types of cars, different styles of tuning and getting to know each personality that makes up our crazy world. Breaking the fourth wall usually means that you're being pulled out of an imaginary scenario but in the world of automotive publication, what you're seeing and reading is very real. (Still clueless? Clearly you're too young to know what SBTB or who Kelly Kapowski is.) What I'm trying to do today is something similar-sort of. If you don't know what the hell the 'fourth wall' is, try to remember an episode of Saved by the Bell when Zach Morris freezes time, turns to the audience and speaks directly to them-that's what's considered 'breaking the fourth wall'. Let's break the 'fourth wall', so to speak, for a different twist on what you're used to reading.

Instead of going the traditional route of telling you a story behind an enthusiast's build, we're going to try something a little different. We know that his name is Joshua Antolin and he hails from the great state of Hawaii-and that's about it. To be completely honest with you, there isn't very much we know about the owner of this Championship White 1993 Civic CX.

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