Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The first 3rd-gen Honda Accord coupe ever made—VIN 000001—just picked up a few more miles. Check out why late 1980s Honda was at the top of its game.
Big thanks to @Honda for pulling this car out of its museum and letting us have a go to celebrate the Accord's 50th anniversary!
#cars #carshorts #cartok #honda #accord #coupe #1980s #80scars #popup #vintagecars #history #japanesecars #carculture
The first 3rd-gen Honda Accord coupe ever made—VIN 000001—just picked up a few more miles. Check out why late 1980s Honda was at the top of its game.
Big thanks to @Honda for pulling this car out of its museum and letting us have a go to celebrate the Accord's 50th anniversary!
#cars #carshorts #cartok #honda #accord #coupe #1980s #80scars #popup #vintagecars #history #japanesecars #carculture





![GM said it destroyed this revolutionary engine. We found a survivor
20 years ago, GM built a revolutionary V8 engine that couldve rewritten the history of modern trucks. Then the company went bankrupt, and the prototypes disappeared. Until now.
[Read more about The Drives hunt for the lost prototype here: https://www.thedrive.com/news/we-found-gms-lost-duramax-v8-prototype-that-couldve-reinvented-modern-trucks ]
The story of General Motors lost Duramax V8, known as the LMK internally, has been one of the automotive worlds greatest modern mysteries. Just before the Great Recession, GM threw everything it had at developing a world-beating diesel motor for its half-ton pickups. Featuring advanced tech that was far ahead of its time, like a hot vee turbo setup, a 29,000-psi common rail fuel system, a compacted graphite iron block, and unusual split-cap main bearings, the 4.5L LMK V8 was sized to drop directly into a Silverados engine bay, or really anywhere a traditional small-block V8 would fit.
With all that, the LMK delivered 310 horsepower, 510 pound-feet of torque, and 25% better fuel economy than GMs gas V8s. GM knew it had a winner on its hands... but in 2009, right before it was supposed to launch, the company went bankrupt and was forced to kill the project. The LMK never saw the light of day.
Officially, all the prototypes were destroyed. But over the last decade, rumors persisted that at least one surviving engine had escaped the purge and made it into private hands. So a couple of years ago, we started work on tracking it down.
We followed the trail for months, hitting dead end after dead end, watching sources pop up with bits of evidence then disappear on us. We worked every connection we had to find the truth. And then, out of nowhere, we received an email from a stranger on the other side of the planet with three fateful words: I got one.
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