Yahoo Autos Junkyard Gem: 1996 Honda Accord LX Wagon
The American Honda Motor Company started selling a wagon version of the Accord for the 1991 model year, four years after Toyota introduced the Camry wagon here. While the long-roof Accord gained a devoted following of American owners, sales were never very strong; the introduction of the new CR-V here in 1997 coincided with the Accord wagon getting the axe in North America (production of a wagon version for other markets continued for quite a while after that). Here's one of the last of the American Accord wagons, found in a yard just south of Denver.
There are 326,197 miles on the odometer, which is impressive for an Accord of this era (though I've found four discarded Accords with better than 400,000 miles on the clock: an '88 with 626k, an '88 with 513k, a '91 with 435k, and an '83 with 411k.
As is usually the case with high-mile cars in junkyards, this one has a well-cared-for interior. Why is it here, then?
The main reason is this crash damage on the right front, which looks like a T-bone incident that probably damaged the right front suspension.
There's rust, too, which probably helped convince the insurance company to just total this car.
High Plains Colorado isn't a very rusty place, since road salt is seldom used here and the humidity tends to be in the single digits, but this car appears to have spent some time in a more corrosive environment.
