“Kelly’s car has been cared for very well and changed many parts to new ones.”
If you were ever after a slice of surf memorabilia wrapped up in the genius that is the Japanese Kei car, well, you’re not going to stroll past Kelly Slater’s 1990 Honda Street four-wheel-drive.
Kei cars, also known as “kei-jidosha” or “light automobiles,” are a unique category of small vehicles in Japan with specific size and engine displacement limitations set by the government.
The dang things are everywhere in the land of stagnant real estate, millions of made over the years, and Kelly’s has a wheelbase of 75 inches, a 660 cc engine with a top speed of sixty-five miles an hour. It is, if you need perspective, the size of a refrigerator laid on its side, yet surprisingly spacious inside, fitting four adults inside real easy.
Kelly’s Honda has a miserly 24,000 miles on the clock, is painted a gorgeous two-tone navy blue and white and a with a grey-and-off white cloth interior.
Room for sleds, your pals, and it ain’t gonna faint if you get it near a little sand, although it is recommended to replace those tiny 12-inch wheels with something that’s gonna give you clearance and bite.
Price? Twelve gees.
But who knows? What is the buyer can’t get finance? Or there’s a change of mind?
You gonna buy?
And why Kelly selling such a pretty thing?
