# April Fools: Do-It-Yourself Honda Fit

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/april-fools-do-it-yourself-honda-fit/84490>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [April 6, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/april-fools-do-it-yourself-honda-fit/84490 "2014-04-06T03:30:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![jesmed1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jesmed1/32/2097_2.png) [@jesmed1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jesmed1)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/april-fools-do-it-yourself-honda-fit/84490/1 "2014-04-06T03:30:37Z")

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Just saw this Honda April Fool’s video and it’s pretty clever, subtly poking fun at the hipster-organic-DIY movement:

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**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/april-fools-do-it-yourself-honda-fit/84490/2 "2014-04-06T03:47:39Z")

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It looked like they were building it in their apartment. I wonder how they will get it through the front door. As silly as that seems, people have been know to build boats in their basement just do discover that they can’t get it out.

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**Author:** ![jesmed1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jesmed1/32/2097_2.png) [@jesmed1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jesmed1)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/april-fools-do-it-yourself-honda-fit/84490/3 "2014-04-06T03:57:29Z")

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That reminds me of the Collyer brothers, a famous pair of hoarders in New York City where my dad grew up. After their deaths, their brownstone apartment was found crammed floor to ceiling with junk, including a Model T Ford.

> **[Collyer brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers)**
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> Homer Lusk Collyer (November 6, 1881 – March 21, 1947) and Langley Wakeman Collyer (October 3, 1885 – c. March 9, 1947), known as the Collyer brothers, were two American brothers who became infamous for their bizarre natures and compulsive hoarding. For decades, the two lived in seclusion in their Harlem brownstone at 2078 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of 128th Street) where they obsessively collected books, furniture, musical instruments, and myriad other items, with booby traps set up in corri Si...

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**Author:** ![dagosa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/dagosa/32/9837_2.png) [@dagosa](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dagosa)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/april-fools-do-it-yourself-honda-fit/84490/4 "2014-04-06T18:28:23Z")

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Heck, I would like the see the real cost break down of doing it this ways. You first would have to build a well stocked garage !
