20 Years in a River Makes This $8,500 Acura NSX One Hell of a Project

These days, a first-generation Acura NSX is going to easy outgo astatine slightest $50,000. Probably more. Especially if you privation 1 that doesn’t person a ton of miles connected it. So you mightiness beryllium amazed to perceive that a 1990 Acura NSX with lone 39,000 miles connected the odometer precocious sold for $8,500. And no, I didn’t mistakenly permission a zero disconnected that price. Eight 1000 and 5 100 United States dollars. You mightiness besides presume there’s a catch, and you would beryllium correct. The Acura NSX successful question spent 20 years astatine the bottommost of a river.

CarScoops reports that the river-dwelling NSX was precocious sold by LSX Salvage for an incredibly debased $8,500 aft divers recovered it successful 2019 portion looking for a antithetic car. Apparently, it had been stolen 20 years agone earlier being dumped successful the river. And arsenic you tin see, it’s precise overmuch worse for the wear. The motor is missing, the windows are broken, the A-pillar’s been damaged and the full car is filled with muck and much than a fewer plants. But, you know, different than that, it’s inactive successful beauteous bully condition.

Believe it oregon not, Road & Track really recovered the caller owner, Jay Bozeman, 1 of the co-founders of Helix Auto Works, and apparently, helium plans to get it backmost moving again. But Bozeman’s inactive not definite whether to effort to afloat reconstruct it oregon crook it into a way car.

“It’s beauteous savable but for each the evident worldly like, the engine’s astir apt trashed, the transmission’s astir apt trashed, wiring’s astir apt trashed,” Bozeman told Road & Track. “But the assemblage panels are each aluminum truthful they’re not going to rust.” He’s besides not enactment disconnected by the harm to the A-pillar, telling R&T, “There’s immoderate harm that occurred aft it was pulled retired of the river, astatine the A-pillar. But we person leads connected donor parts for that.”

We’re not definite this is the smartest bargain anyone’s ever made, astatine slightest from a fiscal perspective. But we bash admit that there’s idiosyncratic retired determination who’s brainsick capable to effort to rescue this poor, neglected NSX. After all, it ne'er asked to walk the bulk of its beingness astatine the bottommost of a river. It deserves a 2nd accidental astatine life.