Junkyard Gem: 2005 Honda Accord, Hello Kitty Edition

A heavily customized 2005 Honda Accord sedan with many Hello Kitty items, found in a Denver self-service wrecking yard.

When you're a young city-dweller and your car is a generic 20-year-old sedan with the base engine, what do you do? You personalize it, of course, and that's what the final owner of this Accord LX did. An unfortunate rear-end collision sent this car to a Denver car graveyard, giving us an illustrative snapshot of a place and time in popular automotive culture.

It has air conditioning, a CD player with AUX input jack (a fairly rare feature in cars built before the late 2000s), an automatic transmission and a large helping of that legendary Accord reliability.

So, a shopping spree including pink spray paint, aftermarket accessories and many decals followed.

When you're a member of the Slow Car Club, you can be proud that your Accord doesn't have the 255-horse V6 under its hood.

Because genuine Hello Kitty wheels are very expensive, this car has regular 15-inch steelies painted pink.

But did you die?

One might apply this sentiment to the driver who crashed into this Accord and sent it to the junkyard.

It's worth fixing a three-year-old Accord when this happens, but not so much with a 19-year-old Accord.

When you own a McMansion like this one, you require the low depreciation of the 2005 Accord LX.

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