The Silver Bullet
Yeah, silver EJ coupes are common, except for those packing CTR power underhood.
By Brian McGurk, Photos by Ben “Stunna Ben” Howard

Silver EJ Civics aren’t exactly rare. A love affair with the future classic drove Kevin Spanier, of Florence, Ky., to build his own ’96 Vogue Silver Metallic coupe in hopes of setting it apart from the rest of the metallic-clad pack. “It’s always cool to have a matching car and bike,” Kevin says, when asked about his passion for silver. His first BMX bike was silver, which instilled the desire to build a clone-colored EJ. Those ambitions were almost derailed one evening when his first freshly swapped coupe was driven off the road and subsequently sat in a mangled mass of metal. In a stroke of luck the just-installed B16B swap come out unscathed. The encounter rattled him enough to rethink his plan though and aim for something a bit less fragile and a lot more durable, so the hunt was on for another coupe. After a year of searching the perfect choice presented itself.
    Kevin is no slouch and had amassed a pile of parts while in search of his new coupe, so with the car in his driveway the tear down and rebuild began. He set an ambitious goal for himself: to debut the car at NOPI Atlanta, which was just four weeks away. The bay was shaved clean of studs and OEM grommets and caps were used to fill each hole and prep the space for that ubiquitous B16B. Pick up a copy of the August, 2008 issue of Honda Tuning for more.