Richie's 98 Honda Civic Type R - EP.24

Hey, and welcome to Right Hand Drive Guys.

Episode 24, the first interview in our live from IA series.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, so when I was at IA, we decided like in order for it to make it worth it for me togo down there, we needed to get interviews.

And so the first one that we did was with the man, the myth, the legend, Nashville.

Yeah.

Richie Capillion.

That's right.

Yeah.

He's the homie.

Yeah, and I actually thought it was Coupillin and Andrew thought Andrew and Aaron thoughtit was Capillion.

And so I actually asked Richie.

Yeah.

It's Capillion.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, you were right.

That's pretty cool.

So yeah, I sat down with Richie.

He was, you know, I've known Richie for solid 10, 13.

I don't know.

A bunch of years, you know, when I first came back to Nashville after the on thearmy and I had the civic type R with the yellow wheels, the yellow to E37s.

So I quickly met the PGK dudes because they were like the guys that were heavy and theHonda's.

Right, right.

Yeah.

And so Richie obviously, Honda guy, if you've never met him.

Big Honda guy.

Yeah.

And so his nickname was Nashville when I met him and he was like very, very popular onInstagram and stuff like at that time.

And he actually had the Nashville Instagram.

Right.

That was wild.

Yeah, from the rip he had the username Nashville on Instagram.

So he was, so if you think about it, anybody tagging at Nashville when they're down thereon whatever street, you know, they're actually tagging Richie.

Yeah.

So, you know, and so he was known as Nashville and I think eventually maybe he outgrewthat.

Right.

But like I still know him as Nashville.

Yeah.

And so he had, and I know you remember this car, but that red eG hatch.

Oh, yeah.

How?

Yeah.

Yeah, everybody knew that car.

I think he was in what magazine?

It was an S3.

Yeah.

James Evans shot it.

Yeah.

So, you know, and that was when that happened, he was in S3.

Like, I remember it was X amount of months after me and I was like, oh holy moly, like, that'spretty wild because S3 is actually from down there.

Right.

They're from George Atlanta.

So, yeah, that red hatch, like the thing that stood out the most about it and the thingthat I don't know, a lot of people were either attracted to it or hated it, right?

They loved it or hated because of the wheels.

Yeah.

Because it had the work led sleds on it.

The led sleds, yeah.

And it set off the car though.

Right.

Like made the car.

Yeah.

And like, I would have known what those wheels were if it weren't for that car.

And I'm sure it's made for a lot of other.

I'd never seen them.

Like, one of these off of Volkswagen or something like, what are these hubcats?

What's going on here?

No, so, you know, and Richie is a like really cool, like, like cool guy.

I don't know how to explain it.

He's very like calm, cool, like, very well spoken, like, you know, type of guy.

So, you know, we kind of hit it off quick and for a while after I moved away from Nashvillewhenever I'd come into town, you know, I kick it with Richie and whatever he's doing.

But I haven't been in a long time.

So, you know, it was really good to see him.

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

And he got a new car.

I know you knew about that.

Yeah, yeah.

His Civic Type R.

Yeah.

And so, he goes into detail in the interview about that.

Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Yeah.

A few months back, he actually hit me up and it was like, you know, looking for his CivicType R.

Like as he was selling his, his last Civic.

Yeah, his Hale's a hatch.

Yeah.

He was like in the process of selling that chase base or whatever.

And yeah, I told him to go through stack and that's actually who he ended up, you know,contacting and getting the whole thing, which we've covered stack plenty of times on thispodcast.

So, yeah, it's kind of, kind of cool, like, for sure.

Yeah, for sure.

For sure.

Yeah, that's really always the best when like you can, you know, assist a homie and justmake in their dreams come true or their next goal.

Yeah, for sure.

And like, I've no richie for dude, like, a while.

And like, I'm not even sure when I've really initially met him, but I do remember wheneverI first saw him posting on like 10 speed, the name Nashville.

He always came across like, I don't know, one of those like elitist type dudes were like,kind of rubs you the wrong way sometimes if you're just reading it, but like, if you don'tknow him, right, right.

But then I met him and like, you know, chopped a dog with him and he's like a cool, just chilldude, like he said, you know, and he's like one of those dudes that dude, you can talk aboutanything with him.

Yeah.

And like dude, he'll have you laughing and just doing the goofy a shit and like, I don'tknow, he's a really fun dude and like really chill.

And like, I think that's what's, what's so cool about him.

And he never comes out.

Yeah.

He's like, he's a tree.

And so yeah, same here, right?

Like he, because when the time that you're talking about on the forums, it was a lot of fakewheels and these guys that had real wheels, they were kind of like elitist dudes.

Well, because they were proud of like, you know, they spent that money, they sourced thosewheels and then you have these dudes coming in with these fake wheels pretending like theyare real.

Or just fake parts in general or fake whatever, right.

And so, you know, it's like, yeah, they're just like sticking up for their decisions.

Yeah, I'm not knocking, you know, but not in real parts.

Yeah.

I love him as much as anyone.

Like I would rather put real parts in my car.

But like back in the day when that whole thing started and like, I don't know, I feel likeit was a wave come through and there was just like everybody was being like that.

Yeah, yeah.

But like, you know, you meet him and it's like, okay, that's really not what this dude'sall about.

Yeah.

Pretty cool and like, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

And that's the same way I felt.

Yeah, just cool dude.

You can kick it with, chat anything like I remember one time we went over to his house andwe just watched the Isle of Man race thing for like hours just talking about shit, youknow, and I don't even really like motorcycle racing or watching it.

Right.

And I watched it for hours just because the dude is so cool and chill to talk to and speakingof, let's get right into it.

Let's get into his interview.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm, dude, ready to hear it.

Yeah.

So this is Richie Nashville, Capillion, live from my A.

Hey, welcome back to right hand drive guys live from import alliance summer meet 2023.

Today I got sitting with me, Richard Capillion.

A lot of people might know him as Nashville though if you've been around.

Hello.

What's up Richie?

Hey, thanks for coming through.

So I've known Richie for quite a while.

I've got some good memories that I'll definitely bring up with him.

But the reason why he's here today is because he just picked up a really sweet car.

A car I am very envious of.

Tell us a little bit about the car.

Yeah, so like anybody else, that was the car that was on my wall as a kid played it inGrains Rismo, built it a thousand times on Forza.

And I've always wanted it.

It's a 98 Civic Type R, the EK9 chassis.

So what like, what color is it?

Black.

So why?

Good question.

So, with my little bit of research before I acquired the car, I figured out that they madeabout 16,000 EK9s through the whole 97 to 2000.

It's really not many, really.

Not a lot.

Worldwide or Japan only.

So they only made them for Japan.

I figured out that they made 400 black in the total of the whole lifespan in about 300 silver.

So I wanted anything but white and black kind of landed in my lap.

So yeah, I mean, because yeah, everybody's got a white one.

I've had multiple white ones.

You see white ones everywhere.

I'd assume those numbers are in the high thousands comparatively.

Oh yeah, for sure.

So when you start looking for this, I mean, you're no stranger.

You've had right-and-drive cars.

You've had Honda's.

What was the process?

When you're like, I'm going to do it.

Where did you even start, really?

So the basics like everybody.

You look at Facebook, look at Instagram, Google it.

You try to find the one that's local.

There's a few, but none that I like.

So I had to reach out further and you start looking at local importers.

And I found out that there's a company called Stack that exports them.

And actually, Aaron's the one that told me that you used them, which I knew they were goingto be a legit company at that point.

Yeah.

Yeah, and then obviously subsequently, we ended up going there and it reaffirmed it thatlike they are really cool guys.

And it seems like by your car, they're also pretty dang good at it.

They're forcing them.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

And in my opinion, I think exporting it the way I did it and you do it is way better thanimporting it just because you can kind of tell them the parameters you want it to be in.

And then they'll match those parameters and go way beyond that.

And you have eyes in Japan that can look at the car, feel the car, tell you if it's legit,if it's rusted or you name it.

It's like being in Japan.

Yeah.

It's really like the second best thing.

And what I like about an exporter like stacked, you know, or the guy Trevor that I know is justthat they are charging you a certain fee, right?

They're not looking for the car that they can get the biggest come up on, which I thinkis a big difference between them and somebody who already has it locally.

They found the one that they could get the come up on.

So yeah, I definitely agree.

I think the way that we're doing it and working with these people that are already overthere is a much better option.

So, okay, so you, was this the first car that they found for you?

Would you go through with you?

Yeah, so I went, this is actually the second one.

So I found a total of three and they only put eyes on two because I'm very impatient, right?

And this time I didn't get let it get the best of me, thankfully, because I was going topull the trigger on a white one, which we just talked about on a white one.

But thankfully, Killian put his eyes on it, really told me that it was a very nice car.

It was dirty and that really made me pull the trigger.

It was just his confirming what my suspicions.

Yeah, and it's like just because it's dirty doesn't mean that it's not clean, right?

Which is a wild thing to think about and sometimes dirty cars actually end up being super clean.

Oh, for sure.

And it seems like in your case, that's kind of what happens.

So when you say like Killian found you two cars, so when when stat goes and inspects a carfor you, is there like a small inspection fee that you pay per time?

Yeah, and honestly, it's not as expensive as I would expect just because I think we're kindof jaded by the US market.

Yeah.

And how everything's crazy expensive.

I would have paid double of what he was willing to do for the amount of work he put into.

It's pretty impressive.

Yeah, because a lot of these guys, they take pride in it.

It'd be like, you know, me or you taking up an inspection job or something like that overthere, we'd be very thorough.

Oh, yeah.

And they really are.

They're showing me things and I'm like, yeah, okay, dude.

This is a 25-year-old car.

What do you mean?

And they just want you to know because they genuinely would want that, too.

Right.

And they're car people through and through.

Right.

You know, it's not their job.

It's like more of their like passion.

Yeah.

So like they move there for that reason.

Yeah, which is really what you find is some of the best guys like that did move therefrom, you know, like with Stack from New Zealand or, you know, my guy Trevor from the US.

They move there because that's truly their passion.

Yeah.

Almost shape their life around it.

Yeah, it's really cool.

So what, just give us a quick little rundown.

I'll have some video and pictures.

But what, so you get the EK9.

It's clearly what you were looking for.

And so where do you go from there because it was completely stock, right?

Yeah.

I mean, the only modification to have was some Cusco coilovers, which I wasn't mad at,you know.

But like the good thing about exporting it and then being so thorough with the process isthey give me time to basically stack the parts that I want while I wait on this part toarriving the United States.

So it's almost like using my impatience as a good thing.

Right.

Because you're almost mentally building the car.

Right.

Exactly.

And that kind of makes it a little more fun when it drops and you're like, okay, now Ican do that.

Yeah.

You don't have to wait on parts anymore.

You put it in the garage, you wash it and now it's time to go to work.

Oh, yeah.

And so you've traditionally been a guy that really has like a great, clean style.

And so I definitely expected nothing less when I see this car.

Just run me real quick through what you, what was on that show.

So basically I would spend nights zooming in on the photos that kill you and set me totry to figure out what I needed to replace.

And it's the obvious stuff.

It's the door moldings, the headlights, telelights, all the window moldings.

They're just old, 25 years old, you know.

And then I knew I wanted wheels.

So I actually went through three or four sets of wheels in my garage before I had the car.

Before the car even landed.

And then I just went and bought all the OEM stuff I could get through Honda because I knewthe time is coming that that's going to be discontinued.

Oh, for sure.

So I had to get as much stuff that was going to be irreplaceable as soon as I could.

But overall the car is clean.

I still have stuff left over that didn't use.

Yeah.

Right, that's always nice, right?

Like, did you end up having to swap out the emblems or anything?

No.

Wow, that's pretty good, really.

I mean, because 25 years old, usually you see that paint red.

Yeah.

So that means it wasn't in the sun its whole life.

No.

The only thing I noticed was the hood and the roof have been painted at some point inlife.

You never know, right?

That could be anything from a tree to whatever.

Exactly.

And Killian told me that before even got the car.

And that's important, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, maybe you don't love that that happened.

But like, you can settle with that considering how the rest of the car is.

But honestly, it made me feel better about I didn't feel like I was getting this museum piece.

You know, I could still do a little bit of touches and not feel guilty.

Yeah, because that is when you get these cars and they are in the type of shape thatyours is in, it really is hard to justify just hitting the road with it all the time.

Yeah, exactly.

And so the fact that you can get something that's definitely not even close to beat, butnot that like, damn, I can only drive it to shows type thing.

Right, right.

Yeah.

No.

So like I said, you traditionally been a guy with like this really clean style.

So I'm going to, you know, throw it back real quick.

So when you went by Nashville back in the day, this is like 10, 10, 13 years ago, right?

Yeah, about that.

When did you have that?

I had a six.

Oh, eight was the last time I was at import alliance with that car, which is crazy.

It's crazy.

It's 20, 20, almost the same spot.

Yes.

You know, and that is really what's awesome about being at this event, especially with allyou guys is like, we're like now at this different age level, but we're still like the samedudes like in the same stuff.

Yeah, literally, you know.

And you, you know, back in the way, you probably saw Richie's car.

It was a Red EG6.

It had lead sleds.

It had the spec to exhaust.

It had the status seats.

It was really at that time that car was really iconic.

You may not think so, but it really is.

If you say Red EG6 was lead sleds, they know the car.

They know the car, you know.

And I remember you came and picked me up over there in Madison.

We drove 10 or 12 hours.

That's right.

Yeah.

We went and traded that out with Gray Parker for right hand drive SIR2 EG6.

That's right.

Yeah.

And you guys traded it like it worked out.

I knew him from before.

I knew you hooked it up.

It actually worked out okay.

Yeah.

The car made it there.

The new car made it home.

That was really cool.

And that was a nice EG6 that you ended up getting there.

Yeah.

And then I had a new project like I knew what I was getting into.

I just wanted the right hand drive.

There's no explanation of why because I had a perfectly good car.

Yeah, you did.

Yeah.

It's just I wanted the iconic EG6.

Yeah.

And that was a good example.

And it's funny because we're driving this 10 to 12 hours and you're in status seats.

It's super uncomfortable.

No easy.

You look really good with a super uncomfortable.

And then to top it off, he's got the buddy club's back to exhaust.

So I'm like, hey Richie.

And it's just one of those things that you do as car guys.

You do whatever it takes to get to that next point.

Not even thinking just jumping the car and go.

Look about jumping in the car and go.

How do you feel that this stock B16B?

I mean, you've had plenty of other Honda's.

How do you feel about it?

You feel like it's healthy as strong?

Oh yeah.

Starts up every time.

No smoke.

And the thing that they even checked out in Japan, they're like, dude, this car is good.

They showed me a video of them pulling into the shop and revving it.

I wouldn't do anything like that.

They were abusing it, but it's what the car is made for.

No smoke.

It's just as healthy as clean.

Which is nice because that just gives you that confidence.

I'm going to have this thing.

I'm going to drive it.

I'm going to have no problems because you know how to maintain it.

Right.

And I even had the idea of picking the car up at the port and driving it to Nashville,which would have been about a 10 hour drive.

And I even asked Kylian, I was like, would you do this?

He's like, the car is healthy, I would.

Yeah.

So it's like that extra confidence that you need to like get in the car and go and I didn't,but I could have.

Yeah.

What did it come into Baltimore or New York?

No, actually, I chose Virginia.

Oh, that's called Newport News Virginia.

Oh, that's sweet.

It's the most fun to Nashville.

If I could do it again, I would choose a West Coast port because you watched the boatgo West Coast all the way around the United States to the East Coast.

Like, damn, I could have had it.

Oh, yes.

Right.

You could have just shipped it or picked it whatever.

Exactly.

That's your idea and think about that.

It goes down through the Panamanica and Allen's.

Right.

Yeah.

So that's a heads up to anybody.

If you are going to an East Coast port, you are waiting extra time because of that.

I mean, any advice, just look at a map like I didn't.

You know, you're looking United States.

Japan's to the left.

Yeah.

Well, you're going to get your car sooner if you choose a West Coast port.

Very true.

So we got to know, though, you know, you have a super clean EK9.

It's what you've wanted.

You went through the process.

What's next?

Is it more on that car?

Is it another car?

Is it simply just being like happy?

Yeah.

No, I think I'm just like fulfilled.

I'm content.

That's all I have.

Which I always used to say when I was younger, the contentment is a disease, but like,I am happy.

You know, I'm sure you get it.

Yeah.

I start in a car with X amount of money.

People always suggest we could have gotten.

This is my hot rod.

This is my dream car.

You know, it's all--Right.

Exactly.

Why get anything else?

Yeah.

And you have the very best, like the very best car to fulfill that, right?

Because it's not like you just like a Civic Type R.

Right.

It's not like you just like, you know, a 98 Civic Type R.

You like a black 98 Civic Type R with rega masters.

Right.

That are white and it pops so hard.

Right.

And the pre facelift.

Like, didn't want the facelift, so it's very specific.

If I had to go back again and tell myself, this is what I'm looking for, I'd never thoughtI'd find it.

Which is like you said, timing, right?

Like, like everything does kind of work itself out in that sense.

And just imagine if you were two weeks later or two weeks earlier.

Yeah.

So then you would recommend stacked.

100%.

Yeah.

And would you say the easiest way to get a hold of stacked is just go on the website andhit contact us or something?

Email.

Yeah.

I mean, you got to keep in mind the time difference.

Okay.

You send an email.

You're getting an email the next day.

Okay.

Right.

Because they're going to be 12, 13 hours different.

Yeah.

So just be patient, right?

That's like, and that's what I found is the easiest thing to do is once you know you'reworking with somebody good, just be patient.

Yeah.

Because they want you to get your car.

They also have to do their job and keep things moving.

Exactly.

So no more parts are going on the car.

As, as of right now, no.

I mean, I've got some suspension pieces on the way.

You know, you got to wait time for these things.

Of course.

But I'm trying to break it down now into more seasonal.

So like, I don't want to do the break the car apart, build it back up and then drive it.

I want to, you know, drive the car quite a bit.

And then, you know, when the weather gets bad, do some suspension.

Right.

So the next season itself.

Yes.

Exactly.

That way there's no downtime.

Exactly.

You never got an excuse to leave it in the garage.

It's just like a go.

Right.

And yeah, I applaud you for keeping it stock because so many people want to get a car likethis and just make it a conjo racer.

Right.

They just immediately want to do these things when it's like, let's step back and look atwhat you actually have here.

No, it's not a museum piece, but I'm to build that for a reason.

Yeah.

And even if you look at like the old school videos, like of them, I think his best motoringdid like a review when it first came out, like the accolades that car got in the commitmentthat people were just like stunned this car existed is insane.

Now, not by today's standard, yeah, it's nothing, but, you know, 25 years ago, a hand-built,hand-pot-port and polished engine.

It's pretty impressive.

Yeah.

I mean, and it really is.

And even today, I mean, you only find that on very high-end cars.

Right.

You know, I think the lowest-end car that that's done with is the R35.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't think they really do it with much less.

And we're talking about a Honda Civic.

Right.

Yeah, and the car really does something.

Yeah.

So, all right, man, well, we definitely appreciate you coming through.

It's always a pleasure kicking it with you.

You're definitely, as I'll say it again, you're a very uniquely stylish guy, and I can appreciateit when I'm here with you.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Awesome.

So, I'm Bobby.

This is Richie.

We're out of here.

Thank you.

So, that was dope, like kicking it with Richie and kind of just, you know, going through everythingthat he's been up to and was up to with that car.

Yeah, yeah, it was pretty cool.

And he spent some facts in there that I was, I wasn't aware of, like the black EK9sbeing such low production numbers on the paint.

And dude, as well as, you know, the shipping to a West Coast ports, you know, it's somethingthat we haven't talked about.

Yeah, you could tell.

I blew my mind.

I was like, oh, yeah, you know, you just got to look at a man.

Yeah.

When like, you know, I was always just thinking about the least transportation within theU.S.

and remember about the most expedited, like, shipping from Japan.

I also probably would assume that LA is like pretty busy.

Yeah.

Automatically.

You know, maybe still the time that it takes for that to go around the whole bottom of theUnited States is still way more than any shipping delay at port in LA.

So yeah, I mean, that was cool, right?

Yeah.

And I wish that he lived closer so that we could kind of have those type of conversationsa little more because he's definitely a really smart guy.

Yeah.

And that was the thing when you talked about back on the forum days, he always had his shitstraight.

Yeah.

And that's like, for real, like, he is a pretty smart guy and just really has always beeninto these Hondas.

So yeah, and has a ton of knowledge.

Yeah.

For sure.

Yeah, it was good to hear that he was back in the game, you know?

Yeah.

I think he, and he seemed like happy to be there.

Like, I do think that you'll see him more and more participating in probably some of thesmaller, smaller things, you know?

Yeah.

And yeah, it was cool to kind of take a little stroll down memory lane with him, you know,just because in something that we didn't actually touch on, but it was, so I went with himon that ride to get that right hand drive EG6 to St. Louis, right?

So it wasn't but like two, three months later, I asked him to come with me and I was goingto look at a integrity bar in St. Louis.

Yeah.

And I was going to be trading a, an Evo 9 with cash on top.

Yeah.

The guy was going to have cash on top like a bunch.

Right.

And we got there and the thing was, so he rode the, all those hours with me.

Yeah.

And then he said, "I'm going to be there."

And he said, "I'm going to be there."

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