Racing History Company
Restoration
& Development
Program
We believe these cars deserve better than the junkyard. This is how we are saving them — and building something worth saving.
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Why This Exists
We are a lifestyle company.
The parts shop is our service to the people who build.
Racing History Company was not built to be a catalogue. We are enthusiasts first — people who have dismantled these cars down to bare metal, ordered every part, and put them back together. What we sell is a byproduct of what we know.
The 92–00 Civic and 94–01 Integra were economic choices when new. Affordable, widely adopted, and subsequently ignored by the premium side of the industry. Aftermarket support was massive — but rarely cohesive. Parts worked. They rarely worked together.
We think they deserve more. So we built this program to give them exactly that.
The Program
Four things we do that most shops don't bother with.
This is not a typical parts store. Every part of what we do was built to solve a real frustration — one we experienced ourselves.
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We Named the Parts
Honda's catalogue lists part numbers. Full stop. No description, no context, no size. We took hundreds of entries and gave each one a name, a function, and where applicable — thread pitch, head size, body length, and plug dimensions. So if you have a hole in your firewall, you can find the part that fills it. By name.
02
Inventory You Can Trust
We have all bought parts from a site that shows in stock, takes the money, and goes quiet. Weeks later, nothing. We stock what we list. We researched and rebuilt every chassis we sell parts for — we know what's needed, what's slow to source, and what to keep on hand. No bait. No holding your order while a backorder clears somewhere overseas.
03
Photography
Reference photos of OEM fitment, part placement, and restoration details — open to everyone. If it helps someone keep their car on the road, it belongs in the open.
04
Research & Development
Beyond restoration, we are developing parts that move these platforms forward. Billet over stamped steel. Interior components built to a standard these cars never received at the factory. A cohesive system — not parts from a dozen catalogues hoping they look right together.
The Build
Our 99-00 Civic Hatchback
proof of concept.
Every part we develop finds its home on this car. This is where the program exists in full — not in a catalogue, but on a real chassis, built the way we believe these cars should be built.
We look at each part and ask what it can become. The original material was chosen for cost, not capability. We remove that constraint — exploring whether a part can be improved through a different material, a different form, a different approach. Every change introduces tradeoffs we study and work through. Design is not applied on top of the engineering, it comes out of it. Across every component, that thinking stays consistent. The work is always ongoing.Chassis
EK — 1999 Civic
Colour
Nighthawk Black Pearl
Direction
Resto-Mod
Status
In Development
Engineering Direction
Not isolated parts. A system.
The aftermarket gave these cars a thousand options. We are working to give them one cohesive direction — built from a single design standard, start to finish.
Material Upgrades
Stamped steel brackets replaced with billet aluminium — saving weight, improving rigidity, and producing geometry that is precise by design rather than by press. Parts that happen to look better because they were engineered to be better.
Interior Development
These cars were built for economy. Interior material quality reflected that. We are developing components that address what the factory never considered — premium feel, intentional design, parts that elevate the cabin without breaking its character.
Cohesive Design Language
Every part we develop shares a design standard — the same surface finishes, tolerances, hardware spec, and visual logic. A shift knob, a bracket, a pedal — all designed with each other in mind. No more piecing together a car from a dozen brands hoping it holds together visually.
Keeping Cars on the Road
These were economy cars — well used, well loved, and well worn. Without the right parts and the right people paying attention, they quietly disappear. We are making sure that doesn't happen. Restoration, maintenance, improvement — whatever the car needs to stay on the road and stay in someone's hands.
"Restoration preserves the platform.
Development moves it forward."
This is a long-term commitment. We are investing in research, studying what has been done, and developing parts that take it a step further — closing the gap between what these cars were and what they can be.
