I bought my 93 because my old full sized station wagon was on it's last leg. I wanted an SUV so that I could still have "hauling space" since I carried a lot of tools and band equipment around. I was looking in the $3000 range and couldn't find anything worth a damn, but they had the Pathy sitting there for $8000. Well, I had always liked the D-21 looks, so I test drove it. On the way to it the sales man hit the autostaart button and that sold it for my wife. I had a 91 Camery I traded in on it for $1500 and took out a loan for the rest.
As for the 88, I had been wqanting a 2 door since I bought the 93 and a guy I met on AC was selling one. It so happened that the Honda I wanted to get rid of was exactly like one he had had and wrecked. So we worked out a direct trade .