I bought a 92 Honda accord this weekend. It was a week of grease and tools and man sweat under hoods. Strange, dark, mechanical purple lights blinking back from cracked plastic dashboards. Tried not to be femmy, gooey and lost when checking out old Hondas. Used car buying is not a time to be relying on the kindness of strangers. I kept my eyes keen and my hands steady at the wheel. In the 1800s, when buying horses, they used to grab the upper lip of the horse and curl it back to look at he length of the horses teeth. The longer the teeth, the older the horse. This is where the expression, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" came from.