Yah, if you do autobody, I guess it's natural to do it to your own car after doing it to 400 Soccer-Mom minivans when they backed into poles and their garage doors
Civics (and Hondas in general) with mods, especially flashy ones, are targets in general, by both good and bad guys. Cops and thieves. I've seen a Civic race a Mustang GT and the cop only pulled over the Civic, even though the Mustang kicked it's ass and was doing at least 100 when they passed the speed trap, Civic was probably at 85.