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89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Thu Jan 09, 2014 8:38 pm

Nice one!

Where did you find it?

prelude91 · Post by **prelude91** » Thu Jan 09, 2014 9:50 pm

Welcome, you're old 3g looked really nice, where is it now?

rodanmk2 · Post by **rodanmk2** » Thu Jan 09, 2014 10:32 pm

The prospective one - I'll reveal all once it's mine!

The old 3G turns into a long story so get settled in.

I saw it advertised on ebay years ago. Terrible advert with hardly any detail some 250 miles from me.

Couldn't help it - always wanted one so put in a bid I could afford and somehow won it for £350

Hired a car, drove down, collected from the weirdest old guy I'd ever met. He'd bought it from a local guy who'd been trying to do it up for years but had given up. It had sat in a garage for years unloved.

Promptly drove it 250 miles home. Worked perfectly but a bunged up sunroof had meant that over the years a lot of water had soaked into the seats from a leaky garage. My jeans were soaked too by the M6 toll.

I got it home, cleaned it up, took out interior and spent about a week getting it clean and dry.

Had it for about 2 months but my Mrs hated it and it's days were numbered. She changed jobs a couple of weeks after and needed to buy a new car so I ended up selling it back on ebay for about £600 to a guy from Newcastle I think. He seemed happy enough about it and I never saw it again. This must have been about 5 years ago though.

It was solid, ran beautifully. I've regretted it ever since.

After that I've had a couple of company cars, a DC2 that I spent a lot on that then ended up being bought by a guy from France who exported it, an ST220 estate and most recently an S-MX Lowdown.

Always had a massive soft spot for Preludes. I've had a lot of cars, but there's just something about Ludes that brings me back. I think it's the fact that they're so underrated in what is a quite duplicitous scene on the whole.

I've spent a lot of time in the Honda scene - a lot of time with forums etc, did a bit of writing for a now dead Honda mag, started a stupid site and Facebook page (see my sig), met a lot of really good friends and had some great times. Still do.

I've been looking at Civics, Integras etc again recently but when you look at what you have to pay now even for a basic non R version, and take into account that there isn't much else to do that hasn't already been done a million times, and then you look at Preludes - there's not much contest unless you're a fool.

Some people will hate me for having this opinion but I'll say it anyway: I think the 4G in particular had a very popular time in the late 90s and early 2000s when the scene was very different and perhaps the way tuning went for them during that time made them seem quite dated and trapped in one particular style of look. That, for some reason, made people discount them. Maybe because there was a lot of garish kits that ruined people's perceptions of them as a base, or maybe just because it's always been cheaper to get a base Civic and to slowly do it up.

The US scene especially for Civics in the last 10 years has really started to take hold again and the UK is really catching up too. But it is really really biased to just a few models.

The Prelude is still underrepresented big time, and that's a real shame as when you do go to meets and see examples like Mart's and others you can see there is an incredible resurgence bubbling away that doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

I say it's a shame, but being honest it really isn't as it allows a very inexpensive way to get something with massive possibilities that when some properly is still stupidly good. 4s and 5s these days are ridiculously inexpensive and they can look so good with minimal changes really.

There's a lot of quality on this site. I've been lurking and I see it. Lots of properly nice cars and crazy amounts of info good info.

I've got a lot of reading to do!

Told you it was long. TL:DRs welcome.

Crazy_C · Post by **Crazy_C** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 12:35 am

rodanmk2 wrote:I've got a lot of reading to do!

The site has search functions. I just read all that, that was a lot of reading! Didn't really want to have the concept of another mans soggy jeans on the M6 toll in my thoughts as I lay in bed

The great thing about ludes, 4th and 5ths, is there's a lot of friendly banter which just makes it all a good laugh. Personally I've never liked 5th gens but I can appreciate a nice one. I only really like 1st, 3rd and late model 4ths.

Still, it was a 4th gen lude many years ago that made me even acknowledge Japanese cars (I'm an American muscle car fan at heart) so credit to the ludes for being able to convert someone who was of the opinion "if it ain't from Detroit, it ain't worth sh!te" for most his life

mart609 · Post by **mart609** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 8:44 am

WELCOME

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 1:48 pm

rodanmk2 wrote:Some people will hate me for having this opinion but I'll say it anyway: I think the 4G in particular had a very popular time in the late 90s and early 2000s when the scene was very different and perhaps the way tuning went for them during that time made them seem quite dated and trapped in one particular style of look. That, for some reason, made people discount them. Maybe because there was a lot of garish kits that ruined people's perceptions of them as a base, or maybe just because it's always been cheaper to get a base Civic and to slowly do it up.

I think most on here would agree with this summary as to why ludes get overlooked.

nb: Insurance on ludes is also more expensive than on a civic etc. Particularly if you have a jdm one, as that apparently gives them a license to rape you!!!

rodanmk2 · Post by **rodanmk2** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 3:18 pm

I actually want to encourage that assumption though as it keeps prices down for us on parts/cars etc.

Insurance - you're totally right too.

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:28 am

rodanmk2 wrote:I actually want to encourage that assumption though as it keeps prices down for us on parts/cars etc.

I agree with that sentiment, but I say some others would prefer to see Prelude's gain as much momentum and popularity as Civic's so that their cars/parts are worth more and so they're seen to be seen better in the scene..

I like being one of two or three 4th gen's in Cornwall, especially when there are piles of Civic's in every McDonalds.