Blast from the past SURVIVOR! 1984 Honda Prelude! One family owned since 1988! For SALE. 

Have you had to replace the engine or transmission or just regular maintenance?

@@user-hk9pn1iy8g it’s been well maintained and all original.

@@euroasianbob9268 um i have a 1997 acura tl would you say those are good cars? For bulletproof transmissions and engines?

My friend's mom had an '85si w/ the 4sp auto as her daily commuter to her office job as an executive assistant. My friend was driving an '86 Supra at the time, and his mom would borrow it whenever she needed to impress people (like her boss, who she would pick up from the airport or the repair shop several times a month). She used to complain about how we would return her Prelude smelling like weed (yes, she would stron-srm him into borrowing it sinve her name was on the note). As soon as he made enough cash to pay off the bank note, he traded the Supra in for a brand-new Miata, as soon as he could get his hands on one in '89, and his mom stopped borrowing his car. He gave her the opportunity to buy the Supra, but his dad (a machinst) looked up the price of a tune-up, and put his foot down. Many years later, I bought a '92 Prelude Si 4WS 5sp manual from a desperate seller on Craigslist. I did a lot of work on that thing, and had it running like a Swiss watch. I drove it to an electronics refurbishing job for about a year, and worked on it in my spare time. I had to sell it when I ran into a money crunch, but I'll probably get another someday soon (I've seen a few in my area driving around).

It’s my car

Do you know how popular these cars were in their day? Personally, I bought a 1990 Honda Accord Sedan LX 5 Speed Manual last year as my first car. I heard that those Accords used be everywhere, but I just don’t know how popular the Preludes were.

yea we had to push it down before entering the car wash

3rd gen Preludes had the 4WS. Great cars (SCCA buddy let me drive hers back when they were new, since I'd owned a 2G). I think they were from '88 to the early '90s. They looked really similar to the 2G cars, though. 'Evolution instead of revolution..' 😃

I thought about doing exactly that after video.

The Prelude was bespoke. Had its own chassis. Integra was based on the Civic.

@@stuffhappens5681 I didn’t say it had the same chassis. The Acura brand was formed from the need for a luxury brand from Honda. The Prelude was the test bed for that inception.

@@akshonclip I happened to own both a brand new ‘84 Prelude and a new ‘87 Integra. The Prelude was clearly a better driving, higher quality car. The Integra got better as time went on and the Prelude went away. Acura as a “luxury” Japanese brand got overshadowed by Lexus. Nowadays Acura’s lineup is mediocre at best and Nissan’s Infinity is all but dead.

The pleasure was all mine! Stay tuned!

Low cowls too

Yup. Plenty of tire options available. I sourced the ones on the car no problem.

Car Wizard whines about a lot of things.

@@joshuawick5382 that’s true to an extent, but he’s not wrong about it though. He’s honestly pretty fair about his assessments

"Can't sell for 2k". What kind of condition is it in? If it needs a resto, yea... It takes a special kind of person to take a project like that on when there's no parts availability. The people that would say they'd K-swap it or something. Body swap it wouldn't pay that much for it either... It's a hard place to be in. But I bet one in this kind of condition from the video. It should sell for quite a bit since the prelude does have a name... Maybe it won't sell for 15k. But I think it'll reach 7k, on a good day maybe 10k.

Yes

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It does not.

The Prelude is going to be auctioned on Cars & Bids NO RESERVE! I will send you a link when it goes live. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!