Prelly Parade
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 5:43 pm
I'm going to be putting up a proper profile of my 5th gen 2.2 Motegi sometime this weekend when it's all cleaned up ready for Japfest and I can get some good pictures of it. This is my fourth Prelude though, so while I'm waiting to do that I thought I'd tell you about my history of them from 2nd to 5th gen, and how I've spent 20 of the 28 years since passing my test driving Preludes.
This was my first Prelude, a 2nd gen 1.8 EX. I wasn't looking for a Prelude when I bought it, but I saw it for sale and a friend of mine had once given me a lift in his mum's one and I was very impressed. Don't have exact dates but this would have been in the mid 90s.
Sadly the only shots I have of my second Prelude, a 3rd gen 2.0 EX were taken in the snow so you can't see much of it. It was a bit of a low spec one to be honest and I didn't have it that long. This was in about 2000.
This was my third Prelude, a 4th gen 2.3i and a much nicer car. Out and out the prettiest Prelude I have owned, just a beautiful car. The 2.3i was a bit of a different beast to the more popular 2.2 VTi, not quite as powerful, no Vtec obviously, it seemed to be a bit more of a cruiser than the racier 2.2.
Sadly, this is what became of it due to a drink driver in a country lane.
Out of the ashes of this (well the insurance money) I bought my current 5th gen in 2006. (this photo is from 2008).
It was a bit shinier in those days! Here's a shot as it is now, there's some cosmetic issues I'm in the process of attending to, some of which will be sorted before Japfest and some later. As I said before, when it's been prepped I'll take some better shots of it and do a full profile.
This was my first Prelude, a 2nd gen 1.8 EX. I wasn't looking for a Prelude when I bought it, but I saw it for sale and a friend of mine had once given me a lift in his mum's one and I was very impressed. Don't have exact dates but this would have been in the mid 90s.
Sadly the only shots I have of my second Prelude, a 3rd gen 2.0 EX were taken in the snow so you can't see much of it. It was a bit of a low spec one to be honest and I didn't have it that long. This was in about 2000.
This was my third Prelude, a 4th gen 2.3i and a much nicer car. Out and out the prettiest Prelude I have owned, just a beautiful car. The 2.3i was a bit of a different beast to the more popular 2.2 VTi, not quite as powerful, no Vtec obviously, it seemed to be a bit more of a cruiser than the racier 2.2.
Sadly, this is what became of it due to a drink driver in a country lane.
Out of the ashes of this (well the insurance money) I bought my current 5th gen in 2006. (this photo is from 2008).
It was a bit shinier in those days! Here's a shot as it is now, there's some cosmetic issues I'm in the process of attending to, some of which will be sorted before Japfest and some later. As I said before, when it's been prepped I'll take some better shots of it and do a full profile.
Love how each gen goes up in the performance list as well 
I had a MK1 MR2 and a Celica GT 
