I owned 2 Preludes from the 80s. A red 1983 Prelude {automatic}, and a red 1984 {standard}. I totaled the '83, and got an '84. Both transmission types were great and silky smooth. 63/37 weight distribution with FWD meant you PULLED yourself thru turns. And, for such a small car, the FWD and weight tilted on the front axle made it great in the New England snow. The rear bench was a joke, but I was always driving so whatever. The fold down arm rest was great for stowing skis for ski trips. The engine is 4 cyl/12 valves, but some auto writers of the day had the opinion that, with a pre-chamber for each cylinder, it was almost like a 16-valve engine. Fabulous car.

Hi, kyb 333177 kyb 333176. These are the part numbers for it in the KYB brand. In south africa we seem to still have some in stock on some sites. Hope it helps

There is stock in Europe for KYB brand. Around 100e per shock. I have sent it to you on direct. KZfaq is constantly deleting link to those shocks.

We had an 85 in a darker gray, five-speed manual. Had it for 275,000 miles and it still ran great when it was given to my brother-in-law but the back wheel wells rusted out badly. I saw a pristine navy Prelude a couple years ago at my doctor's office..it was a year newer with the four wheel steering. I have listed for another one. Love manuals and it was so fun to drive. That car was a joy and so reliable

What a jewel. I was in Atlanta several times in the mid nineties for training for my job and these things were everywhere! I'd say 50% of the cars I saw were preludes. Almost bought a four wheel steering one in the oughts. Couldn't give up my CRX's though. On my fourth one. 88Si.

They can't.

Stop, you'll make Elon cry

I'll buy one if it's like a Honda HRV and I can get it with a 5, or even better 6 speed manual transmission .

@@johnossendorf9979 Haha-

It's illegal! There is around $7500 in mandatory safety / electronic/ epa equipment required on new cars. We'd have to gut the EPA first.

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Under no circumstances!

Dont let a Woman drive it

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You don't drive.... with that low mileage. 2016 with 169,000 on here...

@@bsgarey It was my Dad's, parked in a garage for 2 decades. Guess he saved on it for me. Now teaching my daughter to drive stick on it.

nice

Lucky you

Still driving my '91 Civic Dx Red Hatch with 82k original miles! Swear! I was so curious if I was alone! I drive a 2002 Viper Gts and HANDS DOWN the World goes Crazy for 80's-90's Hondas! I'll NEVER SELL😎

Oh and it you wanted to know if the 4ws made a huge difference, answer is no it did not but you got street creed with the 4ws badge lol.

I noticed a difference (you commented on my earlier comment, which I replied to), At slow speeds when you turned the steering a lot to make a tight turn (like in the city or a parking lot), the rear wheels turned opposite to the fronts to help the car make a tighter easier turn, and at higher speeds when you only turn the steering wheel a little, the rear wheels turn the same direction as the fronts which helped high-speed stability. And it was so cool to watch the rear wheels turn one way and then the opposite direction when you kept turning the steering wheel while it was parked! Between that, and later VTEC, Honda was so ahead of the game

Hondas interiors used to be really nice

​@@mattl6584yep youd notice it when parallel parking or making an abrupt lane change on the highway but normal driving or corner carving in the twisties I didnt notice it.

​​@@elnyoutube123yep i now have a 2015 accord and 2016 odyssey, the interiors are noticeably cheaper than hondas of yore. My dads 03 CRV had the same high-grade quality as my 88 'lude, it was in the mid 2000s they started cheaping out. Same with Toyota.

Seinfeld has the best Hondas.

had a 86 Si 5 spd, fastest car i ever drove..135 mph ..200 rpm below redline in 5th, scared the crap outta me, never did it again

My friend had a prelude in early 90's and I remember how he was driving it redlining the engine all the time. Even in city driving he was pushing the engine to 4000-5000 rpm. I guess he liked the sound of it, the engine ran smooth.

@@Munakas-wq3gp Definately a quality build by Honda in those days and fairly cheap. It was the era when the Japanese manufacturers strategy was to buy US marketshare and were selling high quality products at a lower profit margins.

Yes, "Bulletproof", by Godsmack!

@@AB-jz9ns They were not cheap, look at the prices of them compared to American cars...pretty damn expensive relatively speaking. Worth the money if kept beyond the 200K mile mark though.

Very weird set-up. GM had a computer controlled computer in Cutlass Ciera which I bought in 1985 that did not have that many vacuum lines and relied more on idle control soleniod and various other sensors. For once, GM was more advanced, although their build quality sucked compared to Honda and Toyota. GM V6 in the 19980's was one of the worst engines ever built from a maintenance standpoint. Hard to change sparkplugs. My first and last GM car except for 1979 Buick Skylark which my Dad bought as a graduation from college gift. I think the Honda Accord was a much better car than the Prelude as far as maintenance and reliability. I don't know they mean, I just like playing with emoji's.

Yeah, but it works very well. No flat spots in acceleration, no hesitation when cold, engine is so smooth you can’t tell it’s running when looking at it except for the rotating pulleys. Lol.

it is but a Benz w123 is equally as frightening with its Vacuum hoses.

On a lot of these 80s Hondas people did Weber carb swaps to get around the vacuum system. You'd have to do more manual adjustment of the carb, but it reduced the vacuum line situation down to just 2 lines for brake booster and vacuum advance. The multitude of vacuum lines were almost all to adjust the original carb for different loads (like turning on the AC) and different weather conditions or stages of the engine warming up, and to control emissions. I have an 87 Civic wagon 2WD with that swap and it still runs beautifully that way and dramatically opens up the engine bay. Unfortunately it didn't come with half the original parts removed, so at this point it couldn't be brought back to stock without a donor, but I'd have a hard time saying goodbye to that Weber setup anyway. It's just so simple and clean and ridiculously easy to get to everything once swapped.

Common for the time period. A few of older guys still know how to diag and work on them. No OBDII port on these to gather information.

If you were old enough to see those on the road. Thats mean you are no longer young, danm time is cruel.

Now, in more modern times you would simply detach the metal key from your proximity fob ,.,., lock your glove box after switching the switch down and lock the floor switch and just hand over the fob only. Like anybody's valeting their Honda anywhere LOL

yes, but red in and out :)

That and the Japanese and even German cars marketed these features heavily when valeting your car so the valet driver can't get into your possessions.

San Francisco feature

@@thndr_5468 Dem-run city feature.

Example: www.koni-na.com/CorporateSite/media/itt/NA/pdf/boltstrut.pdf

Who knew? I sure didn't. Very cool.

I had bilstein's on my 77 Accord. Had to cut open the front struts and World on a threaded cap for the Bilstein insert. Worked great and much better than stock.

I was going to suggest the same thing. This was very common in Australia in the 80s to convert “wet” struts into housing that could take a replacement gas shock insert. Cut at the right spot, weld on the ring, and away you go.

Same here lol

1 broken vacuum line and the car wont idle or work...😅 Fuckin annoying i bet..

@@MeisterSchaft13isn’t that how all cars are lol

@@MeisterSchaft13 Not really, and it depends what the vacuum line is for. EGR valve? Will still idle smooth as silk.

Cleaner than Skeeter's peter!

I'm an old Honda tech from that era , I owned one for 200k , never had any major issues , the 4ws was never a problem either

@@JT-dx1qk No, can't say it's a problem - but I know that people don't fix it or disable it because it can feel strange (like the rear end is pushing - never bothered me and I know my uncle likes how nimble the car is with it).

@@nukedathlonman Always handled perfectly , never heard of anyone disabling it , I never would

A good friend of mine (whom I'm still friends with) in the 90s, had a 1985 Honda Accord stick shift lowered and straight pipe exhaust. I rode all over the place with him in that car. Brings back good memories.

I bought a used car once that done to it.

In our end of the woods they used marbles.

Ball bearings were common in Australia. Smart mechanics used ones that were slightly larger than the ID of the hose, and were almost undetectable. Dumb ones used huge ones so the vac lines looked like a snake that had just eaten a rat. Instant fail during the annual inspection…..

Been stockpiling parts for my 1984 Toyota SR5 truck for 22 years. You're basically 14+ years too late for most stuff by now.

I drove a '86 for years. The odometer quit working at about 300,000 miles, and I drove it off and on for another 10 years. I sold it to a coworker after a divorce because I didn't have anywhere to put it. I know that he was still driving it a few years ago. I still regret selling it.

That is literally your phone or computer spying on you.

That's how I'd feel! Wow!

The Preludes, especially the Si, were not cheap. I got an Integra in 1990 because it was a lot less expensive. The base Prelude was slower as well, nicer though.

two-point-two-yeah?

Believe yeah. Thing fockin flies yeah.

I agree, I have an 85 Prelude like the one in this video - but with that H22 2.2L VTEC motor swapped in :)

I also have a black,2001 Prelude 5 speed, leather interior in my garage right now. Just had the whole front end repainted and with brand new genuine headlights installed ,looks brand new. 175 thousand kms. I’ve had it since 2004 It was built on October 10 of ‘01 so it’s gotta be close to one of the last ones ever built I’m thinking. Hello from British Columbia 😊

Honda 1.5Ts blowing head gaskets at 80k miles now. They are just not made to last like before.

Same here...

JMO, the Hondas of that era seem to have more durable plastics and interiors than Toyotas of the same timeframe. Of course, this one has been properly babied and likely garaged (which is great).

@@NVRAMboipeople forget in the era Honda was beating Toyota in performance and quality

My ‘87 (GM) Holden has headlight flippers giving a semi-concealed headlight appearance and they still work flawlessly. It’s not just the Japanese who can make reliable mod-cons.

Yep, I had an 89 Nissan 240sx back in 00 and it already had huge rust holes in the rear rockers that entered the cabin. Those cars simply do not exist in the rust belt, even 20 years ago spotting one was ultra rare.

I do feel for the rust belt folks. Many a great vehicle has succumbed to years of road salt exposure.

Down here in Georgia I still see late 90’s Hondas and Toyotas pretty often. It’s rare to see anything as old as this Prelude though.

@@volvo09 Even Euro. cars

We're not all the Honda manual transmissions 5 speed in this era?

@@BurntOrangeHorn78 surprisingly no, there was a lot of Hondas that were produced both with automatic and manual transmissions.

@@mds2465 Oh yeah I know that, but my comment pertained only to the manual transmissions. The automatics were forgettable in the extreme.

@@BurntOrangeHorn78 at one point, my mother and both of her sisters had Hondas with automatic transmissions in the 80s. My mother obviously had the Prelude and her sisters both had Honda Accords.

@@mds2465 I remember the Accord had pop up headlights, but I liked the Acura Legend blended fixed headlights better among a few other things.

Obviously they didn't last forever otherwise they'd still be around today. I'm betting that many were scrapped because they failed emissions.

Or rust. Rust really got to these quickly. I don't know if they used thinner, lighter steel (or lower quality, more rust-prone), or if it was due to lack of rustproofing, but they sure did seem to rust badly.