Junkyard Find: 1981 Honda Prelude

Remember how small the early Preludes were? It had been quite some time since I last saw one of these cars, so I was a bit startled by the diminutive dimensions of this example in a California self-serve yard. The first-gen Prelude was smaller and much slower than the versions that followed later in the 1980s; the '81 came with the same 72-horsepower engine as the Accord. Since the Prelude weighed just 2,130 pounds, 72 horses wasn't as cement-mixer-slow as you might expect… but you had to plan ahead when attempting to pass on a two-lane blacktop road. One of the best things about 80s Japanese cars was the unapologetically 1890-French-cathouse-grade red interiors you could get. This car had plenty of goofy style, something that seems to have been banished from the entire Honda line by about 1994. I was tempted to buy this clock, but I passed because I didn't have any means of testing it. I've learned that 99 and several more nines percent of mechanical-digital car clocks, even Japanese ones, don't work. from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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