Post a picture of your car here Part 4 (quote a picture, get a 24h ban!!)

CianDon · 18-10-2015 11:19PM

After a heavy night at a family wedding on Friday, the only right job to blow off the cobwebs and clear the head on Saturday was to take the wee Puglet for a run up the mountains. For a 1.1 litre, 20 year old city car, by god the handling would put a serious grin on your face.

Toyotafanboi · 18-10-2015 11:39PM

would love to know what the vehicle behind you in the last pic was up to. looks like the sort of yoke you see schleping bins around a shopping center car park that got wayyy out of it's depth and ended up in the mountains!

JohnBoy26 · 18-10-2015 11:46PM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

would love to know what the vehicle behind you in the last pic was up to. looks like the sort of yoke you see schleping bins around a shopping center car park that got wayyy out of it's depth and ended up in the mountains!

It's a quad bike.

CianDon · 18-10-2015 11:48PM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

would love to know what the vehicle behind you in the last pic was up to. looks like the sort of yoke you see schleping bins around a shopping center car park that got wayyy out of it's depth and ended up in the mountains!

Just a Honda TRX quad, or the Big Red as she's known, with a trailer full of turf. The young fella wasnt afraid to throw her very very sideways on the second hairpin

Marty McFly · 18-10-2015 11:48PM

Cracking looking road though.

Toyotafanboi · 18-10-2015 11:56PM

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

It's a quad bike.

cool

still, rather him than me!

vectra · 19-10-2015 12:37AM

YbFocus wrote: »

Here's one to unite us all

It was somewhat of a meet in spirit too!

I decided to copy FN's photo (badly)...

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/279499/365979.jpg

That seems to be a favourite place for pics.

Titzon Toast · 19-10-2015 05:47PM

I bought this on Sunday, it's one of the cleanest cars I've ever seen and it's got an amazing service history with every receipt and NCT cert up to it's current 96k miles.
I know it's gonna drink petrol and being a 2.2 it's a pig to tax but I don't care!
Life is short and I want to have some fun.

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LawlessBoy · 19-10-2015 05:50PM

Very clean prelude! Need to swap the alloys though they're facing different directions! Well wear

Titzon Toast · 19-10-2015 06:17PM

LawlessBoy wrote: »

Very clean prelude! Need to swap the alloys though they're facing different directions! Well wear

I never noticed that, my OCD will drive me mental now until I've fixed it.
Thanks for the head's up.

robbiew · 19-10-2015 06:21PM

Well wear tt

bbari · 19-10-2015 06:48PM

Titzon Toast wrote:

I bought this on Sunday, it's one of the cleanest cars I've ever seen and it's got an amazing service history with every receipt and NCT cert up to it's current 96k miles. I know it's gonna drink petrol and being a 2.2 it's a pig to tax but I don't care! Life is short and I want to have some fun.

I saw a same one in Lucan on Sunday morning. I had a Prelude for couple of years till i became daddy. My all time favourite. All the best

Wibbs · 19-10-2015 06:51PM

'Kin sweet Honda TT! *thumbsup* and it's a minter by the looks of it. Very nice.

Autosport · 19-10-2015 07:20PM

Best of luck with the new motor, I like the houses

GvidoR · 19-10-2015 07:54PM

Nice Prelude.

I don't what you were doing with the number plate, it's still clearly visible. :P

Titzon Toast · 19-10-2015 08:47PM

GvidoR wrote: »

Nice Prelude.

I don't what you were doing with the number plate, it's still clearly visible. :P

I don't know what I was doing there either tbh,
I've seen other folk blanking there's out so I thought I'd try the same (badly) for some reason.

Sure how many people see your reg when you're just driving around anyway?!

I'm delighted with the car so far, I like fact that it's completely stock. The temptation is there to do one or two small things here and there though.

Quazzie · 19-10-2015 09:10PM

CianDon wrote: »

After a heavy night at a family wedding on Friday, the only right job to blow off the cobwebs and clear the head on Saturday was to take the wee Puglet for a run up the mountains. For a 1.1 litre, 20 year old city car, by god the handling would put a serious grin on your face.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5622/22098719490_184bd6c87a_c.jpg

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https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5733/22286737245_ef619c0f45_c.jpg

Where is that Cian?

chriity139 · 20-10-2015 09:48AM

Lovely prelude. They are a cracking car

Wibbs · 20-10-2015 10:44AM

Titzon Toast wrote: »

I'm delighted with the car so far, I like fact that it's completely stock. The temptation is there to do one or two small things here and there though.

Stock is good. If I was doing anything I'd make it easily reversible. OK Preludes didn't suffer the drove through Halfords covered in glue of other Hondas like the Integra or especially the Civics. They were a more "adult" car, but I'd reckon there are precious few left in the stock condition your beauty is. I reckon we'll look back at that period from say the mid 80's to say 2000 as a real peak in car design and production. That sweet spot between unreliability/more hands on and the push a button for "soul" of the cars since then.

Marty McFly · 20-10-2015 10:51AM

Wibbs wrote: »

Stock is good. If I was doing anything I'd make it easily reversible. OK Preludes didn't suffer the drove through Halfords covered in glue of other Hondas like the Integra or especially the Civics. They were a more "adult" car, but I'd reckon there are precious few left in the stock condition your beauty is. I reckon we'll look back at that period from say the mid 80's to say 2000 as a real peak in car design and production. That sweet spot between unreliability/more hands on and the push a button for "soul" of the cars since then.

I think the reason Preludes weren't as molested as Civics and Integras is because they were a 2.2.

Most people's cut off in Ireland is and was the 2.0 tax

Special Circumstances · 20-10-2015 10:56AM

Marty McFly wrote: »

I think the reason Preludes weren't as molested as Civics and Integras is because they were a 2.2.

Most people's cut off in Ireland is and was the 2.0 tax

Not just that they were a 2.2, but that partly because there was no "1.6 granny spec on de logbook" version that they could be taxed and insured as with a little bit of cute hoorism.

LawlessBoy · 20-10-2015 06:33PM

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Not just that they were a 2.2, but that partly because there was no "1.6 granny spec on de logbook" version that they could be taxed and insured as with a little bit of cute hoorism.

Theyre really starting to clamp down on that now too, local lad i know is after getting a ban because of it. Dropped a b16 into a 1.4 civic and was banned because of it when he was stopped.

rizzodun · 20-10-2015 07:02PM

LawlessBoy wrote: »

Theyre really starting to clamp down on that now too, local lad i know is after getting a ban because of it. Dropped a b16 into a 1.4 civic and was banned because of it when he was stopped.

Serves him right too, just pay the tax and insurance or suffer with a 1.0 micra and be happy you can leave the house.

Jesus. · 20-10-2015 07:11PM

LawlessBoy wrote: »

Theyre really starting to clamp down on that now too, local lad i know is after getting a ban because of it. Dropped a b16 into a 1.4 civic and was banned because of it when he was stopped.

How'd they know what engine he had?

Duke O Smiley · 20-10-2015 07:13PM

THE GOVERNMENT WILL NEVER KNOW HOW MANY VALVES I HAVE UNDER MY BONNET

*adjusts tinfoil hat*

LawlessBoy · 20-10-2015 07:20PM

Jesus. wrote: »

How'd they know what engine he had?

Havent a clue dont speak to him personally was common knowledge though that it wasnt a 1.4

Donnelly117 · 20-10-2015 11:14PM

Jesus. wrote: »

How'd they know what engine he had?

Happened across a guard who knows his Hondas perhaps?
Not an unreasonable request to pop the bonnet if your so called 1.4 civic is caught hauling ass is imagine?

Foxhole Norman · 20-10-2015 11:47PM

Jesus. wrote: »

How'd they know what engine he had?

Quite a considerable difference between a B16 and a regular 1.3/1.4 in a Civic, for one, VTEC.

JohnBoy26 · 21-10-2015 12:59AM

Jesus. wrote: »

How'd they know what engine he had?

I'll take a guess here but I think they might of opened the bonnet

1.4 d series

1.6 b16

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LawlessBoy · 21-10-2015 01:54AM

True its not hard at all the tell the difference

Post a picture of your car here Part 4 (quote a picture, get a 24h ban!!)

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