Ok, since I'm attacking a Prelude at the moment I figured I may as well give it a page to show what I'm up to...
Here's the car that started my Prelude Chaos - as if I didn't have enough problems... though I'm too stubborn to give up once I've started. Or maybe it's just that the early Preludes are starting to stand out with their squat low-roof styling ...it just might take a while.
I'd first noticed this 1979 example parked near a friends house due to it's distinctive early CR-X wheels which are pretty rare here & I wondered about getting a set...
Several months later another friend rang me sugesting a family friend of theirs might have some Honda parts for sale, before they disposed of their daughters old car... Turned out to be the same car & since I figured I should pay 200 odd for the wheels & tires (as I had just paid for my Accords wheels), so I wound up driving the entire car home for little more -though rusty I could always use the drivetrain in my sisters Accord, though as an automatic I couldn't use much & I didn't consider it particularly desirable.
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I found an old road test of an American 'Solaire' convertible conversion completed on a number of these Preludes when new which got me wondering about converting & radically customising my rusty-roofed coupe. (It's also suffered a rear-end repair at some time - Shorten that as well ?) though I think it may be dissolving too quickly. 
Then I was offered this late 1980 example at a price that seemed too cheap to refuse, it wasn't as rusty but again was an ailing Automatic...
So I asked about another 1980 Prelude I had noticed very rusted, dented & long unregistered outside a nearby house, but a 5-speed.
-so I ended up with it as well for parts to convert the gold car to a manual transmission, though it turned out the gold car was an '81 model built late in 1980 so I ended up having to source an '81 shift linkage & flywheel for the conversion.. Honda had rebuilt the floor & linkage to give a shorter shift throw & revised the flywheel-crankshaft bolt sizes, (& also driveshaft splines) for the '81 models
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Then I found myself with yet another Prelude !
A second 1981 model in YR41M Longleet Gold with a cream interior just like my other one, but a factory 5-speed & with less rust & filler than that example... So I found it hard to resist when I found it at an abandoned vehicle auction destined straight for the wrecking yard or scrap metal unless I saved it... so for $300 it became mine. Distracting me from work upon the other example even though that was going well.
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Refer Page 2 for ideas to customize the curious Prelude styling
Refer Page 3 for conversion from Hondamatic to 5-speed manual.
Refer Page 4 for rust repairs to ex-hondamatic.
Refer Page 5 for Gold honda#2. -current project
Refer Page 6 for interior detailing.
