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Article: TEEN DREAM; 1982 Honda Prelude.(Escape Roads)
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- AutoWeek
- Article date:
- October 8, 2007
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Byline: ERIC TEGLER
Honda's first-generation Prelude seems an unlikely object of teenage reverie, but that's what this 1982 Prelude represents.
"I fell in love with these cars when I was about 14,'' Craig Brace enthuses. "I saw one and had no idea what it was.''
That means young Brace was dreaming about first-gen Preludes in 1994, by which time the car was in its fourth incarnation and soon to become an object of lust for the tuner crowd.
"To me,'' Brace says, "it's the classic Honda, kind of boxy and awkward.''
Honda introduced the Prelude in Japan in 1978 as a more indulgent alternative to its second-gen Civic and the new ...