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Bought a Prelude about a year ago for my son, it was only when some idiot managed to drive into it at a roundabout and I had to find front end parts for it that I realized it was a bit unusual.
Front wing, front valance, headlights....all unique to a 91 INX. Managed to get everything secondhand apart from an indicator. Found this in Melbourne Australia.
So, does anyone else have one of these, seem to be Japanese domestic market only. Fully loaded with all options, 4WS, manual etc etc.
Not sure that now it's fixed (over a 1000 quid) said son can have it back. Mrs Caziques is getting quite attached to it.
Have to do 500 mile round trip to Queenstown in a couple of weeks to see Lynyrd Skynyrd, should I take the INX?
(Christchurch to Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand)
Front wing, front valance, headlights....all unique to a 91 INX. Managed to get everything secondhand apart from an indicator. Found this in Melbourne Australia.
So, does anyone else have one of these, seem to be Japanese domestic market only. Fully loaded with all options, 4WS, manual etc etc.
Not sure that now it's fixed (over a 1000 quid) said son can have it back. Mrs Caziques is getting quite attached to it.
Have to do 500 mile round trip to Queenstown in a couple of weeks to see Lynyrd Skynyrd, should I take the INX?
(Christchurch to Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand)
In a moment of madness I bought another Prelude INX a couple of weeks ago, it was only 300 quid.....
However actually getting it back home involved a plane flight, a bus trip, a ferry trip and seven hours of driving....
I live in Christchurch NZ, which is on the south Island of New Zealand - the car was 450 miles away on the North Island.
Up at 5am, fortunately the airport is only 15 minutes away - 45 minute flight to Wellington on the North Island - then my first bus trip in 25 years (6 hours) ending up at a tiny place called Patea about 3pm.
Handed the cash over, filled up with fuel...and set of back to Wellington (for the ferry), without looking too closely at the tyres. No MOT equivalent, no tax, no insurance (because it's not required).
After a meeting with a customer I got to the ferry for the south island about 10pm for the 1.30am sailing. Due to bad weather a couple of days before the ferry finally sailed at 5am - on the south island at 10am, back home at 2pm (250 miles).
A dream of car to drive. A days cleaning (I'm not fastidious but this was disgusting, luckily no smoking), four new tyres, three wiper blades, new MOT, bit of tax - and time for a business trip to Queenstown - 300 miles away (luckily a week later)
Off at 5am, in Queenstown at 10 - (all single carriageway roads). Left Queenstown at 4.30pm, took the Crown Range road to the vast metropolis of Wanaka to fit an underfloor heating thermostat. Superb twisty road.
Left Wanaka at 7.30, back home at 11.30.
Can't think of many cars to do such a journey in an still not feel too bad at the end.
750 quid in total, including all travel and tyres etc. A 25 year old car (no rust of course in New Zealand), so it doesn't matter too much what happens to it, and about 35 to the gallon.
Perhaps at 57 I should know better.
(I should mention this INX is the cooking version, auto (excellent) and no 4 wheel steer unlike my son's one)
more info here:
http://www.carsensor.net/catalog/honda/prelude_inx...
set your browser to translate japanese into english before clicking.
http://www.carsensor.net/catalog/honda/prelude_inx...
set your browser to translate japanese into english before clicking.
Never seen that before - very interesting, cheers!
Did do the Wanaka - Queenstown road some years ago, albeit in a hired Focus. Very nice bit of tarmac (as is the Lindis Pass on the way down from Twizel...may have got a little carried away there), and much quieter than the roads around C'church.
(How is C'church now, by the way...did the cathedral get repaired?)
Did do the Wanaka - Queenstown road some years ago, albeit in a hired Focus. Very nice bit of tarmac (as is the Lindis Pass on the way down from Twizel...may have got a little carried away there), and much quieter than the roads around C'church.
(How is C'church now, by the way...did the cathedral get repaired?)
Wanaka to Queenstown over the crown range road is much better than the other direction IMHO - would be perfect in an NSX !!
Was in Chch at the weekend - still a major building site. Cathedral is still in limbo - there is a temporary one made out of cardboard tunes, and a shopping mall (of sorts) made from 40ft shipping containers.
Was in Chch at the weekend - still a major building site. Cathedral is still in limbo - there is a temporary one made out of cardboard tunes, and a shopping mall (of sorts) made from 40ft shipping containers.
Edited by dobly on Thursday 27th March 23:52
Another drive out in the INX over the weekend, this time from Christchurch to Hokitika. With only 3000 inhabitants there isn't even a Subway - so the local Indian was visited.
Another excellent driving road through Arthur's Pass - if you like motorway driving don't come to the south island of New Zealand, there must be under a hundred miles of non single carriageway road in an area the size of England - and distances between fuel stations can be quite long.
INX faultless as usual.
Another excellent driving road through Arthur's Pass - if you like motorway driving don't come to the south island of New Zealand, there must be under a hundred miles of non single carriageway road in an area the size of England - and distances between fuel stations can be quite long.
INX faultless as usual.
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