I found these pics of Convertible Preludes. They were made by two companies supposedly: Tropic Design and Honda-Autohaus Manfred Ernst, which are both German companies. Although they were made in Germany, Almost all of them were exported to either the US or Japan.

I was wondering if anyone knew if the convertible top mechanisms that were used came off of some other car or if they were custom made for the preludes? Either way, they are pretty interesting...

1st Generation Convertible: 47 were made.


2nd Generation Convertible: 100 were made.


4th Generation Convertible: 15 were made.


Source: http://wikicars.org/en/Honda_Prelude


Modified by ShankJDM at 2:31 PM 5/26/2007


Modified by ShankJDM at 2:32 PM 5/26/2007

 

i saw a pic of one when i first got interested in ludes..

 

Wow very lebaron...haha the 4th gen is ugly as a convertable.

 

that 4th gen look like it should have 13 inch Dayton wire wheels and hydraulics!!!!!
15 4th gens wasted IMO.

 

ugliest 4th gen i've ever seen.

 

Kind of neat... but hideous. Any pics with the top up?

 

hahaha looks very akward

 

Man, Im going to have to disagree with all of you. I think it compliments the body lines. I'd rock it.

 

i would like to cut my ludes top and make the roof like the supra on fast an furious just hit a button and it comes off

 

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How does that lump of top resting on the back "complement" the body lines? A convertible needs a longer trunk, if you took out the back seats and stowed the top back there it would work.

The convertible 350z looks weird for the same reason.

The fact that those wheels suck *** and that car isn't lowered isn't helping.....

 

Targa Top FTW.

 

x2 del sols are pretty sick when done up too
tagra top would do wonders i think too

 

That 4th gen looks a lot like a Celica now

 

eww NO.

 

the 4th gen is a conversion using a Cabrio

 

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+1, I'd imagine a targa top model would look better.

 

i've seen a pic of the 5th gen that was topless too but i forgot the the damn site. the 5th gen looks pretty good, nice and clean

 

its no S2000 by no means lol fugly lol

 

 

wow.. thats crazy.. lol

 

Ewwwww.

 

lol ill ***** with em..

 

1st gens don't look bad .. but i'm glad they didn't make too many of any of those

 

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I havent come accross any pics with the top up yet. I have saved a pic on my other computer which is a yellow 5th gen prelude convertible side view and it looks pretty cool but i am unsure if it is a real car or just a photoshopped pic. Once i get back to my house (im in vegas right now) i will post this pic.

Im sure there are more pics of these convertibles around because they were mostly sold in the use so if anyone can find any more pics, please share em, thanks.

 

id rock it, lol... too bad ive never ever seen one for sale